 the best money is other peoples money just like flowers need rain and sunshine  property developers need other peoples money  the vacant spot where the old city market once stood could be a construction site next year developer pat gillespie is seeking nearly 41 million in state and local tax incentives for his proposed 231 million mixeduse marketplace project the site is eligible for financial incentives under the state s brownfield program because it contains environmental contamination oh that darned organic fruit the juice leaked into the cement and caused an agricultural disaster i ve always been suspicious of the organic industry and my fears have been proved to be wellfounded the project is not feasible without the incentives gillespie said if it s not feasible and you can t make a profit then don t do it this isn t rocket science why should i pay you for a private enterprise that will not benefit me but why wait just because homebuilder s confidence is at an 18month low  and neither michigan nor the us as a whole has a competent economic recovery strategy surely that s no reason the developer can t try to bilk the taxpayers out of more money the developers at eyde aren t going to rest until they ve gotten their share of corporate welfare  either the east lansing developer in august announced the project did not receive a 2 million federal brownfield grant a key part of a proposed financing package of roughly 21 million in tax breaks grants and a governmentbacked loan but don t worry they ve still got their hand out reaching for our pockets but eyde hopes it ll have better luck in a second round of grants awarded next spring in order to start construction by summer 2011 said mark clouse chief financial officer and general counsel for eyde will we ever return to a time when people risked their own money in the hopes of succeeding of course not  