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It's hilarious how I heard some people say (while walking in the area) that a "MALL WAS BEING BUILT". Come on don't some people have any prior education. These people make up the majority of the demographic (and people get MAD at me for saying that these SAME people don't know a new WTC is being built).
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Park Slope Patch took a tour of the Barclays Center construction site on Friday, getting a first-hand look at what will become the home of the Brooklyn Nets. The AOL-owned local blog notes that the steel roof is now 80 percent complete and the glass panels that coat the buildings exterior will all be in place by March.
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Now all we need is a small revitalization to the surrounding area, so this area can be freshened. One thing I like is how this arena is a few blocks away from Prospect Park.
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2012, 5:51 PM
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Is this the start of a Barclays Center gold rush?



By Eli Rosenberg
Feb 9, 2012

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The owners of a 96-year-old sporting goods store directly across the street from the nearly finished home of the Brooklyn Nets are cashing out — putting their building up for sale in what speculators say is the beginning of a real estate gold rush sparked by the opening of the new arena. Triangle Sports owner Henry Rosa said he and his partner, William Shapiro — whose grandparents opened the shop as an Army surplus outfit in 1916 — made to decision to sell after the offers started trickling in over the summer from businesses eager to get in on the action near the soon-to-be-completed Barclays Center.

“Because of the arena, the value has gone up quite a bit,” said Rosa, who hinted that the building could garner millions of dollars. “We’ve gotten solicited by a lot of people making offers and I thought I could be here another 100 years and never make what I’d get for it now.”
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Old Posted Feb 10, 2012, 9:37 PM
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Jay-Z Determined to Make the Nets Stylish
As the Team Moves to Brooklyn, the Rap Mogul and Part-Owner Is the Czar of Aesthetics; Don't Skimp on the Forks.






Feb 9, 2012
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Jay-Z was sitting on the edge of his impossibly large oak desk when he stressed the importance of flatware. Forks need to be heavy, he told his small audience, which included Chris Sharples, the architect in charge of designing a block of luxury suites at Barclays Center that would bear the rap impresario's imprint. Forks, Jay-Z said, need to have substance. A plastic fork? Please. Even stainless steel was out of the question.

The meeting, which was held last spring at Jay-Z's offices in Manhattan, was Sharples's introduction to him, and he said it was revealing: The team's most glamorous part-owner wanted to be involved. "He's a very confident individual," said Sharples, a principal at SHoP Architects.

His influence, particularly when it comes to style and branding, far outweighs his financial stake in the franchise. "I don't tell Jay-Z to do anything," said Brett Yormark, the CEO of Barclays Center and the Nets. "I mean that. He tells me what to do. Listen, when it comes to our engagement, let's just say he's the CEO."

The Nets are celebrating the role that he's played in everything from revamping the logo ("He's refreshed it," Yormark said) to designing new uniforms ("His fingerprints are all over it") to coming up with a new color scheme ("A bold redirection"), all of which the team plans to unveil this spring.

The suites themselves, which are still under construction, will be unabashedly bold—and that includes the price tag: $550,000 per year, with a minimum three-year term. That works out to $45,833 per month, instantly making them some of the most expensive rental properties in the city. That's just slightly less than the $50,000-per-month asking rent on the townhouse in TriBeCa where Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the beleaguered former director of the International Monetary Fund, recently resided. The tenants of each suite will receive eight tickets in the first 10 rows to all Barclays Center events, including Nets games, other sporting events, concerts and family shows. Yormark said he hopes to book 220 events per year. So here's some rough math: If each event averages five hours, that means tenants will be paying $500 per hour—or about $8.33 per minute—for access to The Vault. "It enables us to appeal to a different demographic," Yormark said.





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Brooklyn Arena Pulls More Retail .



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A real-estate investment company has closed on the purchase of a 105-year-old industrial building near the site of the new Barclays Center sports arena in Brooklyn. Waterbridge Capital is considering turning the 40,000-square-foot facility at 700 Atlantic Ave. into a retail center, a person familiar with the matter said. Waterbridge bought the property for about $7 million, this person said.

Waterbridge Capital's purchase is the latest example of real-estate firms attempting to capitalize on properties near the new arena in a rapidly transforming section of Brooklyn. On Monday, the developers behind Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard announced that they plan to build a 52-story apartment tower two blocks away from the arena's construction site.

"Up until a year ago, people didn't know if they could finish" the arena, said Ofer Cohen, president of real-estate service firm TerraCRG, who is unaffiliated with 700 Atlantic Ave. "It's going to unfold in the next couple of years...and people want to take advantage of it."

The space at 700 Atlantic Ave. was last used by a manufacturer that made trade-show exhibits. The site is located within the second phase of Forest City Ratner Cos.' master plan for its larger Atlantic Yards development, which will include residential towers. Forest City eventually plans to build three apartment buildings on the block that includes 700 Atlantic Ave.
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For Sharon Davidson, whose job includes encouraging businesses to set up shop in downtown Brooklyn, there is no difficulty in pinpointing the biggest change in her work.

"Five years ago, it was difficult to get anyone to rent in this district," said Ms. Davidson, executive director of the North Flatbush Business Improvement District. "Now with the arena, the rents have doubled and I get calls from people who want to move to this area."

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Barclays Center could be a good fit for Isles

February 22, 2012
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Barclays Center was built primarily by and for the Nets, but as the arena takes its final shape, another potential use has become clearer than ever.

Evident around the perimeter of the arena floor in the heart of Brooklyn is the outline of a hockey rink, the one that on Oct. 2 will host the first sports event in the building -- an Islanders preseason game against the Devils.

That game inevitably has prompted speculation the site could be a landing place for the Islanders after their lease at Nassau Coliseum expires in 2015. It is too soon to assess the likelihood of such a move; it is not too soon to assess the arena's ability to accommodate it.

"That, physically, is easy to accomplish,'' said Bob Sanna, an executive vice president of Forest City Ratner who is in charge of construction. He said the building always was designed with a regulation rink in mind and has plenty of locker room space to house a home team.

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Barclays Center plans global social media push

By Ali Elkin
March 15, 2012

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When Jay-Z throws his housewarming concert at the Barclays Center in September, fans around the world will get live updates about “99 Problems” in 53 languages.

It's part of the arena's owners' plan to build a tricked-out corner of the Internet where the Brooklyn venue can connect with music and sports fans. They announced Thursday plans to partner with Ortsbo, a Toronto-based technology company that specializes in instantly translating text, often for Tweets, chats and live blogs. Ortsbo's service will translate content on the Barclays Center website.

“We've now partnered with Barclays to create a global broadcasting center,” said Ortsbo CEO David Lucatch.

Ortsbo will lead Barclays Center's global social media push by instantly translating spoken or written text on the arena's website into more than 50 tongues. That way, users can view an international chat thread in their native languages.


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Mar 15, 2012

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The first intermission of MSG's broadcast of the New York Islanders vs. Philadelphia Flyers game carried an interesting surprise: A lengthy interview between Islanders play-by-play announcer Howie Rose and Bruce Ratner, the original developer of the Barclay's Center*, the Brooklyn arena many hope the Islanders will one day call home.

The Islanders will play a preseason game there against the New Jersey Devils Oct. 2 (tickets, it was mentioned, go on sale March 29), so there is your ostensible reason for the interview. But the interview on the home team's broadcast was not treated as a sales pitch for the preseason game -- it was an open "So, could the Islanders move to Brooklyn?" forum with only cursory verbiage paid to finding a solution in Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead that has been such a gracious home.

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I think it looks awesome. Brown and blue is the new Brooklyn.
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I love the cladding. Can't wait to see it in its completed state.
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New Brooklyn arena puts Islander tix on sale
The first National Hockey League game to be played at the Barclays Center, featuring the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils, will go on sale on Thursday.





By Adrianne Pasquarelli
March 23, 2012

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After years of waiting, the first sporting event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center is nearly upon New Yorkers. Tickets for the Oct. 2 National Hockey League game, which will pit the New York Islanders against the New Jersey Devils, will go on sale Thursday.

It's an important milestone for the new arena, which has been in the making since 2003, when Bruce Ratner of Brooklyn-based developer Forest City Ratner Cos. first announced he would be purchasing the New Jersey Nets, with the intention of moving the team to the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Nearly a decade and $800 million later, the 675,000-square-foot Barclays Center is about open to the public. The NHL game, the first of its kind taking place in Brooklyn, will occur four days after a series of Jay-Z concerts, which begin Sept. 28. The stadium, which seats up to 19,000 for concerts, will offer 14,500 seats for hockey.

“We're extremely excited to play the first NHL game in the new, state-of-the-art Barclays Center,” said Garth Snow, general manager of the Islanders, in a statement, noting that a large part of the team's fan base is already in Brooklyn.

The arena is prepared for the influx of customers, with 1,000 full-time and part-time staffers at events. Each employee will be trained by the Disney Institute, known for its customer service orientation. A spokesman for the Barclays Center said that several technological innovations will be revealed in coming days. Earlier this month, executives announced plans to partner with Tornoto-based Ortsbo, which will put tweets and blog posts onto the Barclays Center website.
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The interior is opposite of what we're used to in Brooklyn, BUT then again this isn't any ordinary facility.
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Those recent set of update photos are amazing. It will be quite iconic
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