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March 24, 2008
It came from the Blogosphere...
The Gowanus Lounge, Atlantic Yards Arena Costs Spelled Out
GoLo linked our digest of skyrocketing arena costs:
Among the many bombshells in the Times story about the Atlantic Yards Stall on Good Friday, was the fact that the cost of the area has nearly doubled to just shy of $1 billion.
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Is a $950 million single-sport arena financially viable? Stay tuned.
The comments that follow center around Errol Louis's weekend column.
nets net, Musing About the Future, Part I
The Nets are not going to the playoffs, of this I am thoroughly convinced. Thus, on a night when I am not particularly angry about their most recent loss, I thought it would be constructive to begin speculating about the future of the team...
Without Ratner punting and selling the team, without him giving up the ghost of Atlantic Yards, [coach] Lawrence Frank is safe, simply by default.
And we can look forward to two or more years of bad basketball...
Nets Daily, Daily News Columnists Blame Critics for Atlantic Yards Delay
Errol Louis and Michael Daly, two Daily News columnists and longtime supporters of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards, lashed out –at different decibel levels– against the project’s critics noting that Ratner’s new housing would have more than made up for the few that would have been condemned. Now both worry the city’s housing crisis will get worse and the Ratner plan will die. A critic [Norman Oder] takes both to task.
Posted by lumi at March 24, 2008 5:05 AM