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February 5, 2009
It Came from the Blogosphere...
Brooklyn the Borough, Atlantic Yards State Eminent Domain Case Scheduled
Despite security concerns and the arena’s exorbitant $625 per square foot bulletproof glass facade, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn would like to remind you that rumors of the death of Atlantic Yards have been greatly exaggerated.
And in case anyone was wondering, the smaller scale Unity Plan for Prospect Heights and Fort Greene still exists, and is beginning to make more and more sense as we progress further into a recession.
NY Press, Atlantic Yards Development Not Quite Dead Yet
We all began to believe that Ratner's dream of remaking downtown had just about vanished. Instead of Frank Gehry's gargantuan development design, we expected to see parcels sold off and an ugly hodge podge of possible development (or just ugly holes in the ground). But Brooklyn the Borough has a roundup that updates us on all that's going down this month concerning the not-quite-forgotten project.
PR Web, EarthCam Debuts New Heavy-Duty Wireless Security System at World of Concrete
The easily deployed, heavy-duty wireless protection surveillance sensors detect motion along the perimeter of project sites or properties and instantly activate cameras to automatically focus on intruders. The system can be seamlessly integrated into existing jobsite surveillance operations and sensitivity of the detectors can be adjusted remotely.
...Clients include Turner Construction, Bovis Lend Lease, Skanska USA, Forest City Ratner Companies....
NoLandGrab: With Forest City Ratner having rid the project area of all but a few pesky residents and businesses, and with work on the site all but non-existent, the only "intruders" we anticipate will be the weeds that start sprouting once spring comes around.
9nine9's Weblog, The Newark Nets: Why not?
And before anyone brings up the Nets’ “impending” move to Brooklyn, please silence yourself. This move is never, ever going to happen. There’s a better chance of a certain overweight 40-year-old under-six-foot blog-writing Jew with no basketball skills starting at point guard than there is for the Nets to ever bounce a ball in Brooklyn. The Atlantic Yards project is as dead as Sarah Palin’s political future. It would have been a fantastic move for the franchise, but it’s not happening. Accept this and deal with it.
For the love of God, please let the Nets move to Newark.
Oxadox.com, Luxury Real Estate News and Trends
Perhaps the agents who secured the funding could have a talk to Forest City Ratner, the developers of the struggling $4 billion “Atlantic Yards,” project which was announced as “The biggest project in Brooklyn,” which keeps shrinking. The original architect, Frank Gehry laid off more than two dozen staffers in late November after Forest City Ratner ordered the architect to put down his pencils. The developers have since been scrambling around for an alternative and juggling basketballs to keep the loans afloat.
Huffington Post, Madoff Versus Markopolos: How The Journal Dropped The Ball
The name of Brooklyn's most-revered overdeveloper pops up in this post about Harry Markopolos's claim that the WSJ missed the Madoff story.
Read the Journal, and you, too, would become an awesome force for wealth and gentrification while all those New York Daily News simps fought for the scraps and leftovers in the gilded Terrordome that you and Bruce Ratner built, out of gold and gossamer. I exaggerate, of course.
PolitickerNY, Ed Towns Gets a Chance to Matter
“He has not been helpful with the community’s efforts to battle the Atlantic Yards project,” said Ruth Goldstein, a longtime Fort Greene resident, activist and leader of the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, which recently sponsored the centennial of the Martyrs Monument in the Olmsted-designed greensward.
Miss Representation, Coney Island Low
The Brooklyn Bridge Park: on hold because developers don't feel confident they can sell condos that will steal views from Brooklyn Heights, the tabula rasa of gentrification. Pier 17, dunzo as General Growth slides from a legit stock to over the counter (hell, it might be under the counter by now). Governor's Island: broke-ass. The WTC site: replacing two million square feet of office space with 'stumps'. Atlantic Yards: now doubtful we will even see a Brooklyn Nets, let alone 'Miss Brooklyn' -- even the Williamsburg Bank Building (excuse me, the Hanson) is going rental. Hudson Yards: next year -- for reals, sayeth Related.
Posted by eric at February 5, 2009 4:44 PM