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December 1, 2009
Brooklyn Broadside: Some Predictions for 2010 About Downtown Brooklyn
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Dennis Holt
The Eagle's Holt, who's been predicting actual construction of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project for years now, predicts it again.
With December at our throats and the New Year waiting in the wings, it is time to play with tea leaves and make some predictions about 2010, the last year in the first decade of this century.
In general, before the end of the year, the boom could return to Brooklyn, although not as frenetic as before the Great Recession.
Atlantic Yards will begin with the work on the arena at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. If Forest City can hold to its schedule, the first residential building will start being built, and by the end of the year, there could also be news about the commercial part of the project.
NoLandGrab: The "news about the commercial part of the project" could be that it'll never get built, due to an utter lack of demand for Brooklyn office space. No office building, no office jobs, but never mind that.
Posted by eric at December 1, 2009 10:30 AM