This watchdog blog, by journalist Norman Oder, covers the project to build the Barclays Center arena and 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 Shanghai-based Greenland USA took a majority share. Forest City left in 2018. Eight towers and the arena have been built. After a stall, Cirrus and LCOR in 2025 took over as master developers. A plan to complete the project is pending.
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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