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March 24, 2012
Ratner amps up the Jay-Z claim: "He is the one that is not only designing the suites, but the lounges, the restaurants, giving the thing a whole feel."
Atlantic Yards Report
Bruce Ratner gives a tour of the under-construction Barclays Center to the ever-unskeptical Fox 5.
"Everything in this arena is related to Brooklyn. What do I mean by that? The exterior has a certain toughness to it, a certain grittiness to it. It's made out of a kind of steel that hasn't even been painted. It's beautiful, on one hand, but tough on another hand."
(Just like the "Brooklyized" water?)
"It's built to be basketball-centric," Ratner says, but of course isn't asked why that was so: the developer shrunk the building to save money, and preclude (they thought) major league hockey.
Posted by steve at March 24, 2012 6:44 PM