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The Barclays Center is a sports
arena currently under construction in Brooklyn, New York City. The arena is being built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue. It is part of a proposed $4.9 billion sports arena, business and residential complex. The arena is intended to serve as a new home for the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets, currently based at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey and currently scheduled establishments 40/40, JRG Fashion Cafe,The Ink Well Jazz Comedy Cafe,
Gucci, Ed Hardy and more to be announced. The arena was scheduled to open in 2011 along
with the rest of the complex; however, controversies involving local residents and the use of eminent domain as well as a lack of funding have delayed the project. The project is being developed by developer
Forest City Ratner, who acquired the Nets in 2004, with the purpose of moving them from New Jersey to this site near the
Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street New York City Subway station and the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, one of the most transit-accessible locations in the city. The move would mark the return
of major league sports to Brooklyn, which has been absent since the departure of the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 (their proposal for the world's first domed stadium at the Atlantic Yards to replace the unprofitable Ebbets Field had been turned down by the city in the past). On March 1, 2010,
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Abraham Gerges struck down a challenge by property owners regarding the state's use of eminent
domain, which allowed the private property to be condemned. The groundbreaking for the project occurred on March 11, 2010. |
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