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Arena To Open the First of Never
First Forest City Ratner said their arena would open in 2006. Then they said 2009.
Now they say maybe 2010. Next...never.
We don't think the arena is ever going to be built.
As Norman Oder explains today, on his Atlantic Yards Report, yesterday's
bizarre barrage of non-news-news stories that Forest City Ratner now says their
proposed Barclays Center arena will not open until 2010, "the
real story is 2011, not 2010." The change in Ratner's mantra
from a 2009 season opening to a 2010 season opening has been reported numerous
times, as recently as December 12th in a NY
Times
article. (Oddly the Times
published the AP article about 2010 today even though reported the identical
story back in December). Oder explains why a 2010
season arena opening is basically an impossibility based on the developer's
own proposed construction timeline.
NoLandGrab takes the press to task and exclaims "Look
who just caught on!", referring to the non-news-news. Referring to the
Forest City spin machine NLG writes:
Ratner's PR team had totally failed to manage expectations earlier
in 2007--even though Atlantic Yards watchdog Norman Oder had already recognized
the signs of a delay in the arena opening--and they're doing it again. Spokesperson
Barry Baum's attempt to spin the story is already leaning toward fiction...
And in analyzing Ratner spokesman Barry Baum's comments in a New
York Daily (non) News article--"We plan to be in the Barclays Center
during the 2010 calendar year," said Barry Baum, a spokesman for the NBA
team that has played in New Jersey since 1977. "That could mean the latter
part of the 2009-2010 season."--No
Land Grab
wrote:
...So Ratner's new story is that maybe the Nets might play some of
the 2009-2010 season in Brooklyn, or maybe not, but probably definitely not
before 2010?
Posted: 1.04.08
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