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March 11, 2010
Groundbreaking at Atlantic Yards comes years late
Thursday's ceremony to mark beginning of work on Nets arena in Brooklyn; building first of the residential towers expected to start in spring of 2011.
Crain's NY Business
by James Comtols
After more than six years of upheaval, lawsuits and false-starts, progress will finally be made at the sprawling Atlantic Yards site on the edge of downtown Brooklyn.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Barclays Center, the future home of the Nets basketball team, is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
...While some work has been done at the site in recent months, including the completion of a temporary rail yard in December, the project is years behind schedule. Original proposals called for the arena, plus residential and office towers, to be half-finished by now.
NoLandGrab: Half-finished? The original plan had the Nets playing the 2006-2007 season in Brooklyn.
Posted by eric at March 11, 2010 12:24 AM