News

The Mod Squad is coming to Atlantic Yards!
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Pre-made units for the world's tallest modular building will be hoisted into place at a construction site in the shadow of Barclays Center. Downtown Brooklyn's first pre-fab apartment tower – referred to by developer Forest City Ratner as B2 – will ...

Valuing Atlantic Yards
Crain's New York Business (blog)
The huge Atlantic Yards mixed-use project in Brooklyn, which includes the Barclays Center and planned residential development, isn't worth as much as everyone expected, to the dismay of its developer Forest City Ratner Cos. Forest City said in a filing ...

New York Daily News
Brooklyn on the rise
New York Daily News
Huge doings in Brooklyn: Weather permitting, the first residential building in the massive Atlantic Yards development will start to rise on Thursday hard by the Barclays Center. Construction of the 32-story, 363-unit tower begins the arrival of the ...
Finally! World's largest mod building lands in Atlantic YardsBrooklyn Daily Eagle
Value of Atlantic Yards Cut SharplyWall Street Journal
Workers To Lift 'Mods' Into Place At Atlantic Yards Residential BuildingNY1
The Real Deal Magazine (blog) -Real Estate Weekly -New York Observer
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Forest City Enterprises, Inc. (FCE.A): Forest City: A Look Through The Trees ...
Seeking Alpha
The company has secured Greenland Group as a majority investor in the 22-acre Atlantic Yards project, a development that gives the company exposure to the strong Brooklyn apartment market. Other major projects include the Nassau Coliseum ...

NY business incentives face skepticism from de Blasio
Chicago Tribune
He backed Forest City Ratner Cos.'s Atlantic Yards development in downtown Brooklyn, which includes an arena for the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and 6,430 residential units. Forest City saved almost $730 million through government benefits, according ...

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Photos: How To Build An Atlantic Yards Skyscraper In A Brooklyn Warehouse
Gothamist
Critics of Atlantic Yards have been sharpening their pitchforks since Barclays Center opened its sleek polished doors last September, demanding to know what became of all that affordable housing Bruce Ratner promised so many moons ago. The answer, it ...

NYC Business Tax Breaks Face Skepticism From De Blasio
Bloomberg
Atlantic Yards. De Blasio, the city's public advocate, has supported developments aided by tax breaks in the past. He backed Forest City Ratner Cos.'s Atlantic Yards development in downtown Brooklyn, which includes an arena for the Brooklyn Nets ...

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New Location Opens In Brooklyn, New York
PR Web (press release)
Romacorp, Inc., parent company for Tony Roma's restaurants, and Atlantic Yards Plaza, LLC, licensed franchisee of Tony Roma's, together announce the opening of a new Tony Roma's location in Brooklyn, NY scheduled for December 10, 2013, the day after ...

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Atlantic Yards Housing Petition Circulates Ahead of Sale
Patch.com
Forest City Ratner promised the people of Brooklyn 2,250 affordable apartments at the Atlantic Yards project in exchange for hundreds of millions in public subsidies. Then it pushed back completing that housing for 25 years. Now Forest City wants to ...

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Atlantic Yards Housing Petition Circulates Ahead of Sale
Patch.com
With New York State now in a position to approve a sale of a large stake in Atlantic Yards to a foreign developer, Brooklyn elected officials are circulating a position to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to take action to ensure housing is built as promised. So ...

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Liberals retaking control in New York
Capitol Hill Blue
James, a champion of minority and women's rights, vocally opposed big development in her section of Brooklyn during her 10 years in the City Council, including the Atlantic Yards development and the recently opened Barclays Center, home to the Brooklyn ...

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Liberals retaking control in New York
Capitol Hill Blue
James, a champion of minority and women's rights, vocally opposed big development in her section of Brooklyn during her 10 years in the City Council, including the Atlantic Yards development and the recently opened Barclays Center, home to the Brooklyn ...

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UK basketball notebook: Mayor says Barclays Center doing for Brooklyn what ...
Lexington Herald Leader
He toured the Barclays Center and its new Atlantic Yards district while in New York last year. Financials aside, the arena appeals to his artistic sensibilities. It sits in what was a "hunchbacked, brooding site" at Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, Art ...

After Years On The Sidelines, New York's Liberals Retaking Control
Carbonated.tv
James, a champion of minority and women's rights, vocally opposed big development in her section of Brooklyn during her 10 years in the City Council, including the Atlantic Yards development and the recently opened Barclays Center, home to the Brooklyn ...

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Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South fetches $660M
Crain's New York Business
Greenland Holdings Group, a real estate development and investment company owned by the Chinese government, has entered into a contract to acquire a majority stake in the Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn. Fosun International, another ...

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Rents at Atlantic Yards B2 tower range from $400 to $4400
The Real Deal Magazine (blog)
... the blog Atlantic Yards Report, citing New York City Housing Development Corporation data. The tower's opening date has been pushed to late next year, as a result of delays in launching a modular factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as previously ...

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What Worries Brooklyn
Bisnow
... Ratner project manager Adam Greene (with moderator Debbie Levinson of CohnReznick) says the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been a great place for putting together the modular components of B2, the 32-story residential tower it's putting up at Atlantic Yards.

Salon
Progressivism's great failure: The rise and fall of the Working Families Party
Salon
The Atlantic Yards project, the use of eminent domain to build a basketball arena in central Brooklyn, was opposed by many activists, considering that it was a case of a rich developer getting help from the state to profit from kicking regular folks ...

Ex-Deputy Mayor's Upper West Side Townhouse Asks $13M
Curbed NY
... in his role as one of Bloomberg's deputy mayors from 2001 to 2007, he oversaw the development of some of the city's most high-profile projects, including the World Trade Center, Atlantic Yards, Governor's Island, the High Line, and Brooklyn Bridge ...

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New York Daily News
Brooklyn begins its push to create an 'ambassador' job for outgoing Borough ...
New York Daily News
The entire borough's political elite salutes Markowitz, seen here at a rally in favor of the Atlantic Yards project, which he championed. It wouldn't be much of a leap to the world stage for the Brooklyn-boosting Markowitz, whose love of pun-filled ...