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Article: New Jersey Meadowlands Authority Selects Mills/Mack-Cali Redevelopment Plan.
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- February 13, 2003
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By John Brennan, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--Mills Corp. executive Edward Vinson says his company's $1.3 billion Meadowlands joint venture with Mack-Cali Realty Corp. will be "the most exciting family entertainment destination in the country."
Ray Bateman, a member of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority board, had a less flattering name for the Xanadu project: "Gridlock City."
But on Wednesday, most members of the authority's board decided that they preferred Vinson's vision to Bateman's fear.
So in a 9-2 vote -- with one abstention -- the board voted to give ...