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National Real Estate Investor
Forest City Would Attract Numerous Bidders, Activist Litt Says
National Real Estate Investor
Litt has been calling on Forest City -- best known for Pacific Park, its 6,430-unit mainly residential project in downtown Brooklyn, originally known as Atlantic Yards -- to explore options including a sale of the company. The Cleveland-based real ...

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Crain's Cleveland Business
Forest City Realty Trust would attract numerous bidders, activist investor says
Crain's Cleveland Business
Litt has been calling on Cleveland-based Forest City -- best known nationally for Pacific Park, its 6,430-unit mainly residential project in downtown Brooklyn, originally known as Atlantic Yards -- to explore options including a sale of the company ...

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Forest City Would Attract Numerous Bidders, Activist Litt Says ...
Bloomberg
Forest City Realty Trust Inc. would attract numerous bidders, including private equity firms and publicly traded landlords, were the company to put itself up for ...

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BKLYNER
The Actual Odds Of Winning The Affordable Housing Lottery
BKLYNER
City Limits decided to look at the actual applicant pool for Pacific Park development (aka Atlantic yards) to see what they would learn. After filing a ... The median income in Brooklyn, according to census, is still only about $50,000 per household ...

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BKLYNER
The Actual Odds Of Winning The Affordable Housing Lottery
BKLYNER
City Limits decided to look at the actual applicant pool for Pacific Park development (aka Atlantic yards) to see what they would learn. After filing a ... The median income in Brooklyn, according to census, is still only about $50,000 per household ...

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BKLYNER
The Actual Odds Of Winning The Affordable Housing Lottery
BKLYNER
City Limits decided to look at the actual applicant pool for Pacific Park development (aka Atlantic yards) to see what they would learn. After filing a ... The median income in Brooklyn, according to census, is still only about $50,000 per household ...

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City Limits
The Real Math of An Affordable Housing Lottery: Huge Disconnect Between Need and Allotment
City Limits
In a January press message, the developers of Pacific Park Brooklyn suggested “the demand for affordable housing in the borough is tremendous,” citing more than 84,000 applications for 181 units at 461 Dean and “roughly 95,000 applications” for 297 ...

Archinect
Frank Gehry, Architectural Education, and the “Future of Prisons”
Archinect
His unrealized designs for Barclays Center and the Atlantic Yards megaproject in Brooklyn provoked widespread protest from the surrounding community before they were tabled. He also designed the embattled scheme for a Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which ...

The Guardian
Immigrant investor program under fresh scrutiny as Chinese president visits US
The Guardian
... of the largest projects to take EB-5 cash is the $4.9bn Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, renamed Pacific Park in 2014 after the Chinese government-owned Shanghai Greenland Group bought a 70% stake in 15 residential towers under development.

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Business Insider
11 billion-dollar mega-projects that will transform New York City by 2035
Business Insider
Formerly known as Atlantic Yards, the $6 billion Pacific Park project will bring 6,430 new apartments (2,250 of which will be priced below market rate), an eight-acre park, and a variety of shops to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The site already boasts ...

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Business Insider
11 billion-dollar mega-projects that will transform New York City by 2035
Business Insider
Formerly known as Atlantic Yards, the $6 billion Pacific Park project will bring 6,430 new apartments (2,250 of which will be priced below market rate), an eight-acre park, and a variety of shops to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The site already boasts ...

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Worcester Telegram
Wall and Main: Why Gillette Stadium isn't named after ModusLink Global Solutions
Worcester Telegram
That was when Barclays, a British bank which in 2007 agreed to pay $400 million to put its name for 20 years on a stadium at the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, got into big trouble. More specifically, Barclay's CEO resigned after paying $450 ...

New Republic
Why Lying Is So Easy for Trump
New Republic
The real estate mogul Bruce Ratner dangled star architect Frank Gehry before city officials when seeking approval for the arena that would anchor his enormous Atlantic Yards development in downtown Brooklyn. Once the deal was in place, however, Gehry ...

Curbed NY
Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital redevelopment is now 'River Park'
Curbed NY
It's not surprising that Fortis would go the rebranding route now that plans have solidified: Back in 2014, Forest City Ratner did the same thing with Atlantic Yards after committing to a plan to fast-track that particular megaproject; and thus, it ...

City Limits
CityViews: Emerging Kushner Deal Suggests What's Wrong With US Investor Visa Program
City Limits
When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio met Zhang Yuliang, chairman of the Shanghai-based company that is now the lead investor in the joint venture behind the Atlantic Yards (now Pacific Park) project in Brooklyn, that photo was soon used in EB-5 ...

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New York Post
Massive Target store coming to Midtown
New York Post
Target already has a smaller-format store in Tribeca at 255 Greenwich St., while larger ones are at East River Plaza in Harlem and Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Still-smaller Target stores are in the works: one at Gary Barnett's 400 E. 14th St. that will ...

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DNAinfo
New Four & Twenty Shop To Add Turmeric Custard, Buckeye Pie to the Mix
DNAinfo
She and her sister, Melissa, who founded the shop together in Gowanus in 2010, chose Dean Street for their third location in part because of its proximity to the Barclays Center and the 20-acre Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) complex being built ...

Community Board 2 Meeting, Talks Film Festival
Western Queens Gazette
Being from Brooklyn, she takes matters like the Atlantic Yards housing project and the Barclay Center Arena quite seriously. The principal builder is Forest City Ratner, and she said that its chief executive, Bruce Ratner, sold the arena to the ...