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December 9, 2009
Pro hockey at the Atlantic Yards arena? It looks doubtful
Atlantic Yards Report
In a long post on his Noticing New York blog, Michael D. D. White makes a strong case that the Ellerbe Becket arena design could not accommodate professional hockey and that any intimation in the bond offering that the Atlantic Yards arena could host the New York Islanders is a feint.
"Feint" is a more pleasant euphemism for "lie" or "fraud" or "Tiger Woods."
Note that White is working with an arena schematic from several months ago, so it's possible the design has been revised. But the onus is on developer Forest City Ratner and the public parties to come clean.
NoLandGrab: Norman Oder himself wrote just last Friday that "the basic orientation and design of the arena was not changed; the main change concerned the skin."
If these arena bonds are such a great investment, why won't Goldman Sachs just be honest about them?
Posted by eric at December 9, 2009 9:52 AM