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September 28, 2009
It came from the Blogosphere...
A Daily Photo of Brooklyn, NY, Crossing Flatbush
There’s no construction going on at the Atlantic Yards project, yet it’s like a construction site. How is that? The large unsightly building in the background is home to Target and other stores.
NoLandGrab: There is "prep work" going on in the railyards. BTW: the "large unsightly building in the background" is owned by Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner.
Noticing New York, Re: The Atlantic Yards Report of Our Wondering about Whether ESDC COULD Disapprove the Prokhorov Transaction
Coulda, woulda, shoulda — after being quoted in Atlantic Yards Report, blogger, lawyer and urban planner Michael D.D. White explains how the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) could review the Ratner-Prokhorov deal, why the agency should cover its ass, and why it won't.
NoLandGrab: Ratner helped the ESDC to gamely sidestep the issue, by announcing the Prokhorov deal less than a week after the quasi-public corporation "reapproved" the project.
johnbyronkuhner.com, New Jersey Nyets
One writer pats himself on the back for coming up with the "New Jersey Nyets."
NoLandGrab: Never mind that the obvious pun was also irresistible to NoLandGrab, NY Newsday, NY Post, Poet Leon Freilich, and The Associated Press.
Sean Elder, The Russian Is Coming, The Russian Is Coming!
Writer and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Advisory Board Member Sean Elder comments on the "typically condescending editorial in [The NY Times] Week in Review."
Moscow correspondent Clifford Levy first gives DDDB (of which I am a proud member) points for being “resourceful, tenacious and just plain ornery.” (“Get off my land, ya varmint!”) Then he establishes his bona fides by saying he now lives just blocks from Prokhorov’s office but used to live right near the site of the Nets proposed arena.
Hoops Vibe, From Russia with love: Mikhail Prokhorov perfect for New Jersey Nets
An analysis of the Prokhorov deal from Vancouver:
With Prokhorov in the fold, the Brooklyn arena again looks like a go. Barclays, a massive British bank, are rumored to have interest in buying naming rights and the 6-6 Russian will bring other international contacts to the franchise.
The timing is perfect. With a rich owner and developing core, the Nets are suddenly attractive to free agents next summer.
Forever in Flux, Atlantic Yards
Three photos from the footprint of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project.
The photo that appears here depicts a portion of the prep work going on in the railyards. The other photos show what's left of the Ward Bakery building, next to the main part that Ratner has already torn down.
The Game I Love, Ocio alla Perestrojka
Fun with machine translation:
The magic word is Atlantic Yards, the mega-complex of residential and new Nets arena (the Barclays Center, thirty thousand people) that should be built in downtown Brooklyn. Pharaoh Project, edited since 2004 by what is the owner of the Nets, Bruce Ratner, however, is in a phase of tired. Not only because environmentalists are bringing before the courts of each judicial Ratner for that which is revealed as a great work but also as a real bath of cement in the area. But also because the credit crisis in the U.S. has slowed monstrously funding.
NoLandGrab: For the record, the arena is supposed to hold 18-19K seats, not 30K, and is in Prospect Heights, not Downtown Brooklyn, which is a couple blocks away.
Digest-News.ru, Гамбит Прохорова ("Gambit Prokhorov")
More fun with machine translation:
Prokhorov - penetrating genius and will be many times richer than when the crisis is over.
Dances with Bears, MIKHAIL PROKHOROV AND THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION – STRETCH TO FIT
John Helmer, a commentator on Russian affairs, posted US Congressional Rep. Bill Pascrell's (D-NJ) press release, "urging [NBA Commissioner David Stern] to thoroughly investigate former nickel mining baron Mikhail Prokhorov, who reached an agreement... to buy the New Jersey Nets."
Posted by lumi at September 28, 2009 5:22 AM