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June 29, 2010
Motion to Reconsider Atlantic Yards in Court Tuesday
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Ryan Thompson
Tuesday a Manhattan Supreme Court justice will hear oral arguments on a Motion to Reconsider the approval of the multibillion-dollar Atlantic Yards project in Downtown Brooklyn.
...Years of litigation has plagued and delayed developer Forest City Ratner from building Atlantic Yards on schedule, as lead opposition group, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, challenged the state’s controversial use of eminent domain to take the land from private homeowners and businesses in the project’s footprint. The group BrooklynSpeaks claims that the new evidence consists of a master development agreement that was allegedly executed between Forest City Ratner and other parties in the Atlantic Yards project, after the Empire State Development Corporation had already agreed to approve the Modified General Project Plan.
That agreement was withheld from public disclosure until after the hearing in the case, the petitioners claim. While several lawsuits challenging Atlantic Yards remain pending, few legal analysts believe that any pose a real threat to stopping the project, now that the eminent-domain lawsuits are over.
Posted by eric at June 29, 2010 10:12 AM