The Daily News reports on how the state has brought two property owners to court because they don’t want to let Atlantic Yards contractors touch their buildings, which the ESDC says they need access to in order “to shore and install tie-backs.” The buildings in question are 700 Atlantic Avenue, which the business Global Exhibition Services operates out of (shown above), and 718 Atlantic Avenue, which is a StorageMart. Forest City Ratner says it needs to do the work on the buildings in order to finish the Carlton Avenue Bridge, which must be complete before the arena opens. State officials say they’ll be able to do the work by partially condemning the properties if they have to, but a lawyer for Global Exhibition Services says there’s “no basis” for such a move under eminent domain laws. Atlantic Yards Report, which reported on the dispute last week, said that a judge has adjourned the matter until the end of the month. The buildings could eventually be seized by eminent domain either way in order to make way for future phases of Atlantic Yards.
Businesses Opposed to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project Dragged to Court [NY Daily News]
ESDC Seeks Access to Properties Not Yet Taken for Railyard Work [AY Report]
Photo from PropertyShark.


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  1. Well, the article doesn’t say they are holding out for money so that’s an assumption on anyone’s part. On the other hand, installing tiebacks under existing properties is a risky business- don’t tell me it isn’t. I lived through it. These are businesses-both are in a no-win situation with AY and basically any decision they make will most likely cost them their businesses. So why dump on them? How about ratner offer to pay for any damages to their property and offer them money for the access. They owe him nothing, and they could very well lose their property through eminent domain, now or down the road. So why should he expect their co-operation? If anyone doesn’t care about the community and the Carleton Bridge, it’s Ratner.

  2. they just figure if they can make life hard for Ratner they can extort more $ out of him (or I guess us, if you follow the anti AY propaganda) . Except really at the end of the day, the only people who suffer is the public…since it is the public that suffers from the construction, delays and closing of Carlton St Bridge.
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  3. Holy Cow – are you people going to go back and re-argue the whole AY debate again?????? Its done – the steel is up, and one way or another this thing is going to open. Dont you get bored rehashing the same tired arguments.
    And that is why these 2 business are being completely greedy. Do these owners think that after hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent, endless hearings, court proceedings and other due process – that somehow, Ratner is going to just walk away in frustration now??? No of course they dont think that, they just figure if they can make life hard for Ratner they can extort more $ out of him (or I guess us, if you follow the anti AY propaganda) . Except really at the end of the day, the only people who suffer is the public…since it is the public that suffers from the construction, delays and closing of Carlton St Bridge. But hey, if a f’ing storage building is against Ratner than I guess we should be on the side of an unsightly junk hut – cause hey – they are against Ratner.

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