‘Building’ in Brooklyn: Nets Owner Prokhorov Gives State of the Nets/Arena Address
By John Torenli
Brooklyn Eagle
The hard hats were appropriate, considering Brooklyn’s new arena — the state-of-the-art, 18,000-seat Barclays Center — is now “75 percent complete,” but still officially under construction.
Holding his first press conference with the local media in over a year before the $800-million structure’s lower bowl, Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov hardly needed the protection.