Closing Bell: Atlantic Yards Deathwatch
No Land Grab has checked in with a perpetually updating Web site called, subtly enough, Atlantic Yards Deathwatch; guess they’re pretty sure the project won’t see the light of day. The site has a live count-up clock, chronicling the days since Bruce Ratner unveiled the scheme to reinvent the railyards and the surrounding area. So…
No Land Grab has checked in with a perpetually updating Web site called, subtly enough, Atlantic Yards Deathwatch; guess they’re pretty sure the project won’t see the light of day. The site has a live count-up clock, chronicling the days since Bruce Ratner unveiled the scheme to reinvent the railyards and the surrounding area. So far: 1,803.
Ratner’s problem is that the only thing he really wants to build is that Nets arena and Dan Goldstein happens to live right where he wants to put center court. Thank goodness Dan’s tenacity was enough to inspire a concerted effort at exposing this sham, and delaying it long enough for its true nature as a scam to be revealed in a time when people are realizing that we can’t keep throwing taxpayer money at unscrupulous developers.
I hope this deathwatch isn’t premature.
Still doesn’t beat Ground Zero !
yeah, why doesn’t Ratner build already? what is his problem?
I actually wish someone would build on the empty piece of waste land…..
enough already with the crying lets get out arena, i don’t see what all the fuss is about!
Unfortunately, probably the only money Ratner lost in this whole debacle is the $50 million we already gave him to, ahem, finance affordable housing. Still, suppose it’s better we waste $50 million of taxpayer money than the $2 billion we were going to give him.
Even Norman Oder has written that the ‘Atlantic Yards death watch’ is over-stating the current situation, and he is hardly neutral himself. Just more propaganda, the flip-side of Ratner announcing that he’s going to break ground in December … as if there are a lot of people out there that haven’t figured out where they stand on the issue.
why is the No Land Grab posting written as if they aren’t hosting the deathwatch?
No land grab talked about all of the great things that could happen to the site if Ratner didnt build on it.
Now, let’s see them build consensus for an economically viable plan that will fix a giant hole in the ground.
PS I bet Ratner will sell the nets on the cheap at this point.