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December 29, 2007
Getting Going (With One Loss)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Henrik Kroguis predicts doom for opponents of Brooklyn Bridge Park and Atlantic Yards, and then surveys the latter's footprint while considering the project's potential and pitfalls:
As we enter 2008 two of Brooklyn’s biggest projects are set to move into the construction phase: Brooklyn Bridge Park and Atlantic Yards. Lawsuits against both projects have so far failed, and the likelihood is that further appeals will also fail.
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That Atlantic Yards is a big project, as is Brooklyn Bridge Park, is clear enough. Yet, as we see skyscrapers sprouting nearby, along with the developments in the BAM cultural district, it becomes clear that the scale of this general area of Brooklyn has already changed, and that Atlantic Yards is no longer the colossus it may at first have seemed to be. It is, rather, an entirely sane extension of Brooklyn’s growing downtown.
Posted by lumi at December 29, 2007 9:45 PM