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New Atlantic Yards Suit To Be Filed 11/19/09	Nov 28 2009
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Opening Delays at Brooklyn Bridge Park	Nov 24 2009
Bloomberg Shows He's Committed to Coney	Nov 15 2009
Gateway Center Up and Running	Oct 16 2009

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Gowanus Development (17 recent stories)

With Park Slope having been developed to capacity, nearby Gowanus is seeing a significant increase in commercial and residential development. Most prominently, Shaya Boymelgreen plans to build Gowanus Village, a 375,000 unit, mixed-use development with 350 apartments and condominiums stretching from Carroll Street to Third Street, and from the Gowanus Canal to Third Avenue. Read More ...

On October 17, 2006, Tishman Speyer Properties and partner BlackRock Investment Bank signed the largest American real estate deal to date, agreeing to pay $5.4 billion for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, a immense complex of 110 apartment buildings with a total of 11,232 units on 40 acres of land along the East River. With the help of tax breaks and the government’s use of eminent domain, the Metropolitan Life, Inc. (MetLife) built the complex for returning veterans in 1947. Read More ...

Redevelopment efforts for the 16-acre World Trade Center (WTC) site began almost immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Though the site was being leased to developer Larry Silverstein at the time of the attacks, the property was owned entirely by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). Read More ...

In the summer of 2002, Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), one of the largest publicly-traded real estate companies in the US, developed a plan to build on a 22-acre site at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn. The site is directly across the street from FCRC’s other large Brooklyn developments: Atlantic Center and Metrotech. More than 8 acres at the center of the site are the Vanderbilt Rail Yards, a property owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Read More ...

As St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers - the umbrella organization for several hospitals and healthcare facilities - emerged from bankruptcy in February 2007, it announced plans to build a new hospital to replace its flagship facility in Greenwich Village. St. Vincent’s says it needs the new facility because the layout of its current facility is outdated and impractical. St. Read More ...