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January 22, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
More blogosphere reaction on the Barclays naming-rights deal from the usual and unusual suspects:
FunkyPundit, Atlantic Yards' Latest Blemish
Incidentally, if, as the Empire State Development Corp. says, the Atlantic Yards is a "public arena" -- and it's certainly true it's to be publicly financed with triple-tax-free bonds -- then why, pray tell, don't we the people get naming rights?
Sports Business News, Location, Location, Location – the sports naming rights bar is raised again thanks to the Big Apple
In a naming rights agreement that defies economic logic, Barclay’s Bank and the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets last week announced a $400 million, 20-year agreement for the Nets new arena.
Neighborhood Retail Alliance, AY Opponents Bank Shot
The attempt to delegitimize the Atlantic Yards project continues apace with today's story by the Daily News' Michael O'Keeke on the manufactured furor over the checkered history of Barclays Bank. And just as we said already, it's amusing how some folks take everything that is printed by certain media outlets as gospel.
NoLandGrab: We're a little slow, so we don't quite understand why, if the furor was "manufactured," did Ratner supporter Rev. Daughtry express concerns in the article linked by Ratner consultant Richard Lipsky?
The Jaunt, Future Brooklyn Nets; Slaves to Corporate America
Just a week after celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King -- and a few weeks short of Black History Month -- corporate America reminds us once again that cut-throat tactics are what this country was built on, and continues to thrive on.
Don't Worry It's Just Reality: Brooklyn Edition, so when we reallly boil it down....
All this state money, seized property via eminent domain abuse, time, effort....to build a giant logo board for an international bank. Looking back civic projects of the past - central and prospect park, (largely privately funded) the metropolitan museum of art....and what has the current power-elite chosen to do with their power to not give, but take - to erect giant advertisements and marketing vehicles for large companies - literally at the expense of smaller ones and middle class tax payers
Posted by lumi at January 22, 2007 10:01 AM