In an interview with Crain’s, Bruce Ratner is guarded about the shape of things to come for Atlantic Yards, refusing to talk about the development’s timeline or when/whether it will include office towers. Ratner also declines to share current designs for AY, saying, This isn’t a public project. We will follow the guidelines. Develop Don’t Destroy quickly published a rebuttal to Ratner’s statement, saying, “Presumably this means he’ll return all the public money he has gotten and is supposed to get and renounce eminent domain for the project.” Few new details about Atlantic Yards come to light in the profile, and it’s perhaps most notable for Ratner’s hell-or-high-water statements: He says he’s “not nervous” about it happening and speaks with what AY Report calls “some not necessarily warranted optimism” when saying “we’ll figure something out” if the Court of Appeals rules against the use of eminent domain.
Tenacious B [Crain's]
Crain’s Calls Ratner “Tenacious;” Wouldn’t “Desperate” and “Strategic” Also Apply? [AY Report]
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