Atlantic Yards

Atlantic Yards-Area Civic Groups Urge State to Bring in More Developers
Patch.com
A coalition of Atlantic Yards-area civic groups are urging state officials to consider the idea of bringing in additional developers to speed construction at Atlantic Yards. Brooklyn Speaks issued a news release on the issue Wednesday morning in ...
Atlantic Yards Foes Demand Return To 10-Year Project PlanLaw360 (subscription)

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Atlantic Yards-Area Civic Groups Urge State to Bring in More Developers
Patch.com
A coalition of Atlantic Yards-area civic groups are urging state officials to consider the idea of bringing in additional developers to speed construction at Atlantic Yards. Brooklyn Speaks issued a news release on the issue Wednesday morning in ...
Atlantic Yards Foes Demand Return To 10-Year Project PlanLaw360 (subscription)

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Bruce Ratner's Home Courtship
Tablet Magazine
“To do it in Brooklyn was something that just seemed right.” As it happened, Perlman's old friend Bruce Ratner—the developer behind Barclays Center and its companion housing development, Atlantic Yards—had been thinking about bringing a Jewish act to ...

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Labor feud sparks pullout at Atlantic Yards hearing
Crain's New York Business (blog) (subscription)
On Wednesday evening, Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency, is holding a court-ordered hearing to take comments on its environmental impact study for Phase 2 of the Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards development. The New ...
Might Atlantic Yards project be affected by labor dispute?New York Business Journal

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Atlantic Yards-Area Civic Groups Urge State to Bring in More Developers
Patch.com
A coalition of Atlantic Yards-area civic groups are urging state officials to consider the idea of bringing in additional developers to speed construction at Atlantic Yards. Brooklyn Speaks issued a news release on the issue Wednesday morning in ...
Atlantic Yards Foes Demand Return To 10-Year Project PlanLaw360 (subscription)

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Real Estate Weekly
Ladies with designs on building tomorrow's world
Real Estate Weekly
MICHELLE BURCH. Burch discussed the “intensive” prototyping phase Forest City Ratner has been undergoing, which involves staging modules at a Brooklyn Navy Yard site before trucking them to the Atlantic Yards site and stacking them with a crane.

Craft vs. prefab: Why stick-built will stick around
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
"World's tallest" modular building could be this panelized concept for Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn. (Courtesy Forest City / SHoP Architects). Which brings up another key point in the prefab versus. stick-built debate: What of aesthetics? In Architect ...

Banks Stake Forest City To $465 Million Line of Credit
CoStar Group
More recently, the firm began construction on B2, the first of a dozen residential highrises planned for its Atlantic Yards redevelopment next to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. As a result, the firm has trimmed its under-construction pipeline well ...

The Bardvark: "All the Young Dudes Carry the News"-David Bowie: The Atlantic ...
my.hsj.org
On September 28, 2012, Jay-Z performed the first concert at Brooklyn's brand new Barclays Center. The opening of this new arena, along with millions of square feet in apartments, stores, and office spaces in the Atlantic Yards, on the corner of ...

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News 12 Brooklyn (subscription)
Atlantic Yards Completion Date Set?
The Brooklyn Game
The 32-story residential building that will sit right behind Barclays Center, at Dean Street and Flatbush Avenue, will reportedly be made available to low- and middle-income residents upon its erection next June. According to Ratner, about 182 of the ...
Atlantic Yards affordable housing project to be completed in June 2014News 12 Brooklyn (subscription)

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News 12 Brooklyn (subscription)
Atlantic Yards affordable housing project to be completed in June 2014
News 12 Brooklyn (subscription)
Officials marked a major Brooklyn milestone today when Officials to kick off next phase of Atlantic Yards project. Progress is being made on a highly anticipated Atlantic Yards housing project. Developer Bruce Ratner says that a 32-story residential ...

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Mac's Layup Drill: PJ Carlesimo the right guy for Brooklyn Nets
SILive.com
That doesn't mean the Nets are going to win an NBA title any time soon, or that they are stocked with superstars over at the old Atlantic Yards. But they are clearly headed in a positive direction at what is probably the most important moment in the ...

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BrooklynPapers.com
De-Forest City Ratner! Barclays builder wants to chop down 20 trees on Pacific ...
BrooklynPapers.com
The mega-builder that brought Brooklyn the Barclays Center is scheduled to chop down 20 young trees on the thoroughfare this week, increasing its impressive arboreal headcount while neighbors make a last ditch plea to authorities to halt the slaughter ...

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NY1
Residents Concerned About Tree Removal For Atlantic Yards Project
NY1
Residents in one Brooklyn neighborhood are bracing for still more changes now that the next part of the Atlantic Yards development is underway. But they're particularly concerned about one aspect of construction that alters the landscape. NY1's Jeanine ...
De-Forest City Ratner! Barclays builder wants to chop down 20 trees on Pacific ...BrooklynPapers.com
Forest City Ratner to chop down trees to clear path for construction at ...New York Daily News

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New York Daily News
Forest City Ratner to chop down trees to clear path for construction at ...
New York Daily News
It may take decades for these trees to grow in Brooklyn. Forest City Ratner is chopping down 20 trees on Pacific St. between Carlton and 6th avenues to clear the path for more construction at Atlantic Yards - but has no plans to replace them anytime soon.

Bryce Harper on Sports Illustrated Cover: Is He Cursed?
DCist.com
Last summer, for instance, Brooklyn Nets point guard Deron Williams showed up on a cover featuring his team's move from New Jersey to the Atlantic Yards. In December, Williams suffered an ankle injury from which he is only beginning to recover. Closer ...

On the Market: The UWS Is Full of Old People; 15 CPW Pad Sells for $32.5 M ...
New York Observer
Neighbors protest selling Brooklyn Heights library to a private developer. [Daily News] A look at inflation via the cost of a San Remo rental. [Bloomberg] Forest City is ripping out street trees before next phase of Atlantic Yards. [Brownstoner ...

Pacific Street to Lose 20 Street Trees—Indefinitely—to Atlantic Yards ...
Patch.com
Cotton says she's looking into giving them to either the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force, the Brooklyn Bears Community Garden on Flatbush and Pacific, or dividing them between the two. "We understand the community frustration and we feel the ...

To The Editor:
Queens Tribune
Less than a year ago and only a mile away from lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn parcel known as Atlantic Yards was reborn as the Barclays Center. The basketball arena has quickly demonstrated itself as an economic engine, attracting not only the Nets ...

Most Employees At Heavily-Subsidized Barclays Center Don't Have Health ...
Gothamist
However, Gib Veconi of the neighborhood advocacy group Brooklyn Speaks, argues that the lack of benefits and full time employment is highly disappointing, given the fact that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars went to subsidize the Atlantic Yards ...

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