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Brooklyn Reader
Community Board 2 Meets: Brooklyn Navy Yard's Planned Expansion and CB2 ...
Brooklyn Reader
Leading topics for the April meeting included details of the planned expansion of Steiner Studios, an update on the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District and a controversial vote by the Board to assume full oversight of the Atlantic Yards ...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Green roof to take root at Barclays Center
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The logo-inscribed roof of Barclays Center in Brooklyn will soon be covered in green. ... In December, FCRC and Greenland inked an agreement for a joint venture to develop as residential and commercial the 22-acres of Atlantic Yards.
Brooklyn's noisiest neighbor to get bass-muffling green roofMother Nature Network (blog)
Green roof to help noise-proof Barclays CenterBrooklyn Daily
Barclays Center to be Topped with Massive Green RoofArchDaily
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Green roof to take root at Barclays Center
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The logo-inscribed roof of Barclays Center in Brooklyn will soon be covered in green. ... In December, FCRC and Greenland inked an agreement for a joint venture to develop as residential and commercial the 22-acres of Atlantic Yards.
Brooklyn's noisiest neighbor to get bass-muffling green roofMother Nature Network (blog)
Green roof to help noise-proof Barclays CenterBrooklyn Daily
Barclays Center to be Topped with Massive Green RoofArchDaily
CBS Local -New York Daily News -Wall Street Journal
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Bill de Blasio Names New Department of Finance Commissioner
New York Observer
David Ehrenberg, currently the president and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation with deep experience managing the city's economic development projects, will continue to overseeing the Yard's diverse tenant base ...

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The Barclays Center's New Green Roof Will Muffle the Rave Noises
Gizmodo
When Brooklyn's rustiest building, the Barclays Center, hosted a Swedish House Mafia concert last year, the noise incurred the wrath of neighbors and a hefty $3,200 fine. Now, Barclays is installing a grassy roof on its "bald spot" in an attempt to ...

Wall Street Journal
A Roof Grows on Barclays
Wall Street Journal
Forest City officials said the effort is being driven by the next development phase at the site, known as Atlantic Yards, which calls for 6,400 apartments to be built in 15 towers—three that would surround the arena. By swapping a sprawling white roof ...

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A New Daisy Chain? US, Europe, China
Investing.com
This does not include the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, New York. It is reportedly a $5 bln development project for which a Chinese company (Greenland Holding Group) has a 70% stake. Another Chinese developer, China Vanke, is working with a ...

Chinese real estate investors 'go global'
Asia Property Report
The state-owned company recently acquired the USD5 billion Atlantic Yards mixed-use development in Brooklyn, New York, and is developing the 25,600 sqm billion-dollar Metropolis project in Los Angeles, California. Chinese investors have also purchased ...

KOMPAS.com
Dahsyat... Investor China Makin Mengepung AS!
KOMPAS.com
Greenland mencapai kesepakatan awal pada Oktober tahun lalu untuk membeli saham 70 persen atau senilai di 5 juta dollar AS untuk 000 pengembangan Atlantic Yards di Brooklyn, New York. Rencana itu menyusul kesepakatan pada Juli lalu untuk ...

Long Island Business News
Ratner calls for public transportation at Nassau Coliseum
Long Island Business News
Ratner said one of the reasons the Barclays Center – another Ratner creation – has been so successful since opening in Brooklyn about a year-and-a-half ago, was because of its proximity to the Atlantic Yards terminal – a major hub for bus, rail and ...

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Chinese Investments in US Commercial Real Estate Surges
Businessweek
Greenland reached a preliminary agreement in October to buy a 70 percent stake in the $5 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, New York. That followed a July deal to acquire a $1 billion residential-and-entertainment project in downtown Los ...

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Chinese Investments in U.S. Commercial Real Estate Surges
Bloomberg
Greenland reached a preliminary agreement in October to buy a 70 percent stake in the $5 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, New York. That followed a July deal to acquire a $1 billion residential-and-entertainment project in downtown Los ...

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Plan for community use of Barclays Center emerges
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Nonprofit groups in Brooklyn that wish to participate have until June 15 to submit applications and other paperwork to the DBNA, which is funded by Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner, which signed the CBA in 2005. A random drawing to choose ...

Plan for community use of Barclays Center emerges
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Nonprofit groups in Brooklyn that wish to participate have until June 15 to submit applications and other paperwork to the DBNA, which is funded by Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner, which signed the CBA in 2005. A random drawing to choose ...

Modular construction to result in lower worker wages
The Real Deal Magazine (blog)
Print; Tweet. Atlantic Yards rendering (Credit: SHoP) and Bruce Ratner. The modular construction approach at Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards will result in slashed wages, but union workers may still look upon it favorably even so, according to a ...

Historic downtown tower fetches $330M
Crain's New York Business
RXR Realty is also shopping around in the outer boroughs, where it just acquired a long term leasehold of 470 Vanderbilt Ave., an office building near Atlantic Yards at the edge of downtown Brooklyn. But downtown has remained an attractive place for ...

Rich Chinese overwhelm U.S. visa program
KETK
Supporters say immigrant investors have provided an important alternative source of financing, benefiting projects from Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards real estate development to a North Dakota factory that makes biodegradable food containers. But there are ...

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Rich Chinese overwhelm US visa program
12NewsNow.Com
Supporters say immigrant investors have provided an important alternative source of financing, benefiting projects from Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards real estate development to a North Dakota factory that makes biodegradable food containers. But there are ...

Rich Chinese overwhelm US visa program
KSPR
Supporters say immigrant investors have provided an important alternative source of financing, benefiting projects from Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards real estate development to a North Dakota factory that makes biodegradable food containers. But there are ...

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Biz-tsar turn! Nets owner wants to pass team offices to Russia
BrooklynPapers.com
Brooklyn Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is looking to pass the basketball team's corporate offices back to his mother country, apparently out of fear that a second Iron Curtain is descending as a result of Russia's contentious ...

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