An Arena Grows in Brooklyn

New Jersey Nets officials celebrated a big day Tuesday in the eight-year history of their effort to move to Brooklyn as the project began “going vertical,” with steel beams, girders and trusses being erected.
But does this tell us much about whether the Nets’ ambitious goal of opening the Barclays Center in the fall of 2012 - or even being ready in mid-2012 - is attainable?

Continue reading… Meadowlands Matters

An Arena Grows in Brooklyn

New Jersey Nets officials celebrated a big day Tuesday in the eight-year history of their effort to move to Brooklyn as the project began “going vertical,” with steel beams, girders and trusses being erected.

But does this tell us much about whether the Nets’ ambitious goal of opening the Barclays Center in the fall of 2012 - or even being ready in mid-2012 - is attainable?

Continue reading… Meadowlands Matters