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November 11, 2010
Latest Peek at Atlantic Yards Construction Site
BrooklynTrolleyBlogger
BTB gets all misty over the prospect of a pro sports franchise in Kings County.
It seems like a millennium has passed since the original plan to bring the Nets to Brooklyn was announced back in 2003. It was a long, rough and tumble, hard fought struggle for Bruce Ratner, and still, his problems have not subsided. There was a time when Brooklynites, to include myself, thought this project and the eventual relocation of the Nets would never happen. And while much of the greater Atlantic Yards project is still in questionable status, the Barclays Center site is buzzing with activity. Mikhail Prokhorov has since been added to the equation as the team's new principle [sic] owner and the appreciable progress being made in construction have excited this Brooklynite. It is with great anticipation I await the Nets arrival into the Borough and by that, reinstating our Professional status; stripped from us in 1957. Two years is still a long ways away and anything can happen between now and then. But this giant concrete circle in the ground at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush is a signal that our day is coming.
NoLandGrab: "Principle" owner? There's nothing principled about Atlantic Yards.
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Posted by eric at November 11, 2010 10:07 AM