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.

The city of Easton and its parking authority, the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA), and the Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) have extended preferential treatment to Riverwalk developer Arcadia Properties and its CEO Richard Thulin, a Caucasian, by relieving him and his corporation of the remediation requirements imposed on Larry Holmes.