2008-05-20T12:00:01.000-08:00 Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn contact@developdontdestroy.org http://www.dddb.net/ http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1462 2008-05-20T04:47:48.000-08:00

The Times reports that Bruce Ratner's favorite administrator at the Empire State Development Corporation, ESDC President Avi Schick, will be stepping down in September: Development Agency Is Losing Its President By Charles V.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1461 2008-05-19T08:08:08.000-08:00

Simon Houpt's column in the Toronto Globe and Mail attempts to take a look at the Atlantic Yards big picture by way of Frank Gehry -- Bruce Ratner's Canadian-born quotstarchitectquot: Not Mr.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1460 2008-05-18T08:50:40.000-08:00

The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), which is the the public authority quotoverseeingquot Ratner's Atlantic Yards proposal, is in disarray just like Atlantic Yards itself.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1459 2008-05-17T13:10:06.000-08:00

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn spokesman Daniel Goldstein has a column in this week's issue of The Indypendent: Billionaire Land Grab Crashes The Indypendent Bruce Ratners $4 billion, 22-acre, 16-skyscraper Atlantic Yards proposal is in jeopardy due to a perfect storm: turmoil in the credit markets, the demise of the real estate boom, the astronomical increases in construction material costs, a lack of available tax-free housing subsidies, relentless community opposition and vigorous state and federal litigation. Ratners dream of carrying out the largest development plan by a single developer in New York Citys history is on the precipice of failure.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1458 2008-05-16T12:26:12.000-08:00

Spring Cleaning? Donate Your Rummage... Please DONATE and VOLUNTEER for a day of Thrifty Shopping to raise money for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's court cases against the Atlantic Yards project and eminent domain abuse.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1457 2008-05-16T12:25:08.000-08:00

Last night Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn was honored to receive the Grassroots Preservation Award from the Historic Districts Council. We'd like to thank HDC for the award and recognition of our work.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1455 2008-05-16T11:06:23.000-08:00

From the Newark Star Ledger upon the opening tour of the new Bruce Ratner Frank Gehry New Jersey Nets Atlantic Yards Barclays Center Luxury Suite Showroom in the New York Times Tower: ...Yesterday's tour offered a glimpse of the planned Brooklyn arena's plush seats, kitchen facilities and pool table in a mock luxury box, with digital displays of the sightlines from each suite.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1454 2008-05-16T10:42:08.000-08:00

The Nets marketing guru explainson the occasion of the opening of a mock luxury skybox showroom in the New York Times Tower in Midtown Manhattan for the proposed Bruce Ratner Frank Gehry New Jersey Nets Atlantic Yards Barclays Center Luxury Suite Showroom that quotBrooklyn...is realquot.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1453 2008-05-16T10:18:44.000-08:00

The indomitable NoLandGrab is hip to the flimflam Brett Yormark is trying to sell. We republish NLG's posting in full, below: By the numbers Bergen Record The Nets kicked off sales Thursday of a portion of their luxury suites for the proposed Barclays Center, which they hope to open in Brooklyn by the end of 2010.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=1452 2008-05-16T09:15:23.000-08:00

Every lot a parking lot On his Atlantic Yards Report Norman Oder scrutinizes the FAQ on the relaunched Barclays Center (Atlantic Yards arena) website: Suites go on sale, timing unquestioned, ticket prices rise, parking prized ...Another element of the FAQ addressed parking: Q.