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March 8, 2010
For the record: The vastly overoptimistic and misleading Atlantic Yards p.r. statements from December 2003 and BBall.net
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder looks back at some early lies over-promises about Atlantic Yards.
Below are scans--in two parts--of the promotional material Forest City Ratner distributed when the project was announced in December 2003. (They distributed the packets at a meeting several months later that I attended.)
Much has changed, and much was impossible at the start.
The arena was supposed to open in 2006 (!) and the project was estimated to take ten years to build. Neither was remotely realistic.
Posted by eric at March 8, 2010 10:34 AM