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The Bridge
Forest City in Brooklyn: a Real Estate Pioneer on the Way Out?
The Bridge
“A proven visionary,” Downtown Brooklyn Partnership co-chair Bob Catell proclaimed at a 2009 public meeting, saying Ratner “was willing to take risks on Downtown Brooklyn when few others were.” Barclays Center, which opened in 2012 and brought major ...

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Pol: Protect schools with high tech tools
Brooklyn Daily
During the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley tried to find various locations for construction of a new baseball stadium, which he pledged to finance using his own funds. With limited seating and automobile parking capacity at Ebbets Field ...

The Island Now
Readers Write: What might have been with Brooklyn Dodgers
The Island Now
During the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley tried to find various locations for construction of a new baseball stadium, which he pledged to finance using his own funds. With limited seating and automobile parking capacity at Ebbets Field ...

The Island Now
Readers Write: What might have been with Brooklyn Dodgers
The Island Now
During the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley tried to find various locations for construction of a new baseball stadium, which he pledged to finance using his own funds. With limited seating and automobile parking capacity at Ebbets Field ...

The Bridge
As Brooklyn Towers Reach for the Sky, How Big Is Too Big?
The Bridge
Thus the proposal from Dumbo-based Alloy, best-known for moderate-scale projects like the award-winning One John Street in Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Dumbo Townhouses, has drawn support from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Transportation ...

Curbed NY
The life and death of Willets Point
Curbed NY
Directed by Prudence Katze and William Lehman, it illuminates the Bloomberg-era skulduggery that helped doom the neighborhood, making a clear case that the destruction of Willets Point is the same kind of multi-billion-dollar boondoggle that has ...

Commercial Observer
Let's Get Frank: Gehry on New York, LA and the Future of Design
Commercial Observer
You were working on Pacific Park [formerly Atlantic Yards] in Brooklyn originally, but that didn't go forward. They switched gears. That didn't go [forward] because it hit the recession. That's a complication that has nothing to do with architecture. I ...

Commercial Observer
Why Construction Firm McKissack Added Natural Disaster Relief to Its Repertoire
Commercial Observer
(The Brooklyn hospital suffered from major flooding during Superstorm Sandy and lost its power grid and emergency room.) The project is expected to be completed in 2020. Representatives from NBBJ and Turner did not immediately respond to inquires ...

The Jewish Voice
4 Major Brooklyn Projects for this Coming Century Introduced
The Jewish Voice
The report also calls for major investments by the city, state and feds are encouraged to develop many previously overlooked areas in Brooklyn. The chamber argues that it was funding by the government for projects like Atlantic Yards and the New York ...

The Red Hook Star-Revue
AECOM & the Chamber of commerce want to tell us how to live, an essay by George Fiala
The Red Hook Star-Revue
Affordable housing and parks come to mind for any new use of the piers. There are other possibilities—museum, entertainment venue and schools come to mind. All living happily alongside a smaller container terminal. AECOM and the Brooklyn Chamber of ...

Inhabitat
Steven Holl Architects unveils funky “Parachute Hybrids” residences for Moscow
Inhabitat
Erik Churchill: We're going into construction on the B2, the world's tallest modular building at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. It integrates design and fabrication in a cutting-edge way. Steven Colletta: The Culture Shed at Hudson Yards is a 200,000 sq ...

Crain's New York Business
Four big projects for Brooklyn's next 100 years
Crain's New York Business
It links government help for the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge and the Atlantic Yards project to the borough's economic renaissance. “We have to start asking what's next for Brooklyn, and how do we make sure that this place stays as cool as ...

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Four big projects for Brooklyn's next 100 years
Crain's New York Business
It links government help for the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge and the Atlantic Yards project to the borough's economic renaissance. "We have to start asking what's next for Brooklyn, and how do we make sure that this place stays as cool as ...

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Four big projects for Brooklyn's next 100 years
Crain's New York Business
It links government help for the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge and the Atlantic Yards project to the borough's economic renaissance. "We have to start asking what's next for Brooklyn, and how do we make sure that this place stays as cool as ...

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Gotham Gazette
The real value of New York Islanders' Belmont deal? Cuomo administration won't say
Gotham Gazette
When Gov. Andrew Cuomo held a triumphant press conference on Dec. 20 to announce that the New York Islanders would return home to Long Island, building a new arena and ancillary retail, office, hotel space at Belmont Park, his economic development ...

Gotham Gazette
The real value of New York Islanders' Belmont deal? Cuomo administration won't say
Gotham Gazette
When Gov. Andrew Cuomo held a triumphant press conference on Dec. 20 to announce that the New York Islanders would return home to Long Island, building a new arena and ancillary retail, office, hotel space at Belmont Park, his economic development ...

Crain's New York Business
Prince's former manager Londell McMillan explains Jay-Z's beef with him
Crain's New York Business
A lawyer and entrepreneur who has represented Prince, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, Londell McMillan now manages three of Prince's heirs and owns The Source, a music magazine financed through his investment firm The NorthStar Group. He tweeted ...

Bisnow
Brookfield Has Entered Discussions To Buy Forest City
Bisnow
Forest City has been engaged in a sell-off of some of its real estate holdings, most recently selling 25% of its 30% stake in its Brooklyn megaproject, Pacific Park, to its joint venture partner, Chinese firm Greenland Holdings. Its New York City CEO ...

ACORN's Original Sin
Reason (blog)
As my colleague Damon Root has reported, ACORN allied itself with Bruce Ratner, the real estate and sports tycoon who is using eminent domain to seize and demolish private homes and small businesses in Brooklyn, allowing him to build a 22-acre ...

Washington Business Journal
Forest City in takeover talks with Brookfield
Washington Business Journal
It also manages Pacific Park, a 6,430-unit mainly residential project in downtown Brooklyn — originally known as Atlantic Yards. Deal talks could still fall apart since other bidders may also emerge for the Cleveland-based Forest City, the report ...