nydailynews.com - 1/9/2009
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The $1 billion Nets arena designed for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards may be scaled back to save developer Bruce Ratner millions in construction costs, the Daily News has learned.
bizofbasketball.com - 1/15/2009
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bizofbasketball.com —
Bruce Ratner's plans for a Nets arena at
Atlantic Yards has become more and more challenging in...
the wake of the economic downturn. It wasn't that long ago that the Nets were perceived to be a team on the come. Vince Carter came to town and Jay-Z was sitting court-side giving them the kind ...
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Will the Nets Ever Move To Brooklyn?
nba.fanhouse.com - 1/13/2009
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Just days after learning that Nets owner Bruce
Ratner's Atlantic Yards development (which includes the Barclays Center,...
ostensibly the Nets' future arena) in Brooklyn might be dying comes word that the team is negotiating to play three exhibition games next October at Newark's Prudential Center, th
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Are the Nets Dumping Brooklyn for Newark?
dberri.wordpress.com - 1/12/2009
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dberri.wordpress.com —
The New Jersey Nets - led by Dr.
J. — won the final ABA championship in 1976....
The next season - without Dr. J. - the Nets won only 22 games in their inaugural NBA campaign. That first NBA season proved to be a harbinger of things to come. In ...
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Devin Harris Takes Many Shots and the Nets Improve Slightly
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... Adam Lisberg and Jotham Sederstrom of the Daily News: “Big changes are expected at the troubled 22-acre, $4.1 billion project, which was planned as an NBA basketball arena and 16 commercial and residential towers. ‘[Ratner] has to go out and get $1 billion in funding [for the arena],’ a source said. ‘That’s probably not going to happen. It can’t be built if that’s the price tag.’ Sources said Ratner is ‘looking to value engineers to do the arena less expensively and get that dollar amount down. … They are looking at the arena from inside out and ...
Atlantic Yards (Brooklyn Nets Arena) May Be "Dead" According to Opponents
FanHouse —
... But after sources told the New York Daily News that lead developer Bruce Ratner will hire "value engineers" to trim the budget back, opponents to the development are now saying the deal is " ...
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