Updating a story we last posted Jan 29, 2013 regarding Forest City Ratner’s 32-story modular housing project in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, two trade unions have sued to block the project. The Mechanical Contractors Association and the Plumbing Foundation allege Buildings Department Commissioner Robert LiMandri sidestepped a promise to use only licensed master plumbers and fire suppression contractors on the project, after being pressured by the developer. As the nypost informs MHProNews, LiMandri allegedly withdrew a draft citing the agreement with the unions.

(Image credit: SHoP Architects–Atlantic Yards modular housing project)