An article in BK MAG, owned by arena operator Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, can't tell readers that the bar was ejected to build the Barclays Center. Much more to remember.
The question of blight in that area , at the time, was really inseparable from the question of when will the area be rezoned from industrial to allow the organic residential growth pressing from all sides.
The question of blight in that area , at the time, was really inseparable from the question of when will the area be rezoned from industrial to allow the organic residential growth pressing from all sides.
Or would it instead be an override of zoning by NY State to enable a specific project to take advantage of that growth.
Indeed. The “blight” angle always appeared to be a run around to take the advantages of the growth away from others.