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]
Perhaps people have in mind all the domed stadiums built in the 1980s that held 70,000-80,000 people and tried to support football, baseball, basketball, concerts, and other events.
Most of those ended up being failures and many have since been imploded.
That is not what is being built here.
“FINE, then I’m NOT GOING! shout the opponents.
VERY mature.”
11217, to be fair, this is pretty much just putting their money where their mouths are. I respect that their opposition to the arena is principled. Money talks. If enough people stayed away because they don’t like the way AY was pushed through, it would change the cost-benefit calculus next time someone like Ratner wants to do a project like this.
More importantly, BoreumHillScott, an arena holds about 15-20K people and a stadium is more like 40-50K.
People need to get a grip. When you call this a stadium, you lose every ounce of credibility because you just sound like a drama queen.
“It’s been shown over & over again that stadia do not contribute much to the economy, to jobs or to the quality of life, particularly in a residential area”
Once again, this is an arena, not a stadium.
Why do opponents keep trying to pretend that they are the same thing? There is a huge difference between a facility that hosts 15-30 events a year and one that hosts 150-300 events a year.
In addition, the arena is in a mixed area, not a residential one.
It also happens to be right next to one of the larger transit facilities in the country.
The people against this project sound like children.
FINE, then I’m NOT GOING! shout the opponents.
VERY mature.
“already-drunk hockey fans stumbling around in their Rangers jerseys clearly looking for a fight”
Ok, at least the opponents are totally rational.
I hate to admit it but I’m more worked up, at this point, about the fact that they might end up being the New York Nets and not the Brooklyn Nets.
My question is – walking by this thing, the steel beams going up have looked especially rusty to me. Is that normal?
BABS:
Loosen up seriously. That area has been brutal forever. This cant make it any worse. Maybe you should move to the country so you dont have to deal with cars, people, sporting events and so on.
Trying to navigate the streets around MSG last night while dodging commuters running full speed to catch their trains, already-drunk hockey fans stumbling around in their Rangers jerseys clearly looking for a fight, and ticket-sellers of apparently varying degrees of legitimacy, I just thought to myself how the area surrounding this massive misuse of public money will be totally and irrevocably screwed. It’s already an automobile traffic nightmare; add the sorts of “sports fans” like the MSG crowd and you’ve got a place I for one will never go anywhere near at the time of any sort of event.