Opening Date Set for Barclays Center
The Brooklyn Paper and Patch report that Atlantic Yards’ Barclays Center will open on September 28th of next year. Nets CEO Brett Yormark says the official opening will be preceded by public tours and events at the arena. Work on the facade is expected to begin in June; at present, 70 percent of foundation work…
The Brooklyn Paper and Patch report that Atlantic Yards’ Barclays Center will open on September 28th of next year. Nets CEO Brett Yormark says the official opening will be preceded by public tours and events at the arena. Work on the facade is expected to begin in June; at present, 70 percent of foundation work is complete and 30 percent of the structure’s steel is in place, according to Patch.
Barclays Center to open on Sept. 28, 2012 [BK Paper]
Barclays Center Will Open Sept. 28, 2012 [PH Patch]
“A lot of folk forget that it was also built using eminent domain.”
Who forgets that?
Daniel Goldstein is a poster child for both sides of the issue.
An arena is the sort of use of eminant domain that almost all legal and urban planning experts agree is totally appropriate.
There are almost always traffic agents at Atlantic/4th and 4th/Flatbush.
Some are good and some are not so good in directing traffic.
However, now matter how good they are there is always more cars than the intersections can handle during rush hours.
At the evening rush hour there are traffic agents at 6th Av. & Flatbush accomplishing zip while down near 4th there is unmanned chaos.
boerum Hill, it aint a choice now. it aint an option now. Ratner got his public money. dont like it at all. but given we cant take that public money back, it’s SPILLED MILK.
“Of course; apples and oranges!”
A lot of folk forget that it was also built using eminent domain.
Can’t hardly wait. As tybur says, very dramatic indeed.
“This Arena will be a stand alone building surrounded by surfact parking lots for the next 15-20 years”
You know this for a fact, how? You were also one of the people saying the Arena would never be built in the first place. You have no idea what will happen.
If the Arena is such a great idea and there is so much pent up demand, then it should pay for itself and not require public subsidies. This Arena will be a stand alone building surrounded by surfact parking lots for the next 15-20 years until the developer is able to bribe the next generation of public officials into providing the next round of public subsidies to build his next crap building.
I was in a bus approaching the Atlantic Terminal this morning. Eventually, I got off the bus and walked, because the traffic was so bad, walking was faster. There were THREE traffic cops trying to calm the traffic at that crazy intersection. All I could think about was, “Thank goodness we’re not about to add to the traffic in this intersection, right!?”
(And yes, I recognize that most events will not happen during the morning rush. But the traffic there is pretty snarled up around the clock.)
I do not believe people will take public transit to come from outside of the city. I hope I am wrong.