Developer Bruce Ratner is having a great deal of trouble lining up financing for his proposed Barclay's arena. Given those difficulties, here is a suggestion to move the Nets into a refurbished Nassau Coliseum on as part of the Lighthouse...
This was an excellent preview of some of the issues covered this past Wednesday in State hearings presided over by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. It was not covered in this week's NoLandGrab coverage, so it is included now.
Questionable promises of...
Now that the NJ Nets have officially started its rebuilding phase, how the heck does Ratner convince NJ fans to care about a lame duck team that he plans to move to Brooklyn one of these days?
But just because the team is planning that far...
"We’re not against anybody building anything," Newell said at a press conference held across the street from the Beekman Tower (he had to shout to make himself heard over the noise of the construction, my DN colleague Erin Einhorn...
Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn Day was billed as a celebration, but Thursday's pep rally to whip up support for the Nets owner's controversial Atlantic Yards project seemed more like a goal-line stand than a party.
New York Daily News sports columnist...
This Thursday, June 12, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to hear arguments in an eminent domain case that reflects every property owner's worst nightmares. Five years ago residents in the Prospect Heights section of...
Background
Bruce Ratner (born January 23, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio) is president and CEO of Forest City Ratner, the New York division of Forest City Enterprises, which is based in Cleveland. Ratner was New York City's most active real estate developer during the 1990s. Ratner graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1967 and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1970.
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