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December 18, 2008
Architect drops ax on Yards staff
NY Daily News
by Jotham Sederstrom
In yet another slap against developer Forest City Ratner, architect Frank Gehry has axed nearly every employee working on the stalled Atlantic Yards project, sources told the Daily News.
...Although designs for an NBA basketball arena and five towers were first released in 2003 and redrafted this year, a second phase featuring 11 towers, affordable housing and public space has not been finalized.
A Forest City Ratner spokesman acknowledged that some designs had yet to be completed, but declined to discuss the layoffs or how they would affect the project.
"The answer is yes, of course there is design work left to be done, and, no, there are no new images to release," said Ratner spokesman Joe DePlasco.
NoLandGrab: That's about the straightest comment we've heard yet from JDP, though it's the questions he wouldn't address that are more telling.
Posted by eric at December 18, 2008 10:34 AM