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September 24, 2012
Up Close: Atlantic Yards Project
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Tish James and DDDB's Candace Carponter offer a little reality to offset Marty Marowitz's fantasy version of Atlantic Yards and the Barclays Center.
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Atlantic Yards Report, In rebuttal to Markowitz, CM James and DDDB's Carponter appear on Channel 7
Would you ever set foot into that arena, asked Williams.
James said, "I was invited [to the opening], and I respectfully declined. I want to hold true to my principles." She then segued into campaign mode, saying she wanted to "make sure we can address the poverty we continue to see in the city of New York and provide jobs..." I suspect she may have to leave herself an out to visit the building.
"I'll never go there," Carponter said. "And it's heartbreaking to me, I understand its important to a lot of people in Brooklyn. For me, what's more important... to allow the project to go forward the way it's designed at this point is just wrong... What we hope is they allow more developers to come in... so whatever gets built gets built a little more organically, a little less high rise, more open space... certainly lots more affordable housing."
Of course there's a tension there too, because Forest City Ratner argues that only by building big can they build the subsidized housing.
Posted by eric at September 24, 2012 3:07 PM