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January 10, 2012
Barclays Center steel back in the bag
After shutting its doors last month, the company making the weathered steel panels that will sheath Brooklyn's Barclays Center again fires up the production line.
Crain's NY Business
by Theresa Agovino
Fabrication of the weathered steel for the façade of the Barclays Center resumed over the weekend after being halted since late December when the company doing the work shut its doors, according to a spokesman for the arena's developer, Forest City Ratner Cos.
Indiana-based ASI Limited reopened after the arena's contractor, Hunt Construction Group, worked with insurer Ohio Farmers to get the plant working again.
“We are very pleased with how Hunt responded to this situation,” said the Forest City spokesman. “Thanks to their aggressive actions, work has resumed, and we're all the more confident that we will meet our milestones for the arena.”
He added that Hunt is looking for additional companies to make the steel for the 675,000-square-foot arena that will be home to the Brooklyn Nets. Slated to open this fall, in time for the start of the basketball season, the arena is the first building to rise in the vast $4.9 billion, 14-apartment-tower Atlantic Yards project.
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Posted by eric at January 10, 2012 11:32 AM