Bridgeport-based developer Manny Moutinho has a history of bidding low and billing high. The latest from Brian Lockhart, CT Post:
Developer Manuel “Manny” Moutinho was going to spend $200,000 to build a driveway through city property to his waterfront mansion in Stratford. Then Bridgeport offered to pick up the tab, and Moutinho’s price doubled to nearly $400,000.
Last year, Nick Owen, Moutinho’s representative, told both Stratford’s Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission and the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals that the driveway would cost about $200,000.
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Manny Moutinho … Nicky Owen … John Ricci.
Tom Bucci, Joe Ganim, John Fabrizi, Bill Finch, Adam Wood, Andy Nunn, John Stafstrom … on and on and on and on and on and on.
Endless, isn’t it?
This just goes from bad to worse. Meanwhile, the Mayor and the rubber-stamp City Council pretend nothing has happened. Only in Bridgeport.
I want to be sure I really understand this–he and the other owners need access to the Airport Property to get to their property, and because the access needs to be changed the owner pays, and not the person who has been granted the right of way. Don’t these agreements usually put the burden on the right-of-way party if circumstances change?
CG, not when you’re part of the Finch team. Can you say Grand Jury time?
If the city had cause to reroute the access to accommodate the expansion plans, then the city is obligated to pay to provide access to the homeowners. We taxpayers have a reasonable expectation the cost to do that work would be further reasonable and customary and consistent with a bidding practice. John Ricci and Manny thought otherwise. Shame.