Developers To Close Streets Near Atlantic Yards
By Special to the Sun | October 16, 2007
In a step forward for Brooklyn's $4 billion Atlantic Yards complex, the state and private developer Forest City Ratner will soon close streets within the footprint of the project. The planned complex will contain more than 6,000 units of housing and a Frank Gehry-designed basketball arena.
Forest City Ratner intends to announce the closure of a bridge on Carlton Avenue within the next few weeks, the developer told community leaders yesterday, as the bridge is being replaced in preparation for the complex.
The company intends to permanently close the streets running through the project's footprint in the first three months of 2008, creating two large superblocks at the edge of the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
