The new NBC Universal HQ is too big for a parking lot

In The Times' Sept. 28 article, "Battle rages over studio-office project near Universal Studios," you paint a picture of developer Jim Thomas as a misunderstood hero who is single-handedly trying to save the entertainment industry and revive our local economy, walking door to door to help a community understand that he has their best interest at heart as he tries desperately to build his greatly opposed project at an MTA parking lot near Universal Studios. Nothing could be further from the truth, and his recent door-to-door walk is just the latest effort in a continuing campaign to push a truly bad project down the throats of the community, the taxpayers (who own the MTA site) and City Hall.

By Roy P. Disney, Richard Bogy, Terry Davis and Krista Michaels

October 6, 2008