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Alex Marshall
From:Angel Wang <anjianw@gmail.com>
Sent:Friday, August 14, 2020 10:59 AM
To:Alex Marshall
Subject:900 Question
How do you make sure all these units will be rented out? After COVID, the whole view of the world changed. I believe
that the project needs to be reevaluated and altered to be more in line with the current reality.
My parents in their 80’s moved in to my house since this March due to my concerns over the COVID. Their small senior
center in queens lost about 6 seniors out of 96 full time residents later on. We are blessed with our decision, and we
just cleaned up their apartment in queens last weeks. My parents are with my family now, and they want to look for
even smaller and max two floor’s facility in the future. Most likely we will look into buying a bigger house with separate
entrance to keep them with us. Couple of my friends had made the similar choices as mine.
This historic pandemic has taught this world a lot, and changed quite a lot of People’s life style. I was shocked that our
town is still going fully with this unpopular project. Have any of you thought about what if? What’s the chance that you
are rebuilding another empty building? Why do you want to put the most vulnerable age group in such a massive setup
environment again? How can you not learn the lesson from the nursing home tragedy acrossed the nation especially in
NY during this pandemic?
I know money speaks, and tax is important to any town, but only a good business planning can bring that. From this
recent zoom meeting, the developer showed us how unprepared they are, and how little they know about the real
world of the assistant living. From parking to staffing to EMS needing to shuttle serving etc, none of these questions are
really thought through in developer’s proposal planning book. There are so many key points from this 900 project are
out of touch. Any national guide line is only for reference, spending time doing more local cases studies and analysis will
make them sound more reliable and convincing. Making a senior assistant living facility is mainly to make money is so
wrong from either builder or town’s aspects. Bad idea at the beginning will not bring in profit to anybody by the end.
Our town has been struggling with 900 for a long while, so please make sure you really and truly evaluate this project as
you are the one of the potential customers there.
Thanks
Angel Wang
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