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Huffington Post
Will Hudson Yards Be the New Tribeca?
Huffington Post
The more familiar of these redevelopments includes Hudson Yards, the 17 million square foot, mixed-use development built atop the West Side rail yards and Pacific Park, formerly known as Atlantic Yards, in downtown Brooklyn. Such redevelopment projects ...

Are they selling? Maybe yes, maybe maybe
NetsDaily
The conventional wisdom is that the Nets ownership --both Mikhail Prokhorov and Bruce Ratner-- are selling the Nets and Barclays Center. But over the last two days, on the pages of the Financial Times and in the Cleveland boardroom of Forest City ...

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New York Post
Space provider gobbles up six downtown floors
New York Post
“East Meets West — Brooklyn Mirrors Kowloon” at 535 Carlton Ave. in Atlantic Yards was brought in by Paul Liebowitz, William Shanahan and Darcy Stacom of CBRE. Leases include: “Etsy Keeps its Faith in Brooklyn” at 117 Adams Street and 55 Prospect St.

Architectural Record
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Hosts Leadership Awards Gala, Kicks off ...
Architectural Record
... designed by Annabelle Selldorf, Principal, Selldorf Architects, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, designed by Susan Rodriguez, Partner, Ennead Architects, and Long Island Railroad Vanderbilt Yard Relocation, Atlantic ...

Corrections: February 24, 2015
New York Times
Because of an editing error, an article in some editions last Tuesday about holdout residents and businesses leaving the former Atlantic Yards site misspelled the name of the concentration camp where Louis Piller, the deceased founder of Atlantic Wool ...

Forest City moves to build 23-story resi building at Pacific Park
The Real Deal Magazine (blog)
Some property owners who have not yet vacated their properties at the former Atlantic Yards site will be moving out within two months, allowing the developers to move forward. Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the address.

New York Daily News
New megaprojects will remake swaths of NYC from scratch
New York Daily News
Pacific Park, the ambitious 15-building Brooklyn megaproject formerly known as Atlantic Yards, was stalled for a decade when developer Bruce Ratner got smacked by an inevitable downturn in the real estate market. In the end, China-based Greenland ...

Commercial Observer
Forest Ranger: MaryAnne Gilmartin on Her 20-Year Career at Forest City Ratner
Commercial Observer
Now almost two years into her tenure, Ms. Gilmartin sat down with Commercial Observer to discuss the Barclays Center's role in anchoring its Brooklyn neighborhood, the improbability of the company landing the New York Times Building project and her ...

Last property owners at Pacific Park to leave within two months
The Real Deal Magazine (blog)
Greenland Holdings, the Chinese company that bought a majority stake in Atlantic Yards and renamed it, however, is looking to move forward. Greenland Holdings wants to finish the development within a decade, according to the newspaper. “We're so lucky ...

New York Times
In Arena's Shadow, Holdouts at Atlantic Yards Site Must Now Leave
New York Times
Last week was a busy one at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The rusticated arena lost its shot at hosting the 2016 Democratic National Convention, but there was still plenty to cheer during its first N.B.A. All-Star celebration. It was a busy week ...

In Gentrified Brooklyn, Where Will Ordinary People Live?
Huffington Post
Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park in Brooklyn, part of the Forest City-Ratner-Barclays Arena project, was supposed to provide 2,250 units of affordable housing by 2025. None have opened so far and nearly two-thirds of the 600 affordable units in the two ...

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In Gentrified Brooklyn, Where Will Ordinary People Live?
Huffington Post
Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park in Brooklyn, part of the Forest City-Ratner-Barclays Arena project, was supposed to provide 2,250 units of affordable housing by 2025. None have opened so far and nearly two-thirds of the 600 affordable units in the two ...

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World Socialist Web Site
New York Mayor de Blasio announces meager housing goals
World Socialist Web Site
At Atlantic Yards, the massive project in Brooklyn now under construction, fully two thirds of the 600 apartments set aside for low- and middle-income tenants will go to households making more than $100,000 a year, with rents starting at $2,600. The ...

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World Socialist Web Site
New York Mayor de Blasio announces meager housing goals
World Socialist Web Site
At Atlantic Yards, the massive project in Brooklyn now under construction, fully two thirds of the 600 apartments set aside for low- and middle-income tenants will go to households making more than $100,000 a year, with rents starting at $2,600. The ...

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New York Mayor de Blasio announces meager housing goals
World Socialist Web Site
At Atlantic Yards, the massive project in Brooklyn now under construction, fully two thirds of the 600 apartments set aside for low- and middle-income tenants will go to households making more than $100,000 a year, with rents starting at $2,600. The ...

Brooklyn Paper
Many familiar faces in Yards watchdog group
Brooklyn Paper
The watchdog group that is tasked with monitoring construction at the mega-development formerly known as Atlantic Yards is finally on the job, and it includes several people who have long histories of supporting the project. The Atlantic Yards ...

NetsDaily
Will Brooklyn Nets fans lose Barclays Center entrance plaza?
NetsDaily
The original plans for Atlantic Yards (now called Pacific Park) called for a 500-foot office tower, called "Miss Brooklyn" It was supposed to be built on the site where the Barclays Center entrance plaza now fills up with fans. The 2008 recession took ...

New York Post
'Pretty Filthy' is a surprisingly wholesome musical about the porn industry
New York Post
As with earlier shows such as “In the Footprint” (about the fight over Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project), the Civilians company researched “Pretty Filthy” by conducting extensive interviews with porn pros, both active and retired. Bess Wohl and ...
'Pretty Filthy' review: Fun from porn centric Off-Broadway showamNY

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Building a Stuyvesant Town in Sunnyside Will Be Controversial
Curbed NY
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a number of new initiatives at this State of the City speech yesterday, but the one that is generating the most controversy so far is his plan to rezone Sunnyside, Queens, to allow for 11,250 affordable housing units at ...

Building a Stuyvesant Town in Sunnyside Will Be Controversial
Curbed NY
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a number of new initiatives at this State of the City speech yesterday, but the one that is generating the most controversy so far is his plan to rezone Sunnyside, Queens, to allow for 11,250 affordable housing units at ...