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December 20, 2006
Silver bells for Nets arena
Field of Schemes
There will be no repeat of the Miracle on 33rd Street: This afternoon, in a meeting that took all of five minutes, New York state's Public Authorities Control Board voted to approve Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, including a new Brooklyn basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets. Since the project is being overseen by a state agency that is exempt from city oversight, today's vote was the final governmental approval necessary for the project to move forward.
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The battle now turns to the courts, where opponents have filed one lawsuit against the taking of land by eminent domain, and promised to file another against the project's environmental impact statement for being "fatally flawed." The nuances of the Supreme Court's Kelo decision just got much, much more important.
Posted by lumi at December 20, 2006 8:56 PM