Monday, May 28, 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 Friday that he couldn’t confirm whether the firm had won the but a spokeswoman for the firm confirmed that Ellerbes Becket now is the designer for the calledthe . Beichley referred a question aboutthe project’s estimates cost to a spokesman for the project’s of Brooklyn, N.Y., who couldn’t immediately be reached for Gehry was a contender for the design In a Thursday Forest City Ratner Chairman and CEO Bruce Ratner said the “currengt economic climate is not right for (Gehry’s) and with Frank’s understanding, the aren a is undergoing a redesign that will make it more limitex in scope.
” Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness an affiliated publication, recently reported that Ratner expected the Barclays Center to cost about $800 million, about $150 millionh less than previous estimates. Forest City Ratned said in the release that it hopes to unveiol new images of the Barclays Center in late June and plane to break ground later this year and finishg the arena in time for the Nets to playthe 2011-2012 NBA season in Brooklyn.

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