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February 4, 2010
Hunt claims arena construction has started; Barclays Center web site offers "New York Post" article about the commencement of arena construction
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder reports on chimerical construction and the faulty attribution of a faulty newspaper story.
Forest City Ratner has not held the arena groundbreaking parent company Forest City Enterprises (FCE) in December "anticipated" by January 31, in the fourth quarter of FCE's fiscal year, and title to the land needed for the arena has not been transferred, as anticipated, to the Empire State Development Corporation.
But that hasn't stopped the Indianapolis-based Hunt Construction Group, in announcing that it got the contract to build the arena, that the Barclays Center "has already commenced construction."
...Also, the press section of the Barclays Center web site offers a link claiming Construction on Barclays Center Commences.
It's attributed, without equivocation, to the New York Post, though it never appeared in the print newspaper and, when posted on the Post's web site, was clearly attributed not to the Post but to the Post-owned weekly Courier-Life.
As I pointed out January 15, the conceptual scoop by the Courier-Life's notorious Stephen Witt evaded everyone else in the media.
NoLandGrab: Kudos to Oder for coining the term "conceptual scoop," a nice way of saying "made-up b.s."
Posted by eric at February 4, 2010 9:46 AM