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September 24, 2012
Atlantic Yards Developer to Break Ground on First Residential Tower
The 32-floor apartment building next to the Barclays Center will be the first of 16 towers slated for the 22-acre development.
Park Slope Patch
by Amy Sara Clark and Paul Leonard
At Friday’s ribbon cutting for the Barclays Center, Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner announced the groundbreaking on the site’s first residential tower, reminding the public that the Nets arena is just a small part of the much contested 22-acre project.
"Today is only one part of our larger Atlantic Yards vision. There is more to come,” he said, naming Dec. 18 as the date construction begins on the first of 16 planned apartment towers.
Groundbreaking on the first non-arena building has, of course, been "announced" about 10 different times over the past three years — it's always "any day now."
Forest City Ratner has not yet decided whether the building will be built using traditional construction methods, or be made of modular units, which will be created in a factory and assembled on site. There has been some debate over whether a prefab building will look as good as a traditionally built one.
If the prefab route is taken, Atlantic Yards would host the tallest modular building ever made.
Posted by eric at September 24, 2012 12:32 PM