The company was Forest City Ratner, and was owned by the family of a young lawyer who had recently resigned from his post as City Consumer Affairs Commissioner. His name was Bruce Ratner. The project was MetroTech. At completion, it featured only...

Forest City Ratner’s original proposal included 15,000 construction jobs, 10,000 permanent jobs, 8 acres of open space and 2,250 units of affordable housing, all to be completed over a 10-year span. Due to the rising cost of the project, developer...

At the same time, elected officials and construction workers are nervously eyeing the empty lots that remain around the arena, where promised — but as yet unscheduled — condo towers are supposed to provide both housing and some of the 25,000 new jobs...

December 2003, developer Bruce Ratner stood in the old Brooklyn council chambers at Borough Hall and presented a dream that, he promised, would remake the borough's future. The dream was called Atlantic Yards, and as Ratner envisioned it—and celebrity...

Architects The Barclays Center is almost complete, but the proposed buildings behind it are not even underway — and it’s unclear when they will be. Even the lawyers don’t know when Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project will be completed — if it will be...

All night jackhammering for utility work to prepare for the new Nets arena - expected to open in September- has residents on Dean St. near 5th Ave. ready to crack, they said. And on the other side of the project site, the state last week authorized...