By Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: Community Board 6 has prepared a list of issues members hope will be considered
in the anticipated environmental review of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic
Yards plan, which proposes to build a basketball arena and 17 high-rise
residential, office and retail buildings on a 23-acre site emanating from
the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues and stretching into
Prospect Heights.
Comment.
By Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: A spokesman for the city’s Independent Budget Office told The Brooklyn
Papers this week that the agency finally has a starting point to analyze
the public benefit of developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed basketball
arena, housing and office development in Propsect Heights.
Comment.
By Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: A developer is moving forward with plans to build a hotel smack-dab in
the middle of Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards site.
Comment.
By Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: To the surprise of many Prospect Heights residents, enormous drills have
begun test borings of the earth below several sites within the 24-acre
swath upon which developer Bruce Ratner plans to build his Atlantic Yards
arena and high-rise development.
Comment.
By Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn’s sole appointee to the City Planning Commission, one of
only two city agencies with an official role in the proposed Atlantic
Yards arena, housing and office complex will have no voice, the city said
this week.
Comment.