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November 27, 2006
Supersizing the Supersized
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's web site is linking to Norman Oder's article about the revelation that Frank Gehry is designing three towers over Atlantic Center Mall in conjunction with the Atlantic Yards project.
One of the coalition's main objections is that developer Bruce Ratner has refused to consider locating the arena on the Atlantic Center Mall site, and would rather use eminent domain to seize private property in order to locate the arena elsewhere:
This is the real reason that the developer has refused to build the proposed arena over his failed mall, rather than abuse eminent domain: why waste one's air rights when one can utilize them and take other people's properties?
Posted by lumi at November 27, 2006 10:19 PM