August 7, 2006
New York Times: Atlantic Yards ‘Deserves To Go Forward’
In case you missed it, yesterday the New York Times Editorial Board weighed in on the Atlantic Yards development saying the project “deserves to go forward” and stated:
“After watching the project evolve for the past few years, we feel — with a few caveats — that it deserves to go forward. The opportunities it presents, and the nearly 7,000 apartment units it will provide a housing-starved city, outweigh the problems it would entail.”
“More than 2,200 of the apartment units would have rents targeted to low-, moderate- and middle-income families. The Nets basketball team would bring major league sports back to Brooklyn. The buildings designed by Frank Gehry would add a sense of excitement to the entire area. And, when finished in 2016, the project will add substantially to city and state tax revenues.”
“The developers have addressed some of the community’s early objections, particularly worries about traffic.”
“Community outreach has been far better in the Atlantic Yards project than it was, say, in the now-defunct plans to build a Jets stadium in Midtown Manhattan.”
“The planners are correct in seeing an opportunity to build something grander and doing it at the one place in the borough that can handle it.”
To read the entire editorial please visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/opinion/nyregionopinions/atlyards.1.html?_r=2&ref=nyregionopinions&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
In addition, recently Atlantic Yards has been in the news. The following are links to some of the stories:
- NY Times - Builder Working to Change Field’s White-Male Image
- NY Times - Cities Grow Up, and Some See Sprawl
- NY Daily News - Losing Brooklyn's uncivil war
Also be sure to visit our newsroom to read recent articles about Atlantic Yards.
