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January 19, 2007
Nets' Future Brooklyn Home To Be Called Barclays Arena
NY1
By Jeanine Ramirez
"It is our intention that the Barclays Center becomes the cultural and sporting heart of this community," said Barclays Bank president Bob Diamond. "And gives New York an additional state-of-the-art, absolutely world class arena for a wide range of performances and events."
Here's one point on which critics of Frank Gehry's overblown superblock mini-Manhattan project can agree with Mayor Bloomberg:
"This is the kind of iconic design that people are going to recognize from any part of the city and every part of the world."
Posted by lumi at January 19, 2007 7:57 AM