FCR to Start Demo'ing a Dozen Buildings Next Week
Forest City Ratner is preparing to demolish twelve buildings an begin asbestos removal on twelve more in the footprint of the proposed Atlantic Yards development. Those scheduled for a date with the wrecking ball include six on Pacific Street, three on Flatbush Avenue (Numbers 193, 191, 189, in montage above), two on Vanderbilt Avenue and…
Forest City Ratner is preparing to demolish twelve buildings an begin asbestos removal on twelve more in the footprint of the proposed Atlantic Yards development. Those scheduled for a date with the wrecking ball include six on Pacific Street, three on Flatbush Avenue (Numbers 193, 191, 189, in montage above), two on Vanderbilt Avenue and one on Dean Street. (See the map on the jump.) Minority contracting firms will pull down another $2 million as part of this next phase, which is expected to last five months. Atlantic Yards Report notes that Ward Bakery, a concern of preservationists, was omitted from the list.
Ratner Readies Wrecking Ball [NY Post]
FCR Announces Demolitions [AY Report]
Demolition Would Create “Facts on the Ground” [No Land Grab]
Press Release 3/1/07 [Atlantic Yards]
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark
what do you guys think will happen with the property values of mixed use buildings on the surrounding streets?
park slopes 7th ave? prospect heights vanderbilt? flatbush ave?
To FGer: the problem with people like you is that you’re only happy if you’re surrounded by “people like you”. That’s why NY SUCKS now. It’s a culture of robots focused on sameness; people who like to sit around and talk about the sameness of their aquisistions, their offspring, and their real estate. AY is progress for you because it eliminates the prospect of continued diversity and new buildings mean progress. YOU are why all of NY looks like West Broadway in Soho and because you can’t afford to live there, you want to recreate it everywhere else (at the taxpayers expense).
Ticky Tacky Children of Baby Boomers LOVE the idea of living in a mall. It’s what happened to Manhattan and Brooklyn is next. Soon all of Brooklyn will be covered in strollers with their distressed breeders demanding all things “children friendly” including bars, gyms, and other formerly adult environments. Atlantic Yards is just the begining. Fighting is futile.
If Brooklyn is booming, then why are we paying for this?
Do what you want, but not on my dime.
pretty funny- except for shahn and the ever-obnoxious idiot-not-very-savant david, this whole thread sounds like the troll having discussions with his many personalitiies a la Sybil.
D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!
Can’t wait for constuction to start. I’ve been living in Ft Greene for the last 8 years and I’m so over the sleepy, suburban feeling of this place. It will be like living in Soho again with traffic jams on side streets, horns honking, tourists gawking and offering to buy my apartment sight unseen, high-heeled babes. Awesome! Oh, and that jouyous vibe on the street after the Nets lose. Cool. Look how things changed for the better when Atlantic Center was thrown up. And how about all those jobs that were created for my less fortunate/under educated neighbors. Ever tried buying a TV at Target? Who needs Manhattan (or Paramus for that matter?) AY will give us our own little slice of Sex and The City and I’m for anything that will drive up my property value. Now I can charge $2,500 a month for my basement apartment! Yahoo! Shiny, precious restaurants, hopefully a Banana Republic or a Coach store. Fuck history. I want to live in a Mall, damnit!
Anon@1:40 -“If all this were true, I bet FCR could still make a mint. Would you project proponents be opposed to these ideas?”
Are you willing to make other ridiculously stupid bets, I could use the $ – Bruce has cut the amount he pays per message.
FYI @ all the conspiracy theorists – I am joking re: the pay per message thing
If a developer was legally bound to do all of that as a requirement to develop the Vanderbilt Yards Anon 1:40, I think most AY opponents would support the project 100%. Unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in or the developer the city chose to do this deal.