New Stadium Will Have 18,000 Seats for Nets Games
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
FORT GREENE — Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) reports it has awarded Hunt Construction Group the construction contract for the Barclays Arena at Atlantic Yards.
The Indianapolis-based construction company will be working with arena designers Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects, and will be using “a structural steel superstructure frame with structural precast seating bowl and a weathered steel rain screen facade,” according to a published statement.
As frequently reported in the Eagle, Barclays will be the cornerstone and the first building of the larger Atlantic Yards development. It will be a 675,000-square-foot sports and entertainment arena, with 18,000 seats for basketball and 19,000 seats for concerts, plus 104 luxury suites, public concourses on two levels, a suite-level club restaurant, and an adjoining practice facility.
Also as previously reported, it will be home to the NBA’s Nets, Brooklyn’s first major professional sports team since the 1957 departure of the Dodgers.
“Hunt is extremely proud to be a part of this historic endeavor, and is excited about serving as the design-builder,” said Ken Johnson, executive vice president.
Commented Bruce Ratner, chairman and CEO of FCRC, “Hunt has an outstanding construction team that has built many of the best sporting venues in the country.”
In its resume of more than 100 sports and special event centers in the U.S. are Citi Field, home of the NY Mets; the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium and Ice Rink; and the Southwest Airlines renovations at LaGuardia Airport.
Elsewhere it has also completed Nationals Park (home of the Washington Nationals), Busch Stadium (home of the St. Louis Cardinals) and University of Phoenix Stadium (home of the Arizona Cardinals).
Currently under construction is the Amway Center (future home of the Orlando Magic) and Consol Energy Center (future home of the Pittsburgh Penguins).
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