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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Walentas buys Gowanus site, but councilman vows fight if developer seeks residential rezoning
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
It's tool time! Two Trees Management just bought the Lowe's hardware store in Gowanus – but the neighborhood's councilman is already saying he'll fight any expansion of residential development to the relatively untouched Park Slope side of the ...

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Brooklyn Paper
Council okays use of eminent domain to seize Gowanus plots as part of canal cleanup
Brooklyn Paper
Officials resorting to eminent domain has stirred controversy in the past — more than a decade ago, the state-led Empire State Development Corporation seized a massive swath of land in Prospect Heights to make way for developer Bruce Ratner's massive ...

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artnet News
'Simply Not a Good Look': Activists Criticize the Brooklyn Museum's Hiring of a White African Art Curator
artnet News
At the very same time, it was playing host to the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, at which leading property corporations strategized about how to best identify new frontiers of investment in the borough. The President and Chief Operating Officer of the ...

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Open Letter to the Brooklyn Museum: Your Curatorial Crisis is an Opportunity to Decolonize
SF Bay Area Indymedia
At the very same time, it was playing host to the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, at which leading property corporations strategized about how to best identify new frontiers of investment in the borough. The President and Chief Operating Officer of the ...

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ARTnews
'Simply Not a Good Look': Activist Group Criticizes Brooklyn Museum's Hiring of White Curator for African Art ...
ARTnews
At the very same time, it was playing host to the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, at which leading property corporations strategized about how to best identify new frontiers of investment in the borough. The President and Chief Operating Officer of the ...

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ARTnews
'Simply Not a Good Look': Activist Group Criticizes Brooklyn Museum's Hiring of White Curator for African Art ...
ARTnews
At the very same time, it was playing host to the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, at which leading property corporations strategized about how to best identify new frontiers of investment in the borough. The President and Chief Operating Officer of the ...

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The Real Deal
The dismantling of Forest City Ratner
The Real Deal
In early 2003, Bruce Ratner walked into City Hall with a proposal to build the largest public-private real estate development New York had seen in more than two decades. The plan — based on a design by Frank Gehry — was to erect a sports-and ...

The Bridge
Inside the Battle over the Megaproject at 80 Flatbush
The Bridge
Opponents of the two-tower 80 Flatbush project call it “a Chrysler Building in Brownstone Brooklyn.” Its developers and supporters see it differently, believing that its size is a virtue, providing room for a wealth of facilities including two schools ...

Commercial Observer
Forest City Sells 363-Unit Brooklyn Building for $156M Amid Borough Pullback
Commercial Observer
In January, the company reduced its stake in the $5 billion Pacific Park Brooklyn mega-development to just 5 percent, as CO reported. And Forest City is no longer a development partner in the 1 Willoughby Square project with JEMB Realty, as The Real ...

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Brownstoner
Residents Voice Concern Over Controversial 80 Flatbush Development in Tense Public Hearing
Brownstoner
In a crowded auditorium at St. Francis College last night, Community Board 2 held their public hearing regarding the controversial development at 80 Flatbush Avenue, located at the nexus of Boerum Hill, Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn. Many people ...
'Too Tall! Too Close! Too Much!,' Say Opponents Of 80 FlatbushBKLYNER

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Crain's Cleveland Business
Forest City sells New York apartment building for $156 million
Crain's Cleveland Business
Although it is located in Brooklyn, the property was not part of the company's joint venture with China-based Greenland Group for the Pacific Park mixed-use project, formerly known as Atlantic Yards. Forest City described the buyer as an international ...

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Newsday
Norman Siegel to represent Belmont Park opponents
Newsday
Civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel will represent an Elmont-based community coalition opposed to the proposed $1 billion complex at Belmont Park that includes a new arena for the New York Islanders. Siegel, the former executive director of the New ...

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Business Insider
Here's where Elon Musk's Hyperloop could fit in New York City
Business Insider
Sam Schwartz, the former traffic commissioner of New York City and current CEO of Sam Schwartz Consulting, said either Grand Central or Penn Station could be an option, and if the company was interested in looking at the outer boroughs, Pacific Park ...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Forest City Ratner in Brooklyn: A real estate pioneer on the way out?
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“A proven visionary,” Downtown Brooklyn Partnership co-chair Bob Catell proclaimed at a 2009 public meeting, saying Ratner “was willing to take risks on Downtown Brooklyn when few others were.” Barclays Center, which opened in 2012 and brought major ...

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Forest City Ratner in Brooklyn: A real estate pioneer on the way out?
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Downtown Brooklyn, dicey before Ratner's entrance, now sizzles enough for Manhattan-based luxury developer Extell to build Brooklyn Point, a 720-foot tower at City Point, with a rooftop pool. Ratner, scrounging for capital during the troubled, extended ...

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The Real Deal Magazine
Let's say Elon Musk's Hyperloop actually happens. Here's where it could go in NYC
The Real Deal Magazine
Sam Schwartz, the former traffic commissioner of New York City and current CEO of Sam Schwartz Consulting, said either Grand Central or Penn Station could be an option, and if the company was interested in looking at the outer boroughs, Pacific Park ...

The Bridge
Forest City in Brooklyn: a Real Estate Pioneer on the Way Out?
The Bridge
“A proven visionary,” Downtown Brooklyn Partnership co-chair Bob Catell proclaimed at a 2009 public meeting, saying Ratner “was willing to take risks on Downtown Brooklyn when few others were.” Barclays Center, which opened in 2012 and brought major ...

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Pol: Protect schools with high tech tools
Brooklyn Daily
During the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley tried to find various locations for construction of a new baseball stadium, which he pledged to finance using his own funds. With limited seating and automobile parking capacity at Ebbets Field ...

The Island Now
Readers Write: What might have been with Brooklyn Dodgers
The Island Now
During the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley tried to find various locations for construction of a new baseball stadium, which he pledged to finance using his own funds. With limited seating and automobile parking capacity at Ebbets Field ...