[This had been dated Dec. 31 to stay at the top of the blog homepage, but I'm moving it down for breaking news.]Someone asked me what I thought was the most important piece of information about the Atlantic Yards plan that hadn't gotten through to the general public. I said it was the scale of the project, depicted visually. (Saying "densest residential community in the country" only goes so far.) Details here.
This watchdog blog, by journalist Norman Oder, concerns the $6B project to build the Barclays Center arena & 15-16 towers at a crucial site in Brooklyn. Dubbed Atlantic Yards by developer Forest City Ratner in 2003, it was rebranded Pacific Park Brooklyn in 2014 after the Chinese government-owned Greenland USA bought a 70% stake going forward. In 2018, once the arena & four towers were built, Greenland bought out most of Forest City's stake, then sold three leases to other companies.
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