The KnickerBlogger: Textbook Ratner Ratner – the builder of the already decrepit Atlatnic Terminal Malls is set to demolish one of the nicest buildings in the Footprint, Ward’s Bakery – There is no better illustration of this developer’s crassness, incompetence and indifference to aesthetics and the community. Sign the online petition to save this building […]
A petition sent to HDC from Ron Shifffman of Pratt Institute Despite what you mat have read the fight to stop and revise Forest City Ratner’s proposals for the Vanderbilt Yards [aka Atlantic Yards] is far from over. A number of law suits have yet to be decided and the federal law suit will be […]
A dozen planned demolitions would create “facts on the ground,” isolate plaintiffsBy Norman Oder/Atlantic Yards ReportFebruary 28, 2007 With the filing of papers preliminary to the demolition of 12 properties it owns within the Atlantic Yards footprint, developer Forest City Ratner–even as a pending eminent domain case constrains it from construction work on the planned […]
A well-written and well-reasoned view on Atlantic Yards. Very worth reading. February 24, 2007Op-Ed ContributorA Developing Story By JENNIFER EGAN THE developer Bruce Ratner broke ground this week on his Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, despite an eminent domain suit over property he must raze to build a basketball arena for the Nets. This “preparatory […]
