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November 16, 2006
Atlantic Yards plan moves along
NY Metro
By Amy Zimmer
This article mentions that the project is pretty much the same size as when it started:
Bruce Ratner’s $4.2 billion plan to build a basketball arena and 16 highrises got another step closer to approval yesterday when the state agency overseeing the development released its final environmental impact statement.
This document incorporates the 8 percent reduction the city called for, but the current scale isn’t much different from Ratner’s original 8 million-square-foot estimate from 2003. The project ballooned to 9.132 million square feet in 2005 and has been scaled back since.
After scuttling the West Side Stadium and bringing the Moynihan Station project to a halt, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has become the go-to guy for final approval of the project:
But the vote could come down to Silver, who killed the West Side Stadium and delayed Moynihan station. His spokesman Skip Carrier recently told Metro it was too early to say what Silver would do. “Each of these projects rise and fall on its own merits,” Carrier said. “The speaker will continue to review it.”
Posted by lumi at November 16, 2006 7:37 AM