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February 1, 2011
Atlantic Yards on the Rise
A monthly photo essay documenting the construction of the Atlantic Yards development and the Barclays Center, which the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets will soon call home.
Park Slope Patch
by Kristen V. Brown
The first signs of the Barclays Center are beginning to peek up over the blue wall encasing the Atlantic Yards development. Steel girders are looming over Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, and construction workers now can be seen balancing on the beams that will form the structure of the basketball arena that developer Bruce Ratner hopes to open for the 2012-2013 season.
This month, there were developments behind the scenes, too — last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tapped Cobble Hill native and former Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Kenneth Adams to run the Empire State Development Agency, which oversees the project, along with Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Every month, we'll take a look at the progress the work crews are making. As the Barclays Center and the rest of the development rise along the neighborhood’s border, we'll take note as each beam is raised, each wall is erected and each building demolished.
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NoLandGrab: Bruce is probably done demolishing for a while, since he's not going to knock anything down until he's ready to build something other than the arena, which may be a long way off. Or never.
Photo: Kristen V. Brown/Park Slope Patch
Posted by eric at February 1, 2011 10:10 AM