The redevelopment of the Grand Bouet Estate is due to be completed in 2013 and the first residents are expected to move into the new extra care housing at Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue in 2014.
The salvation of the theaters of the former Great White Way was always a promised but ambiguous add-on to the state and city's large-scale redevelopment schemes for the Times Square area, clearly secondary to the size of the real estate deals to be made.
Driscoll, a real estate developer and CFO of O'Neill Properties, Eastern Pennsylvania's largest redevelopment company, ran as a fiscal conservative, stressing plans to create growth in the Lehigh Valley.