To the relief of many Westfield residents, Mayor Brindle and her downtown overdevelopment partner, the international conglomerate Hudson’s Bay Company, just blinked. It appears that, more than a year after forcing an enormous, ill conceived, no-bid construction project down our collective throats, they have accepted the fact that the project is too big and economically infeasible. They don’t admit that, of course. Instead, they claim that they have “listened to” and are now responding to the concerns of the Westfield Advocates for Responsible Development, local Republican officials, and other anxious residents. Don’t believe it.