The $250 million Belleayre project, one of the largest proposals in the Catskills in decades, would include 400 hotel rooms, a conference center, several restaurants and hundreds of housing units on more than 500 acres of mountainside flanking the state-owned Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in the town of Shandaken, in Ulster County.
The larger proposal is not merely "unformed," as you suggest.
If the larger proposal is passed, Montefiore will lose $100 million a year in revenue, or $1 billion over 10 years.
Outright opposition from Brown could prove politically damaging for the larger proposal.
However, a White House spokesperson said business owners of more modest means would see a reduction in their taxes because of changes to personal rates under the larger proposal.
The larger proposals, like adjustments to the way the Army Corps of Engineers controls the Mississippi River, are more ambitious.
In a statement, Disney called the tentative agreement its "largest proposal ever" and the raises "industry-leading wage increases". The contract would cover 38,000 Disney employees represented by a group of local unions known as the Service Trade Councils Union.
With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, supporters of a proposed $3.8 billion transportation bond act, by far the largest borrowing proposal in New York State history, have begun a television and radio advertising campaign to urge voters to approve the measure.
Spruce 1 started as the largest single proposal ever for hilltop mining, in which mountains are carved off to expose coal seams and much of the debris, often leaking toxic substances, is placed in adjacent valleys.
As a result, the forthcoming Trump budget is likely to represent the largest Robin Hood-in-reverse proposal from any President in modern U.S. history, shifting substantial amounts of income from people of modest means to those who already possess enormous wealth.
