Monday, January 23, 2012

Ellerbe Becket wins design contract for New Jersey Nets arena - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Doug Beichley, a principal with Kansas City-based Ellerbe Becket, said Fridauy that he couldn’t confirm whether the firm had won the but a spokeswoman for the firm confirmed that Ellerbe Becket now is the designer for the calledthe . Beichley referred a question abouftthe project’s estimated cost to a spokesman for the project’as developer, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Gehry was a contender for the design project.
In a Thursday release, Forest City Ratne Chairman and CEO Brucs Ratner saidthe “current economic climat is not right for design, and with Frank’s understanding, the arena is undergoingv a redesign that will make it more limitex in scope.” Street & Smith’s SportsBusinesse Journal, an affiliated publication, recently reported that Ratnert expected the Barclays Center to cost abouyt $800 million, about $150 million less than previous estimates.
Forest City Ratnetr said in the release that it hopexs to unveil new images of the Barclays Centetr in late June and plans to brea k ground later this year and finish the arena in time for the Nets to playthe 2011-2012w NBA season in Brooklyn.

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