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April 6, 2011
No Sleep Till Barclays
HOOPSWORLD
Wow, Forest City's Linda Chiarelli is raising the bar for inane Atlantic Yards blather. Are you up to the challenge, Brett Yormark and Bruce Bender?
"The building is a building of its own," Forest City Ratner Companies senior vice president and deputy director of construction Linda Chiarelli, told HOOPSWORLD.
But as unfamiliar as the exterior may seem, the interior evolved from arenas currently in use. In fact, some Pacers fans might find themselves right at home in the Barclays Center.
"We looked at dozens of arenas examining bowl shape more than anything else," Chiarelli said. "The bowl, I would say it's probably he Conseco Field House bowl that inspired the bowl shape."
..."This is the opposite [of the Izod Center]," Chiarelli said. "It's a very intimate bowl. That was the goal here to establish that level of intimacy."
You mean like the rendering at right by Freddy's Donald O'Finn?
Not content to let Chiarelli steal the spotlight, HOOPSWORLD gets into the act with its own nonsense.
If a New Jersey resident wants to remain a fan of the Nets, they won't have to cut through Southern Manhattan to drive to the game. Traffic can be avoided by simply driving through Staten Island and over the Verrazano Bridge.
Yup, no traffic at all near Atlantic and Flatbush. Drive on over!
No stadium is perfect, but the Nets have already positioned themselves to be a cheaper, and possibly more convenient way for New Yorkers to see the NBA.
If by "cheaper," they mean "more than double the $60 average for tickets to see the woeful Nets at Newark’s Prudential Center" and "among the NBA’s highest" priced tickets, then yes, "cheaper" it is.
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Posted by eric at April 6, 2011 10:42 AM