The Daily News is reporting today that Bruce Ratner is preparing to offer those tenants living on the site of his future sports complex a deal that will be difficult to pass up:

Ratner will offer all displaced tenants new apartments in one of his soaring Frank Gehry-designed towers for the same rent they now pay. Ratner also will pay for tenants to move to a new apartment nearby and subsidize their rent until they move back…He now owns 60 of the 97 rental apartments on the site along with more than 90% of the condos and coops. Ratner is negotiating with tenants in 22 apartments of the 60 he owns; 25 of the 60 are empty. Residents not interested in moving into the new high-rise complex will be offered cash. A Ratner spokesman declined to say how much.

Ratner Sweetens the Deal [NY Daily News]