Monday, June 14, 2010

Destiny USA-Boomtown to BUST!!!

So where did the vaunted Destiny Project go wrong? Was it one promise to far? Or was it a pipe dream from the very start. Clearly the entire CNY community was energized at the prospect of such a huge development coming to our hometown. Many people, politicians, businesspeople, everyday locals, all felt the sweetheart deals given to Bob Congel would end up netting little of the promise of Destiny. There is little argument that the project has been mired in legal wrangling for over 2 years with no direction and no action taken at the site. What is less clear is the future of the project as a whole. Clearly a new economic reality has taken the world by storm. The Great Recession has caused many an entreprenuer to recalibrate his or her vision for the future and Destiny is just another project in a long line of corporate excess and over reaching that has defined the last 2 years. Destiny for all its promise, its vision, it granduer is effectively dead. Caught in the halls of courtrooms both state and federal and destined to be tied up in legal brinkmanship for the foreseable future leaving an entire community to ask-if not Destiny then what, and if not now then when? You see CNY has lost its traditional manufacturing base with its good paying jobs...its young educated offspring have moved on and out of theri hometown in search of actual opportunity, not the illusion of opportunity.

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