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You are not logged in. Register now. November 20, 2009
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News Columnist Talks About Atlantic Yards
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-13-2009

Juan Gonzalez, in his column in Friday’s Daily News, talks about the Kelo Supreme Court decision, in which the town of New London, Conn., was given the green light to evict residents of an area near a planned Pfizer research {read more...}




NBA Commissioner Hopeful on Prokhorov-Nets Deal
by Associated Press (), published online 10-23-2009

League Doing Background Checks on Wealthy Russian

By Brian Mahoney
Associated Press

NEW YORK — David Stern believes he could have a new owner before the year ends and his old referees before the season starts.

“I’m hopeful with respect to both and optimistic {read more...}





Nets’ Newark Talk Persists
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 10-22-2009

The Gothamist blog reports that “two pre-season games at the Prudential Center in Newark have been so highly attended that the Nets are considering moving there from the Meadowlands while they wait for a new home in Brooklyn.” But the {read more...}




Newark Hasn’t Given Up on the Nets
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 10-16-2009

With a new billionaire co-owner for the Nets, Newark Mayor Corey Booker is now seeking to push a temporary move by the team to Newark, according to the Atlantic Yards Report. According to the blog, Mayor Booker, interviewed on WBGO, {read more...}




Hockey at Nets’ Arena?
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 10-08-2009

It’s not only the Nets – Borough President Marty Markowitz is now trying to woo hockey’s Islanders to the yet-unbuilt Barclays Arena, according to the New York Post. “We’ve got lots of hockey fans, and we’d even let them keep {read more...}




Russian Billionaire, Nets To Form Partnership
by AP (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-23-2009

Prokhorov’s Group To Invest $200 Million Into Team, Brooklyn Arena

By Tom Canavan
Associated Press
And Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Russia’s richest man has a deal to buy a controlling interest in the New Jersey Nets and nearly half of a project to build the team’s Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn.

Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group announced the deal yesterday with Forest City Ratner Companies and Nets Sports and Entertainment. {read more...}





Reported Nets Backer Has Arrest Record
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-22-2009

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who reportedly is about to make a big investment in Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development, was arrested two years ago on suspicion that he was involved in an upscale prostitution ring, the Daily News reports. Prokhorov {read more...}




State Affirms Modified Atlantic Yards Plan
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-17-2009

‘The World Has Changed’ Since Introduction in ’03

BROOKLYN — As expected, Empire State Development Corporation’s (ESDC) Board of Directors Thursday met and affirmed the Modified General Project Plan for the Atlantic Yards project.

It also took other actions that will allow {read more...}





Long-Awaited Barclays Arena Design Is Finally Unveiled
by Raanan Geberer (), published online 09-09-2009

Original Gehry Design Was Scrapped Earlier This Year

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Three months after the leak of an unofficial, preliminary “hangar”-type design for Bruce Ratner’s Barclays Arena disappointed many, the firm has released a new design for the 675,000-square-foot arena that was hailed as an architectural step forward.

The new design is the project of award-winning architectural firms Ellerbe Becket and ShoP Architects. The images will also be on display at Borough Hall this coming Monday. According to the Associated {read more...}





New Architect For Ratner?
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-03-2009

According to the New York Observer and several blogs, Forest City Ratner has found a new architect for the Barclays (Nets) Arena. The architect was named as ShoP, which will in turn cooperate with institutional design specialist Ellerbe Beckett, {read more...}




Mayor Want’s Gehry’s Arena Design Back
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 08-26-2009

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn reports that in an interview with representatives of the Community Newspaper Group, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would prefer the now-discarded Frank Gehry design for Forest City Ratner’s yet-to-be-built Barclays Arena. “If there’s any way {read more...}




Atlantic Yards Opponents File Another Motion Alongside Eminent Domain Challenge
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 08-04-2009

Environmental Objection Claims Government Corruption

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — On the same day that a legal brief was filed with the New York Court of Appeals in preparation for upcoming oral arguments over eminent domain, opponents of Atlantic Yards filed another brief with the same court but in a separate case.

Tuesday, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) announced that it filed a memorandum of law with the Court of Appeals seeking leave to appeal an Appellate Division-First Department {read more...}





Rallies Both For and Against Atlantic Yards
by Bonnie Hartley (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 07-29-2009

While the Empire State Development Corp. was getting ready to begin its hearing at City Tech’s Klitgord Auditorium on the modified project plan for Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal, anti-Ratner protesters assembled outside, including a virtual “who’s who” of Downtown Brooklyn officials and political hopefuls. Seen here are, left-right: public advocate candidate Norman Siegel; Dan Goldstein of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn; and Councilwoman Letitia James.

Speakers stressed that the new plan provides only a small number of the affordable housing {read more...}





Ratner Looking for New Investors
by Associated Press (), published online 07-27-2009

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner has been getting feelers from individuals interested in buying a piece of the struggling NBA team that hopes to move to Brooklyn in 2011.

“We have received interest from potential {read more...}





The Court Date Is Set for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn
by Ryan Thompson (court@brooklyneagle.net), published online 07-09-2009

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The state’s highest court has chosen a date to consider the constitutionality of Atlantic Yards. Oral arguments are set for Oct. 14 {read more...}







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