Another Anti-AY Suit Gets Tossed
Atlantic Yards opponents have lost one of the very last legal challenges against the mega-project, according to a statement just released by Forest City Ratner. The United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, has denied an appeal to a lawsuit challenging the development’s use of eminent domain. No word yet from Develop Don’t Destroy, but…
Atlantic Yards opponents have lost one of the very last legal challenges against the mega-project, according to a statement just released by Forest City Ratner. The United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, has denied an appeal to a lawsuit challenging the development’s use of eminent domain. No word yet from Develop Don’t Destroy, but here’s what Bruce Ratner had to say: “Today’s decision is more than another victory for Atlantic Yards…It is a victory for public good and the importance of investing in diverse communities throughout the City. Atlantic Yards will bring thousands of affordable homes and needed jobs to Brooklyn. We believe, and the courts have repeatedly agreed, that these are real benefits that will have a significantly positive impact on the borough and the City. The decision means the only lawsuit still pending against Atlantic Yards is an appeal regarding the project’s environmental impact statement.
Federal Court Rejects Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Appeal [The Real Estate]
Main Atlantic Yards Suit Dismissed [Curbed]
Anti-AY Lawsuits: And Then There Was One [Brownstoner]
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D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!
ok johnny. explain then.
Correction to post at 10:31 in caps –
A developer wants US to spend BILLIONS to bring HIS professional sports franchise here.
“I guess you haven’t heard your own perspective then. BrooklynLove? More like BrooklynDisrespect.”
a developer wants to spend millions to bring a professional sports franchise and large scale high-end residential, commercial and retail real estate to a site in brooklyn that is for the most part an unused relic. this is disrespect? your sense of reality is warped.
The use of ED centeres around the constitutionality of the “compelling interest”?
Using that standard there is a compelling interest to see development take place just not just Ratner’s planned development.
And in economic terms, one could argue that if the state was looking to enhance “community benefit” that could have been best accomplished by building a platform over the yards and then seeking RFP’s!!!
“only people i know of who are not happy with the development are EDd property owners and displaced residents.
truthfully, most people i encounter who are against this project, never go around the area, have no connection to it, and are just generally against anything involving EmmD.”
Very odd — on the one hand, some people say we’re all NIMBYs, and this person the opposite.
How about we’re both — some live in the area, some don’t, but we can all recognize that this scam stinks to high heaven — and our numbers are growing every day.
No worries, folks. AY is quickly unraveling due to economic inviability.
I guess you haven’t heard your own perspective then. BrooklynLove? More like BrooklynDisrespect.
“imitating Manhattan”
seriously? is that really how you view this development? i hope you’re in the strong minority of AY opponents b/c this may be the most out of touch perspective i’ve ever heard.