No, "politicians and activists" didn't doom Atlantic Yards. Nor did the Barclays Center catalyze project benefits. BSE Global keeps pushing, in Brooklyn & beyond. Atlantic Yards lessons for the BMT.
Norman, thanks for bringing your hard-won knowledge and ideas to my part of the world (the BMT). Both the process and the specifics are wrong for the landscape and the people of Red Hook and Columbia Street Waterfront.
Thanks, Nancy. You'd think lessons have been learned, and they maybe, partly have been, but any process rushing this fast prompts much skepticism. I wish I had more bandwidth to cover it more thoroughly.
Norman, thanks for bringing your hard-won knowledge and ideas to my part of the world (the BMT). Both the process and the specifics are wrong for the landscape and the people of Red Hook and Columbia Street Waterfront.
Thanks, Nancy. You'd think lessons have been learned, and they maybe, partly have been, but any process rushing this fast prompts much skepticism. I wish I had more bandwidth to cover it more thoroughly.