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| #1 Posted on 9.4.04 1213.21 Reposted on: 9.4.11 1222.31 | A half billion dollars for a relatively ugly-looking arena. Hm.
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Developer Bruce Ratner plans to spend more than $500 million on a new arena for the Brooklyn Nets, making it the most expensive home court in NBA history, sources said. "It will cost about $500 million and change," a source familiar with the project told the Daily News.
That would be more than twice the average cost of the eight NBA arenas built since 1999, and would easily surpass the $375 million Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Ratner lieutenant Bruce Bender neither confirmed nor denied the half-billion-dollar figure. But he noted the arena is being designed by celebrated architect Frank Gehry, and "it's going to be done right." He said Gehry also has been told to explore expanding the arena's capacity, to create more lower-priced seats. The arena, to be built at Atlantic and Flatbush Aves., originally was designed to seat 19,000.
Ratner also has hired a team of consultants to look into selling lucrative naming rights for the arena, Bender said.
The project's $2.5 billion price tag reflects "the complexity of the site," Bender said, hinting at the controversial task ahead of buying the 21-acre swath of land for the proposed complex.
The development also includes 4,500 units of housing, at $1.25 billion, and 2.4 million square feet of office and retail space at $750 million.
Ratner faces stiff opposition from locals, including more than 160 homeowners who would have to be moved to make way for the development. They have hired ex-New York Civil Liberties Union head Norman Siegel to fight efforts by the state to condemn their property.
Although Ratner has said the project will be financed primarily with private funds, Bender noted the city will have to ante up an estimated $150 million for improving roads, sewers and utilities.
The developer's company, Forest City Ratner, also expects a cut of the city and state tax revenues generated by the team's move from New Jersey, the source said.
"That allows [Ratner] to finance about $400 million to $500 million," the source said.
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| #2 Posted on 9.4.04 1216.33 Reposted on: 9.4.11 1222.32 | Originally posted by Kawshen A half billion dollars for a relatively ugly-looking arena. Hm.
How do you know it's gonna be ugly? | Kawshen
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| #3 Posted on 9.4.04 1249.41 Reposted on: 9.4.11 1251.51 | http://www.bball.net/
See for yourself. | DrDirt
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| #4 Posted on 9.4.04 1439.41 Reposted on: 9.4.11 1441.16 | As long as it's not public money, it's great. | The Amazing Salami
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| #5 Posted on 9.4.04 1442.50 Reposted on: 9.4.11 1443.03 |
I kinda like it. | DJ FrostyFreeze
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| #6 Posted on 9.4.04 1549.38 Reposted on: 9.4.11 1550.23 | Ditto. I mean, it's no STAPLES CENTER (as IF), but it's ok looking to me. | BOSsportsfan34
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| #7 Posted on 10.4.04 1408.27 Reposted on: 10.4.11 1410.50 | Looks like it will be a pretty deent looking arena. It's gotta be better looking than The Meadowlands right? | rockdotcom_2.0
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| #8 Posted on 11.4.04 2326.17 Reposted on: 11.4.11 2328.26 | Originally posted by The Amazing Salami
I kinda like it.
I like it too, it probably looks better in a colored artists rendering. I bet Staple and Conseco fieldhouse probably look like crap using wood blocks | NickBockwinkelFan
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| #9 Posted on 15.4.04 1506.10 Reposted on: 15.4.11 1506.45 | I live 5 blocks from the proposed site and the neighborhood has changed alot in the last 10 years. It has been undergoing gentrifacation to the south in Park Slope since about 1990. The entire 5th Avenue stretch running down from Flatbush has also come on in the last few years. But the entire downtown Brooklyn area has remained relatively funky. Brooklyn really needs something new in the downtown area to help revitalize it. The Marriott and the brand new subway/LIRR hub are great starts, but half-assed efforts like Metro Tech are feeble at best. If he can make this happen with private money it would be great, but if not, let Ratner take a tour of the public schools in the area and then let him say the Nets are more deserving. | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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