2013-05-24T13:49:54.000-08:00 Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn contact@developdontdestroy.org http://www.dddb.net/ http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3091 2012-11-22T11:14:04.000-08:00

Will it be modular? Will it be affordable to Brooklyn families? Some of these questions might be answered.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3090 2012-11-22T11:09:50.000-08:00

We wish you and your loved ones a very happy holiday.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3089 2012-11-01T08:01:07.000-08:00

NY Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman has given a far more thoughtful review of Barclays Center/Atlantic Yards than his starchitect-kissing predecessors. In sum he says he likes the arena's design but hates Atlantic Yards. In this excerpt he channels DDDB and other project opponents, we've been saying roughly this same thing since 2004, and it is part of the demands made by the coalition responsible for the AY Crime Scene theme around the September 28th arena opening.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3088 2012-10-25T07:03:41.000-08:00

Marty Markowitz can't get his story straight, but it seems that he has finally come clean by going way off message about the nature of the near-decade long Atlantic Yards controversy. Seattle is grappling with its own arena controversy so their NBC news affiliate KING TV ran a short piece looking at the Barclays Center controversy as a quotlessonquot for Seattleites.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3087 2012-10-16T17:09:43.000-08:00

Ye Olde quotLandmarkquot Atlantic Yards "Community Benefits Agreement" has delivered one thing...a tiny blank-walled space to store wheelchairs (never mind it's supposed to be a "meditation room").

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3086 2012-10-16T13:55:53.000-08:00

What does it mean when a Manhattan based magazine's architecture critic blithely gets nearly all of his facts wrong, and in so doing erases a neighborhood's history? Michael D.D.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3085 2012-10-13T17:04:23.000-08:00

In honor of Barbra's return to her hometown or some ersatz version of it, as it were:

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3084 2012-10-12T21:02:31.000-08:00

Barclays Center VIP Lounge Issued Health Violation for Lack of Toilet PaperDNA.info, By Leslie Albrecht

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3083 2012-10-11T06:41:00.000-08:00

When City zoning regulations are overridden to allow an arena where City zoning regulations don't allow arenas, here is what you get: The first meeting of the Atlantic Yards Quality of Life Committee (QoLC).

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3082 2012-10-04T20:45:07.000-08:00

In case you've been wondering what benefits the community is getting out of the CBA, well, do luxury suites for Ratner's paid CBA partners work for you? Norman Oder and the Daily News report: Updated: Bertha Lewis's Black Institute auctioning suite access to Jay-Z to raise $25,000 all CBA signatories got free suites Signatories of the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), and/or the organizations they now run, are getting access to Barclays Center suites, and at least in one case, have been auctioning them off to raise money. Bertha Lewis, head of the now-disbanded ACORN, now heads the Black Institute, which offers this "Adopt-A-Dreamer" opportunity for tonight's show: President amp FoundernbspBertha Lewis Cordially invites you to support The Black Institute's "Adopt a Dreamer" Program by joining us for a Jay-Z concert at Brooklyn's Barclay Center.nbspDon't miss this opportunity for you and your guests to enjoy this landmark event from the comfort of a luxury suite.nbsp October 4, 2012 Barclay Center, Suite Level 7:00pm$2,500 per ticket $25,000 for entire suiteSuite amenities include access to suite level VIP lounges, tickets to concert, plush leather seating, mini wet bar and kitchen - perfect for food prep and bar set-up. Updated with Daily News article Erin Durkin of the Daily News got the story first, reporting (in an article not online) yesterday that each of the Community Benefits Agreement signatories got access to a Barclays Center suite for each of the Jay-Z concerts. This is part of a pledge to set aside a suite for each arena event for community access--only this time, they go as rewards to the signatories.