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December 12, 2006
Atlantic Yards...One Step Closer
NY1, The Call Blog
The 4.2 billion dollar Atlantic Yards project for downtown Brooklyn passed another major hurdle today when the Empire State Development Corporation approved the plan for an arena with sixteen surrounding towers.
To complete the process, a final review is still required by the state Public Authorities Control Board. Governor Pataki supports the plan, but opponents say the approval process is moving too quickly, and should wait until Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer takes office. What do you say?
Should the decision wait until the new year, or do you support this project and feel the process has been fair?
Click here to submit your comment.
Here's one anonymous-but-interesting comment from the blog posted by someone who sounds like an insider:
Something I learned during my time working with FCRC that I'd like to share. While working on the project, I was surprised that no one at FCRC, from James Stucky to Jane Marshall, could speak with any confidence, let alone, certainty, to a range of anticipated problems, which ran the actual extent of the disruption during the construction phase to the actual implication of the density.
The operative word here is "actual." What's more, while Mr. Ratner has, of late, become a developer of some consequence, he is here entirely out of his league.
Which is to say, the man is no Sam Lefrak.
Posted by lumi at December 12, 2006 9:04 PM