by Travis Mateer
Philadelphia, Long Island and Missoula have something in common. What could it be? That’s right, all three locations have development projects financed by the Rockefeller Group being built in their communities.
Here’s the Missoulian describing the Missoula project:
A large national property developer is in the first stages of building a $40 million, 203-unit high-end apartment complex in the South Hills neighborhood of Missoula.
Rockefeller Group, a nearly 100-year-old company based in New York that constructs, owns and manages real estate across the country, is building a development called the Pine Apartments at 5001 Hillview Way in Missoula.
It’ll be part of a larger housing development called Wildroot.
Isn’t this wonderful? Sure, a slow replacement of Missoulians by those who can afford the skyrocketing cost of housing might irreparably change the fabric of this community, but who is going to stop it? Face it, Missoula, other people want this place for themselves, and if they have the money, then they can buy it.
Here’s more from the article showing how done this place is for those WITHOUT deep pockets (emphasis mine):
“With Pine at Wildroot, Rockefeller Group is expanding our residential portfolio to Montana, one of the nation’s top 10 states for population growth,” said Dave Klebba, managing director for Rockefeller Group’s Rocky Mountain region. “Missoula is consistently regarded as one of the most desirable places to live in the country and given our project’s proximity to the University of Montana, combined with the increase in population, we are confident that this project will be very successful.”
See? People with money want to live here, and the Rockefeller Group is more than happy to oblige these NEW Missoulians with a trendy place to call home.
If you don’t like what is happening to Missoula I have a simple question for you: what are you going to do about it? Nothing. That’s what you’ll do, Missoula. How do I know you will collectively do nothing significant to stop the transformation of Missoula into an elite enclave for the deep pocketed people? That’s an easy question to answer, but instead I’ll use a picture.
Yes, a community that allows a man to be euthanized by the Sheriff’s Office, and then doesn’t bat an eye when his alleged assailant is shot in the back by that same Sheriff’s Office less than a year later, is NOT a community that is capable of dealing with the reckoning that would come by acknowledging what happened to Sean Stevenson. So Sean’s death is ignored, and Johnny’s death is ignored, and this town just goes about its business like it’s NOT a hotbed of misery and violence for those without the money to thrive in Zoom Town.
No, the important people in Missoula are too busy celebrating our County buying a mountain, and if there’s scrutiny about official narratives, it’s more than likely directed at locations, like Holland Lake, and not people, like Sean Stevenson.
To back up this claim, here’s the Holland Lake people scrutinizing the claims of water quality by the Forrest Service:
On Monday, Save Holland Lake, a Condon-area nonprofit, reacted with skepticism to Forest Service reports of finding no groundwater contamination from the sewage lagoons that serve the Holland Lake Lodge and campground. They say a delay in testing produced results that probably didn’t reflect the contamination that occurred several weeks ago.
“We were given a number of excuses why this was delayed and didn’t happen,” Roberts said in a release.
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In the Flathead Forest release, DEQ Water Quality Division Administrator Lindsey Krywaruchka is quoted as saying, “DEQ appreciates the Forest Service’s coordination and response through the process and we are pleased the samples showed no contamination of ground or surface water.”
But Save Holland Lake is not pleased, because the Flathead National Forest told their people something slightly different during a meeting on Wednesday.
If this level of scrutiny was applied to the narrative that Sean Stevenson was attacked by only ONE person in the men’s dorm of the Poverello Center, then maybe the Stevenson family wouldn’t still be in the dark, nearly 4 years later, about HOW their family member acquired bruises all over his body. This simply isn’t possible if the ONE person who assaulted Sean only choked him out, as claimed by law enforcement.
If Sean Stevenson was a lake where rich white people recreated, then the false narrative about his death wouldn’t be allowed to stand, but Sean is NOT a lake, he’s a dead human being with a family that deserves REAL answers about how he was rendered unconscious inside the men’s dorm of the Poverello Center.
Soon I’ll be moving into a new phase of bringing attention to what’s happening (and not happening) in Zoom Town, and that new phase will have a new blog to accompany it, so stay tuned!
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Thanks for reading!