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.
Sunnyside Yard vs. Atlantic Yards: a Huge Contrast in (Proposed) Scale and Process (link)
12,000 units (or even 24,000) over 140 acres vs. 9,000 units over 22 acres? The ingredients for real planning in Queens vs. a massaged, opaque process in Brooklyn?
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