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March 29, 2006
Building in footprint of Nets arena faces demolition today
Metro NY
By Amy Zimmer
The former mattress warehouse, 585 Dean St., is expected to be demolished starting today:
However, according to... a report the developer released to project foes Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, “the majority of the building’s distresses observed are the consequences of the building being open to elements and water infiltration.”
Daniel Goldstein, DDDB’s spokesman, said in the 20 months Ratner has owned the building, “They have let it deteriorate so they can claim it’s ‘blighted’ and so they can claim that it’s a public hazard in danger of imminent collapse.” Goldstein said the call for demolition was “bogus” because the developer had for so long “left the building stand with no protection to the public.”
Posted by lumi at March 29, 2006 7:31 AM