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June 11, 2009
MISSING: atlanticyards.com
Sure, it's a lot of work keeping up on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, but, here at NoLandGrab, we don't have the inside track... which makes us wonder about what's going on at Forest City Ratner, if the company's atlanticyards.com web site is now being redirected to barclayscenter.com.
dddb.net, Atlantic Yards Dot Com Is Dead
If ever there was any doubt that Atlantic Yards as proposed (in 2003) and as approved (in 2006) will never be built as planned, and that Brett Yormark and Joe DePlasco are extraordinary spinmeisters facing their toughest challenge, try visting the official site for the project, www.atlanticyards.com...
You can't.
Atlantic Yards Report, For now, at least, AtlanticYards.com doesn't exist, but resolves to BarclaysCenter.com
I think AtlanticYards.com is more likely suspended (pending major modifications) than dead (as per DDDB, which noticed first), but it sure suggests that the arena is the developer's priority, not the housing, open space, or other promised benefits that seem ever more attenuated.
Here are some screenshots of the now-hidden AY site.
And the designers of the Barclays Center site didn't get the memo, because that site still sends visitors to AY and claims that Frank Gehry is designing the project.
Posted by lumi at June 11, 2009 5:50 AM