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.
The article is fairly accurate---I was there on Tuesday evening and basically liked its old style feel and laid back unpretentious atmosphere. But it now located on an avenue that within a small radius contains several new bars. So in addition to its own unique identity, it becomes another of the glut of new bars in the area. Will that give it a new feel? Will the young people who mostly inhabit the surrounding area click in to the politics and history of the bar, or simply ignore that aspect of it? It will be interesting to see how that develops.
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