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Ground Frozen, Not Broken
When the Atlantic Yards project was unveiled in December 2003, Forest City Ratner
said the arena would open for the 2006 basketball season.
When the project received political approval by three-men-in-a-room in December 2006, the developer said the arena would
open for the 2009 basketball season.
In December 2007, Ratner once again cried
wolf and told the NY Times, after it was abundantly clear
to everyone, that the arena would
open for the 2010 basketball season.
But Norman Oder, on his Atlantic Yards Report, provided ample
evidence that the earliest the arena could open would be for the 2011
basketball season. And today John Brennan reports similarly in the Bergen
Record, including a near admission by Nets spokesman Barry Baum that the
2011 season would be the earliest arena opening. (That is, of course, if it ever opens at all). From the Record:
Nets
will shoot around in N.J. for another year
The Nets basketball franchise, which has called New Jersey home since 1977, have
committed to play the 2009-10 season in the Garden State as it waits for its new
arena in Brooklyn to be built.
Team spokesman Barry Baum confirmed a delay in the long-touted move to the new
Barclays Center in Brooklyn planned for 2009.
"We plan to be in at the Barclays Center during the 2010 calendar
year," Baum said.
The Nets' lease with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority requires the
Nets to give the agency at least 18 months written notice before leaving the Izod
Center in East Rutherford. That meant that the club had until Dec. 31 to give
intent of a move to Brooklyn in the fall of 2009.
"We have not received any such notice from the Nets," sports authority
President Dennis Robinson said Wednesday, while confirming the resulting commitment
required of the team.
...
Construction of National Basketball Association arenas typically takes 24 months,
and the Nets have yet to break ground on their site near downtown
Brooklyn. If the Nets are unable to begin arena construction by this summer,
they may also need to spend part or all of the 2010-11 season in New
Jersey.
The Nets have annual options through the 2012-13 season to remain at the Izod
Center, with 18 months' notice required of a planned franchise
relocation.
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Baum said that the Nets would break ground on the arena "as soon as possible."
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(emphasis added)
Full
article
No ground can be broken while plaintiffs are in court
over eminent domain and a challenge to the state's environmental review and approval
of the project.
Posted: 1.03.08
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