[CHANGING BROOKLYN] Disarmed! Besmirched developer backs out of Crown Heights armory project

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt has laid down its armory!
The embattled developer tapped to turn Crown Heights’ Bedford-Union Armory into housing has backed out of the project, apparently bowing to pressure from the city following revelations about its involvement in a scandal surrounding the sale of a Manhattan nursing home it plans to convert into luxury condos.
Slate Property Group sold its firm shares in the project to minority partner BFC Partners la