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Residents warn CRA against banking government campus on Brightline, urge caution on P3 deal
Summary
Residents told the Boca Raton CRA on Dec. 1 that the proposed government campus relies heavily on a Brightline station and warned that public-private partnerships (P3s) are not always appropriate; speakers urged the agency to avoid deals that shift public value to private partners.
John Perlman, a Boca Raton resident, told the Community Redevelopment Agency that a planned government campus is being sold on the promise of a Brightline station and urged residents to view an advocacy film at saveboca.org.
"BrightLine is failing very rapidly as a company," Perlman said, citing what he described as Bloomberg reporting that one Brightline bond was trading "around 29 and a half cents on the dollar." He added that Brightline deferred an interest payment on $1,200,000,000 worth of bonds and said…
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