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March 23, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
HOOPSWORLD, What’s Next For The Nets?
This is an incredibly important step forward for the franchise. At points throughout this arduous process, it appeared that the day would never come. Their were endless protests, lawsuits, and massive amounts of political red-tape to cut through, but on March 11th of this year officials finally broke ground on the $4.9 billion, 22-acre Atlantic Yards Project. This is vitally important to the growth and future prosperity of the franchise. The Nets have long had one foot out the door in New Jersey, but remained in a treacherous limbo as they hadn't been able to secure land in Brooklyn. This was the Nets biggest win of the season (although that isn't saying all that much).
NoLandGrab: Actually, there was hardly any "political red-tape to cut through," since the most powerful city and state elected officials were all in on the fix from the start.
New York Adventure 2010, Gehry #2
Remember Frank Gehry?
The fiscal crisis, however, got Gehry recently kicked off the Atlantic Yards project as the developer hoped to save $200 million with a less expensive and non-stainless-steel design by lesser-known architects. The surprise decision smacked of bait-and-switch but Gehry's design was not as fine as his metal designs at Bilbao, Beekman Street or the impressive Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
The Lorgnette, Essay: To be (Frank) or not to be (Frank)
Later the same year, fiscal concerns also led to his removal from the US$800m (A$886m) Atlantic Yards project in New York, on whose development he had spent six years. While this lattermost removal seems to have been effected amicably, the cause of the engagement’s termination was a budgetary trim of US$200m (A$220m) which Gehry’s design could not be made to meet.
NLG: The first figure refers solely to the cost of the arena, not the entire project.
Brownstoner, NYU Has Big Building Plans at Metrotech
As part of a 20-year plan that would see the university add six million square feet to its portfolio, New York University wants to build one million additional square feet for its engineering school at Metrotech. The foundation for the Brooklyn expansion were laid in 2008 when NYU agreed to merge with Polytechnic, whose campus abuts Forest City Ratner's office complex in Downtown Brooklyn. The Times, which broke the story this morning, reports that the architecture firm of Cooper, Robertson & Partners is working on a design for the Brooklyn expansion.
Posted by eric at March 23, 2010 10:32 AM