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April 5, 2011
Barclays Center Will Open Sept. 28, 2012!
Nets CEO Brett Yormark announced that the center will open with three weeks of public events before the season opener.
Park Slope Patch
by Kristen V. Brown
It’s official: on Sept. 28, 2012 the Barclays Center arena will officially open for business.
Brett Yormark, CEO of the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets, made the announcement Monday afternoon at a press conference at the Atlantic Yards construction site, alongside the team’s power forward Kris Humphries.
“We’re really excited about being here, this is obviously a moment we’ve been waiting for a great while,” said Yormark.
...The arena’s grand opening will include three weeks of public events prior to the Nets taking the hardcourt for the first time. Yormark said the opening festivites were an effort to “welcome and introduce the Brooklyn community to its new building.”
NoLandGrab: Given the reliability of Yormark's past pronouncements, we're not going to write this one in ink.
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Atlantic Yards Report, Barclays Center grand opening said to be September 28, 2012
NetsDaily reports:
Meanwhile, Sports Business Journal reports Barclays Center’s grand opening is set for Sept. 28, 2012, capping a three-week run of soft openings tied to open houses and community events, Brett Yormark said. The event that day should be announced in the next 30 days...but many believe it will be a concert by Jay-Z. The date was included in a story about how the Nets need to hire a new general manager for Barclays after the Knicks stole Alex Diaz from the Nets arena project.
Posted by eric at April 5, 2011 12:06 AM