BSE Global plans to transform shuttered Modell's building across from arena into Brooklyn Basketball Training Center, by fall. "Community-first"?
Modell's, Dec. 2024. Photo: Norman Oder As first announced last September ( link ), BSE Global--owner of the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, and the Barclays Center operating company--will transform empty ex-Modell's store across from arena for its Brooklyn Basketball youth programs, at least until new towers are built. Modell's closed in the late summer of 2020, after the parent faced bankruptcy. A plan for two large towers at the parcel known as Site 5, which still has the operating P.C. Richard store, has gotten support from Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds Atlantic Yards. The BSE Global rendering is suspiciously traffic-free However, that requires a new public process for approval, given the transfer of bulk from the unbuilt B-1 tower once slated to loom over the arena, and likely is entangled in the larger negotiation over the fate of the six railyard development sites. In other words, it's several years off. So this tr...