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Mikhail D. Prokhorov wants to give Bruce Ratner $200 million so he can take the controlling interest of the New...

Victor Mooney works in a garage that was donated by Mr. Bruce Ratner. 2009-10-08 07:47:21 - Brooklyn native, Victor Mooney , hopes his original sponsor for The Goree Challenge, Mr.

The Nets are moving to a new arena in Brooklyn, and Bruce Ratner believes the remaining obstacles won't be a problem.

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New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner says the sale of the NBA team to Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov is the final piece to building an $800 million arena and moving the Nets to Brooklyn.

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Folks in Brooklyn are still trying to stop the construction of a new arena for the New Jersey Nets to move into,...

By By CHARLES V. BAGLI Mikhail Prokhorov, one of the richest men in Russia and an avid sports fan, is said to be the leading contender to buy a majority stake in the team and in the planned arena in Brooklyn.

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By By CHARLES V. BAGLI Bruce C. Ratner faces multiple deadlines for his Brooklyn project, which includes an $800 million arena for the New Jersey Nets.

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Developer Bruce Ratner will pay the Metropolitan Transportation Authority $20 million up front and another $80 million in installments for the right to use land it owns to build a basketball arena in Brooklyn.

Nets' arena vision: 'Brooklyn brand' Gehry had never designed a big league arena before Nets owner Bruce Ratner called, whereas Ellerbe brings experience in building multiple NBA arenas that will help get the job done in time for a planned 2011 opening. “They know where the land mines are ...

 NY Right now, they share a significant amount of the revenues at the Izod Center with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority." There remains some skepticism in the grandiose plans by Nets owner Bruce Ratner, the mega-developer who in 2003 ...

The Nets and the developer Bruce C. Ratner still have a number of hurdles to overcome before they can break ground. They plan to go to both the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns a part of the site, and the Empire State Development ... No Brooklyn, no LeBron for Nets New York Post

Last week, the Atlantic Yards developer Bruce C. Ratner revealed that Mr. Gehry had been replaced by the firm Ellerbe Becket as the architect for the project's linchpin: a basketball arena for the Nets at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush ...

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 OH Ouroussoff writes that the arena design for the Nets team would make it “fit more comfortably in a cornfield than at one of the busiest intersections of a vibrant metropolis.” Forest City's Bruce Ratner and company dumped Frank Gehry's exotic design ...

New York Construction Magazine  MO Gehry's Departure From Atlantic Yards Project SportsBusiness Daily (subscription) Gehry or Not, Here He Comes! Ratner To Get Shovels Moving Again ... New York Observer GlobeSt. com - New York Times

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The firm Ellerbe Becket's design for a Nets arena in Brooklyn, viewed from Atlantic Avenue. A version by Frank Gehry has been abandoned. By NICOLAI OUROUSOFF The recent news that the developer Forest City Ratner had scrapped Frank Gehry's design for a ...

 NY By Eliot Brown Fresh off dumping Frank Gehry from his planned Brooklyn Nets arena, Bruce Ratner appears to be putting his money where his mouth is, as the real estate developer plans to restart stalled construction work again on his $4 billion Atlantic ...

 Canada Almost six years ago, Ratner bought the New Jersey Nets and pledged to transplant the NBA team to Brooklyn. The last professional team to call the place home, the Brooklyn Dodgers, had decamped to Los Angeles in 1957, delivering a grievous blow to the ...

By Nadine M. Post Architect Ellerbe Becket, of Kansas City, has been retained by New Jersey Nets owner and Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner, of Forest City Ratner Cos. (FCRC) to come up with a new design for the long-delayed and controversial ...

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 United States The owner of the New Jersey Nets has replaced the architect of a pricey planned arena in Brooklyn. Developer Bruce Ratner said Thursday that Gehry's design has been scrapped for a cheaper design of the arena, named the Barclays Center. ...

Nets owner Bruce Ratner told the New York media May 15 that he expects construction to start this fall after what team officials call the final legal action against the Atlantic Yards development was dismissed in court. Ratner still needs to sell bonds ...

 United States Bruce Ratner and the people of Brooklyn, if you want an NHL team to join the Nets, the Islanders are mostly unrestricted free agents in just over four months. If you have a plan and land in Suffolk, County Executive Steve Levy, here'sa chance to ...

According to a New York Times report, the 20000-seat arena that the Nets would use is a part of a 22-acre development project, which includes apartments and an office tower, called Atlantic Yards. The project is headed by developer Bruce Ratner, ...

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 NY Bruce Ratner made his voice heard last night and since he's the one who signs off on everything, it seems Nets coach Lawrence Frank is safe. But, Nets president Rod Thorn and other members of management will meet after the season to decide whether to ...

New York Stories And then there is Nets owner Bruce Ratner, still angling to build a $950 million arena as part of a $3.5 billion project in Brooklyn, and Islanders owner Charles Wang, who wants to pull off a similar play on a smaller scale with his NHL team on Long ...

The Nets have been trying for the past five years to build Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Team owner Bruce Ratner has said publicly that the project will break ground this year and open for the 2011-12 season. Their lease at Izod Center expires at the ...

By William Henry Jones The New York Daily news reported that the NJ Devils were interested in buying the team and moving them to Newark only to have Bruce Ratner in a guest opinion piece on Sunday deny the story and reassert that the arena would open as ...