New Rochelle Flowers Park RFP Was Plagiarized from Pelham Picture House RFP

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (October 22, 2025) — Grok AI is an amazing resource. At last night’s discussion of City Park by Council, Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren said she would take responsibility for the RFP, that it should have been named a Request for Qualifications and that she hired outside legal counsel to draft the RFP (not the norm, at all). Council member Martha Lopez said there were other ways to identify interested parties,, that Westchester County had resources to help the City to do that which got me wondering what other municipalities got help from Westchester, what sort of RFPs or RFQs were out there that were similar to New Rochelle’s Request for Master Redeveloper Proposal for “A Portion of Flowers (City) Park and how they compared.

What Grok chased down surprised me: