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September 13, 2012
The Yards They Are A’Changing: Barclay’s Center Is Opening Up Really Soon
NYU Local
by Eric Silver
You remember the Barclays Center, right? You know, it’s that construction site in Brooklyn that’s supposed to become something? Since you’ve been away, the House That Jay-Z (And Gentrification) Built is actually looking like a stadium. A really, really, really big stadium.
Actually, its looks a lot bigger than everyone thought it was going to look like. Barclays Center construction watchdog blog Atlantic Yards Report shows an extremely misleading rendering used on the official Atlantic Yards website. “First, the hovercraft effect… The rendering appears to be the work of someone standing on his shoulder. Note the height of the subway entrance.” The rendering also makes the stadium look much less wide and about the same size as the adjacent mall, which is pretty much not true. Check out the website’s own panorama to compare the details.
...This isn’t the first huge piece of construction that’s come to the Atlantic Yards area. Bruce Ratner, the president of Ratner Forest construction and the guy responsible for the Barclays’s Center, built two monstrous malls just next door. The Atlantic Terminal and the Atlantic Center are two testaments to suburbs right in the heart of Brooklyn, sporting a Target, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chuck E. Cheese, and a DMV for good measure. Although everyone was equally abuzz when the Terminal went up in 2004, there’s been a shift from “Wow, we have a Target!” to “Wow, this guy is taking over everything!”
Posted by eric at September 13, 2012 12:07 PM