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September 22, 2006
New deal lets Nets escape to Queens
The Brooklyn Papers
By Gersh Kuntzman
When Nets owner and developer Bruce Ratner struck a deal to extend the lease at the Meadowlands for the team with an escape clause for moving the team to Brooklyn or Queens, we noted that developer Bruce Ratner had designs on the Willets Point plan. The Brooklyn Papers noticed that Ratner seems to be looking for a fallback position, but cites Long Island City.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which has agreed to sell the development rights at the Atlantic Yards site to Ratner, also owns the larger Sunnyside Yards in Long Island City — and Queens lawmakers want it developed, too.
One, City Councilman Eric Gioia (D–Queens), has called for Ratner to build there instead of in the congested heart of Brooklyn.
“I don’t think people [would] fight this stadium,” Gioia said two years ago, when he first called for Ratner to look north.
Calls to the MTA and Gioia were not returned.
Posted by lumi at September 22, 2006 7:02 AM