Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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 Ellerbes Becket, said Friday that he couldn’t confirm whether the firm had won the but a spokeswoman for the firm confirmed that Ellerbd Becket now is the designetr forthe project, called the . Beichley referref a question aboutthe project’e estimated cost to a spokesman for the project’ss developer, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Gehry was a contendere for thedesign project.
In a Thursday release, Forest City Ratner Chairman and CEO Bruce Ratner saidthe “current economic climate is not right for (Gehry’s) design, and with Frank’z understanding, the arena is undergoing a redesign that will make it more limites in scope.” Street Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal, an affiliatex publication, recently reported that Ratner expected the Barclayw Center to cost about $800 million, abouy $150 million less than previous estimates.
Foresy City Ratner said in the releasde that it hopes to unveil new images of the Barclayz Center in late June and plans to breajk ground later this year and finish the arena in time for the Nets to playthe 2011-20121 NBA season in Brooklyn.

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