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July 3, 2009
Ratner Makes New Promises; Amanda Burden Close to Edge on Arena Design
After Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner committed not to build ugly, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn wonders:
So, if the renderings of the Barclays Center Hangar were not Bruce Ratner's "intentions for the project" what were they and what are his intentions? And if he still doesn't know what his arena is going to look like (if that is true) how can he claim, with a straight face, that he's breaking ground this fall?
Anyway...
It seems pretty clear that City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden is not pleased with Atlantic Yards at all. So she has a choice to make: let it stumble along and end up with decades-long blight and a big box arena sitting empty most of the time or buck her boss Bloomberg and do the right thing. It's times like these on projects like these that call for whistleblowing.
Posted by lumi at July 3, 2009 5:35 AM