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]
some folks against may sound like children…but ugh! 11217, you sound so fake…do you work at FCR?
No parking!? Is it to late for me to cut the curb in front of my brownstone and charge for event parking?
yeah right! so you and your cronies will never go to the Barclays Center. I am sure you shop at Pathmark, gone to Targets lately? How about PC Richards and Modells? Those are all FCR properties too.
I think you are going to eat your words.
There will be a good bit of parking, initially in surface lots and later underground as the residential sections get built.
I expect that the amount of parking available on game nights will go down over time as the housing gets built and residents want to park their cars under their buildings.
Hopefully the LIRR will run extra trains before and after games to move people.
The terminal has plenty of capacity, although I do predict bottlenecks at the LIRR and subway stairs after games.
The Independent Budget Office is interesting. Its focus was on city and state tax revenues for the arena only
The findings were that over a 30 year period, they city will end up spending $40 million more than it takes in and the state will gain $25 million.
Total impact to the city and state government comes out to $500K a year for the arena. This is not good, but is certainly not a horror story.
It is pretty clear to me that the city and state governments did a poor job negotiating and writing a tight contract.
some enterprising dudes will make some nice coin providing valet services on event nights
Bob Marvin – Have you been to Lincoln Center?
“Suburbanites will not abandon their cars for public trans.”
Not sure about that. I’m guessing the majority of attendees at MSG events take public transportation to get there, at least for the portion of the commute that takes them right to the arena.
Is it true that, as I heard when first proposed, they are building NO parking facility for the arena? That’s crazy. Suburbanites will not abandon their cars for public trans. Never going to happen.