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2006-12-22 International-UN-NGOs

Price-tag of UN renovation soars to $1.9 billion

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Posted by tu3031 2006-12-22 10:38|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Six freakin' years?

Let Trump handle this, in between Rosie tirades, of course...

Posted by Raj 2006-12-22 11:30|| 2006-12-22 11:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump said a couple years ago that he could do the whole job for $300 million. I'd get him back and see what the job costs today, and make him the general contractor.

Of course, my first thought would be to tow the whole mess into Long Island Sound.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-12-22 11:36|| 2006-12-22 11:36|| Front Page Top

#3 No, Steve. New York City's rivers have become a lot cleaner in the last 20 years. We don't need to backslide.

Still, John Bolton was right.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-22 12:02|| 2006-12-22 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I bet we could contract to move the whole UN to Paris for a helluva lot less than $300 million.

Then sell the building to a local developer who can make money renting out apartments/offices.

It's a win-win. No foreign terrorists/socialists on our shores and the lucky bidder gets to create jobs.

Let's do it!

Posted by badanov 2006-12-22 12:56|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-12-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 It's hard to do a job bid sight unseen, but I'm pretty sure I could build them a new building for a hell of a lot less than $1.9 Billion.

Posted by bigim-ky 2006-12-22 12:57|| 2006-12-22 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I think move them to Brussels, that way they can smooze the EU guys at the same time.

Posted by bigim-ky 2006-12-22 12:58|| 2006-12-22 12:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Amen, where do I get to bid on en entirely new building? I will take off $500 Million and give them a brand new building. Think about it.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-12-22 12:59|| 2006-12-22 12:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Price-tag of UN renovation soars to $1.9 billion

hey, 1 billion of the 2006 price is already cut up between the 5 families, wait for the discoveries, change orders, add orders, strikes, inflation, and pol fees.

Posted by RD 2006-12-22 13:06|| 2006-12-22 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 I always said to place it in the center of the largest mass-grave in Iraq - I'll add to dedicated it to Koffi Annan.

Either that or Tel-Aviv. I think that might give the UN an incentive to prevent Iran from getting the bomb. If nothing else it will give Israel warning - when the UN rats and vermin starts leaving its time to look out for incoming.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-12-22 21:51|| 2006-12-22 21:51|| Front Page Top

#10 At 1 million square feet, that's $1900/s.f. for a renovation. Even gutting the wiring, plumbing and HVAC, commercial renovations are done for 10% of that price.

Posted by ed 2006-12-22 22:05|| 2006-12-22 22:05|| Front Page Top

#11 This story doesn't mention it, but the UN wants the US to front the entire $1.9 billion at 0% interest. I give high odds that if any leader is stupid enough to do it, the US taxpayer will pay most of the bill.

Posted by ed 2006-12-22 22:22|| 2006-12-22 22:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't give the bastards a f*cking dime.

If they're so anxious to renovate their building, let them use all the money they've scammed and skimmed from various operations.

Koffee and his son should be able to finance it all by themselves, with plenty of ~~illegal swag~~ money left over. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-22 22:23|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-22 22:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Barb! yer on a roll! LOL

Posted by RD 2006-12-22 22:42|| 2006-12-22 22:42|| Front Page Top

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