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Over at Atlantic Yards Report, Norman Oder maintains that we should take the Nets’ pledge to move to Brooklyn in 2010 with a grain of salt:

Arena construction takes 24 months and can’t begin until the pending lawsuits are cleared…Even if the legal challenges end soon, it still would take a scheduled three years to reconstruct bridges on Carlton Avenue and Sixth Avenue, and it would be a very unwise move to open the arena with a major traffic bottleneck next to it. The Carlton Avenue bridge won’t close until January 16. Three years from then would be mid-January, 2011.

Given that the Nets originally intended to be playing in Brooklyn by 2006, Oder’s skepticism about the current target date doesn’t seem far-fetched.
On the Nets Arena, the Real Story is 2011, Not 2010 [AY Report]
Nets Say Brooklyn Move May Be Delayed Further [NY Times]
Rendering from barclayscenter.com.


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  1. Re Jan 4 12:22 :

    (Not in my back yard. As in there should be a place for 20,000 people to gather for sports and other things in a city, but not at the junction of almost every major subway line in Brooklyn plus the LIRR if I live near there and need a place to park my SUV.)

    No. As in if 20,000 people want a place to gather for sports and other things in a city, why should it be subsidized by the small to medium scale residential community around it? Why provide parking for 4,000 cars at the most congested intersection in Brooklyn, if the public trasnportation here is so good? Why close streets to give the land away to a single developer, instead of providing infrastructure for multiple developers over time as the market develops? As in haven’t we learned anything from the failed “urban planning” fiascos of previous generations?