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September 6, 2012
What Goes Up, if Only in Stages
The New York Times
by Philip Nobel
No "Nobel" Prize for this article — The Times continues to dismiss (and fails to cover) completely legitimate neighborhood concerns about Bruce Ratner's basketball arena.
Two long-anticipated projects, both with long histories of controversy, will be completed — at least partly completed — in the city in the next year.
For star appeal, media fuss and renewed bouts of neighborhood grumbling, it may be hard to beat the opening of Barclays Center in Brooklyn. That building will be the first completed element of the extensive Atlantic Yards development, a plan that has been the focus of protests since the project was announced in 2003. The striking raw-steel-clad structure, designed by SHoP Architects of New York, will open on Sept. 28 with the first of an eight-night run of sold-out concerts by the performer, impresario and part owner of the Brooklyn Nets, Jay-Z. The Nets, kicking off an interborough rivalry, will play their first home game there against the Knicks on Nov. 1.
NoLandGrab: Hey, isn't that arena being built by The New York Times's development partner?
Posted by eric at September 6, 2012 1:29 PM