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December 22, 2010
Brooklyn Broadside: Brooklyn in 2011 Will See More Downtown Development
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Dennis Holt
It is that time of the year, with only a handful of days left, to try to peer ahead and predict what may happen in Brooklyn in 2011.
After two years of squealing brakes and cries of woe because of the great recession in Brooklyn, projects began to move again, some with force, in the Downtown Brooklyn area and elsewhere in 2010.
Looking ahead to next year, we can expect more of the same, with a tag reading “To Finish in 2012,” on many of the projects.
Some of these projects are obvious. After years of holdups, Atlantic Yards began to take shape when the skeleton of the Barclays Center went up. But that first very important structure will not be finished until 2012. What we should see in 2011 is the beginning of the housing portion of the project.
NoLandGrab: Don't set your watch by Holt's predictions. Here's last year's gaze into the crystal ball for 2010.
"If Forest City can hold to its schedule, the first residential building will start being built, and by the end of the year, there could also be news about the commercial part of the project."
Posted by eric at December 22, 2010 10:54 AM