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Does 2037 Work for You?
Forest City Ratner
just can't seem to keep its many little helpers reading from the same
page. First Frank Gehry crankily
announces that the whole project is dead, and now ESDC
CEO Marisa Lago suggests that groundbreaking will occur in 2010. As Norman
Oder demonstrates, that could easily push the first season for the Nets in
Brooklyn out into 2013--a major revision from the developer's current official
promise of 2011.
So what? Most Brooklynites who are not on on
Ratner's payroll aren't exactly breathlessly awaiting the Nets'
arrival. The people most disheartened by this news should be FCR's
investors, who are looking at an extra two years of money down the
drain as the hapless Nets thrash around somewhere in New Jersey playing to
half-empty arenas.
But the biggest implications are for the time
frame of the rest of the project. All of the promised community
benefits--affordable housing, jobs, greenspace, and so on--aren't likely
to arrive as briskly as the tardy arena, and will probably await further
installments of the project.
And when is that likely to happen in
the Ratner world of receding timelines? While not strictly comparable--in
the sense that the current AY plan is primarily residential--new research on the
future of the World Trade Center buildings gives a sense of what kind
of truly remarkable dates are possible in the brave new world of post-meltdown
New York real estate. The forecast: One World Trade Center, which the Port
Authority is building, will not be fully occupied until 2018. Tower 2 will
not be completely rented until 2025 andTower 3 will not be fully leased until
2037.
The timeline of Atlantic Yards needs a
similarly clear-eyed reassessment. The use of eminent domain and
public subsidies are based on promised benefits on a certain timeline--and
it would be useful to at least know approximately which decade we're
talking about.
Posted: 4.17.09
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