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April 6, 2010
Partnership’s Report Details Downtown’s Development Story
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Dennis Holt
More than six years into this thing, and Dennis Holt is still insisting that the Atlantic Yards site, snug in the midst of the low-rise Brooklyn Neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Prospect Heights and Park Slope, is somehow part of Downtown Brooklyn.
Looking at this new statistical method, one very important element leaps out at you: How the Atlantic Yards project dominates the Downtown Brooklyn numbers. For example, of all the cost estimates, the Yards account for 41 percent of the total. About 44 percent of the new residential units are for Atlantic Yards, and the entire Yards site takes up almost 38 percent of all the space.
The sports arena part of the planned project -- Barclays Center -- takes up a relatively small part of the total project numbers.
At the moment, no one really knows how many of the planned 6,430 housing units will be built.
NoLandGrab: Actually, Bruce Ratner probably knows, and it's probably a lot less than 6,430, too.
Posted by eric at April 6, 2010 12:03 AM