Refer to The Express-Times article, published on August 10, 2007, and titled “Lawsuit threat won’t deter Riverwalk bids.”

The Riverwalk project is patently racist.  When former world heavyweight boxing champion Easton resident Larry “the Easton Assassin” Holmes, an African-American,  built two new buildings in downtown Easton’s flood plain, the city required him to fill in the building sites, raising them above the flood level, and also to construct the buildings without basements that would be subject to flooding.

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The city of Easton, Pennsylvania, its parking authority, the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA), and developer Arcadia Properties are withholding from the public the truth about the Riverwalk project - a project that has prompted Pennsylvania Riverkeepers and the American Littoral Society to seek an injunction in federal court to stop the project from proceeding, as described in the August 10, 2007, edition of The Morning Call newspaper.

The Riverwalk project site was recommended by the Easton Area Industrial Land Development Corporation (EAILDC), whose chairman is Andrew Dobb and who was the project manager for the city of Easton’s 33-year-old parking garage located at the intersections of S. 3rd, S. Bank St., and the 300 blocks of Pine and Ferry Sts.

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