One Hanson
Magic Johnson’s investment company, Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds, partnered with the Dermot Company to convert the Brooklyn clock tower into luxury condominiums. Renamed One Hanson Place, the Williamsburg Savings Bank building is a landmark that has stood as a symbol of pride for the borough of Brooklyn.
But the developers shouldn't be proud of their treatment of workers in the building.
Unlike other luxury buildings in New York, the workers who keep One Hanson Place running don’t have access to affordable health care for their families. They are also being denied the pension benefits and job security other luxury building workers receive.
Magic and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
Magic, Where's Our HealthCare in the News
Crain’s New York Business
Union protests Magic Johnson condo building
“SEIU Local 32BJ is calling on the ex-basketball star to give better health benefits to workers at the luxury condominium building he owns in downtown Brooklyn.
The building service workers union put a full-court press on Magic Johnson Monday, launching a Web site to protest the former NBA basketball star’s use of non-union labor at a Brooklyn condominium building owned by his investment company”
TMZ
Celebrity Justice: Magic Johnson Accused of Ignoring Health Issue?!
Gowanus Lounge
Fun Vid: Worker Confronts Magic Johnson About Health Care
New York Magazine Daily Intel
Magic Johnson Dogged by Worker on His Fort Greene Condo
Real Deal
Union protests One Hanson Place with Web site
Curbed
CurbedWire: The Sound of Discord at One Hanson, More Fun About Development in North Brooklyn
Brownstoner
Residents of One Hanson Greeted by Friendly Union Members & Workers
Brownstoner
Union-Free One Hanson Place: The Website