Gehry Officially Off Yards Project
The writing’s been on the wall for some time, but The Times delivered the official death blow in an online article yesterday afternoon: “Frank Gehry is out as the architect for the Barclays Center arena, the centerpiece of the long-delayed and financially challenged Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, according to government officials and real estate…
The writing’s been on the wall for some time, but The Times delivered the official death blow in an online article yesterday afternoon: “Frank Gehry is out as the architect for the Barclays Center arena, the centerpiece of the long-delayed and financially challenged Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, according to government officials and real estate executives who have been briefed on the plans.” Taking the reins post-bait-and-switch will be a Kansas City-based architecture firm called Ellerbe Becket. Unfortunately for all of us, The Times describes the new design as bearing a resemblance to Conseco Field as well as an “airplane hangar.” Meanwhile, Atlantic Yards Report notes that Forbes is putting the odds of the Nets making it to Brooklyn at 50-50.
Developer Drops Gehry’s Design for Brooklyn Arena [NY Times]
FCR Names New Architect for Brooklyn Arena [Reuters]
Starchitect Dumped from Atlantic Yards for Cheaper Option [NY Daily News]
Star Architect Out of Arena Project [NY Post]
grip100692 – your arguments are getting desperate now…..your original premise was that people who are rich enough to afford to buy in Ratner’s buildings wouldnt live with “poor” people. Now you are changing it to say that AY will push out the poor people.
Well 1st you cant “push” out the projects, they are protected as low income housing; second in virtually every “rich” neighborhood you cited, except maybe the upper east-side there are ‘projects’ alongside very expensive homes – ever been to boreum hill? and you know what – for the most part people seem to manage fine. Finally AY is nowhere near the projects on Myrtle Ave
11217, where are u in Argentina?
I’m not saying the projects aren’t done bkre I’m saying that they are not (most) desirable to a potential buyer. Only to the developer who’s getting the tax credits.
As for the $400K to $20K comparision. Its to include all the people living on and around the Myrtle Ave projects and the Fort Green projects that are all neighbors of this development who clearly go unthought of and are slowly but surely getting pushed out. Are you going to act like they don’t exist? Just going to build around them and hope we all get along?
For a good read on neighborhood incomes just go to propertyshark.com with an address from that neighborhood. It’ll show you all the recent data at the end of every house listing.
“must be nice – isn’t this vacation number 5 already? ha”
Yeah, well…more like 2 so far but I just bought a small place in Argentina 2 months ago and am making good use of the place so far!
“getting ready to leave for vacation tomorrow for 10 days”
must be nice – isn’t this vacation number 5 already? ha
fsrg, your 12:31 post says it all. I couldn’t agree more and our viewpoints on this issue are in complete agreement.
Bxgrl – I originally opposed the “unity” plan because IMO it was not dense enough given the location, had no commercial component and I wanted an arena (for the reasons stated above) – was it viable – I do not know but building over the railyards is definitely expensive and I suspect that the upside might not have been there as conceived. Also it seemed a bit too beloved by the AY opposition who generally would have been expected to oppose something like that – and I suspect that it was touted as a tactic to stop Ratner, and had it been pursued, groups would have bitterly fought building that plan as well. That being said – given where we are now – I would take that plan if it was on the table (its not and wont be)
MM – the fact that there needs to be housing built for people who make $25K a year does not mean that there is no value in building housing for those who are slighlty better off and make $60/year. Those relatively better-off families also need assistance in in finding affordable housing.