Mark Harrington

Here in the US, developers exercise the caveat emptor principle
to the extent that they are quite certain of their development
prospects (through discussions with local officials and planning
and zoning boards) prior to purchase. Our firm regularly does
planning layouts which are somewhat speculative. If the owner
gets positive reaction to the concept, he will buy the land.
So I just assumed that Manor Park had some concept proposal
on the books more or less and that their proposal had garnered
some local political support. If so, then to raise this ruckus over
Ms Haughey’s proposal seemed quite hypocritical.

Thanks for the enlightenment, that’s quite a gamble by Manor
Park, then.