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September 11, 2012
Consultant: Arena schedule "extremely aggressive, but achievable" (though TCO not gotten as planned); punch list work will extend to 9/22, then resume on non-event days; also, a sign of a hockey push
Atlantic Yards Report
The latest report by Merritt & Harris, the construction consultant to the Barclays Center bond trustee, provides additional evidence that work on the arena is going down to the wire, with the projected substantial completion of the arena, 9/5/12, already missed and the consultant's observation that "the Arena schedule is extremely aggressive, but achievable," given overtime.
This is the first time the consultant has made such an observation.
Indeed, punch list work will extend to 9/22/12 and "resume during non-event days." That suggests that when the arena ribbon-cutting is held on 9/21/12, there will be more work to do.
NoLandGrab: We don't know about you, but we're starting to think it's unlikely that all of Atlantic Yards will be complete by December 10, 2013 — the promised ten-year buildout from the date the project was introduced.
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Meadowlands Matters [NorthJersey.com], Barclays Center countdown
We’re only 17 days away from the first event at the $1 billion Barclays Center, the Nets’ new home near downtown Brooklyn – and only 10 days away from a grand opening ceremony at the site.
And while it still doesn’t seem like it will be the scramble that the Devils faced in 2007 to move into the Prudential Center in Newark, it has become increasingly clear in the past few months that the site will continue to be a beehive of activity every single day for the next several weeks.
Posted by eric at September 11, 2012 10:28 PM