Barclays Center: From Eminent Domain to Deron Williams
“But while the arena’s architecture aimed to lodge itself in the public consciousness, the Atlantic Yards development project, of which Barclays is the preening firstborn child, couldn’t have anticipated the discord it would ignite in the Brooklyn neighborhoods it promised to reactivate.Ms. Gilmartin is the executive vice president of commercial and residential development at Forest City Ratner Companies. Bruce Ratner, the Forest City chief executive, became the public face of Atlantic Yards as the $4.9 billion, 22-acre project withstood withering scrutiny from its neighbors-to-be, starting with its proposal in 2003.”
Gray, Bill. The Commercial Observer 18 December 2012.