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March 25, 2009
A project may not grow in Brooklyn
Crain's Cleveland Business reports that Atlantic Yards "lead architect" Frank Gehry isn't sure that the project is going to happen and that NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg isn't sure that Gehry will be the architect if it does:
Forest City Ratner Cos.’ big Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn is in peril, according to this story in The New York Daily News.
The short Daily News piece is based on an interview that Atlantic Yards architect Frank Gehry gave to The Architect Newspaper on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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The Daily News says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week suggested the $4.2 billion project — stalled for lack of financing in the recession — still could get built, but on a smaller scale and without Mr. Gehry.
Posted by lumi at March 25, 2009 5:41 PM