The first group to announce a bid for the huge Starrett City development is a community-based one made up of the Christian Cultural Center, the Central Labor Council, and the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. They say the goal is keeping Starrett City affordable. The bid is said to be “well below” the $1.3 billion bid last year that failed after it created a firestorm of opposition because of the threat to affordable housing at the complex.–Crain’s