Developer Said to Cut Size of Brooklyn Project

Subject: this could be very happy

if say, they cut all the tall buildings. (whcih is most of the project)

i wouldn't like it, but i could deal if it was just the stadium and nothing else. jay-z would get his dream, nyc would finally get a ghery building, and we'd all still have light in our yards.

Subject: AY likely still larger than the original under new scaleback

AY likely still larger than the original under new scaleback (but does the Times notice?

http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2006/09/ay-likely-still-larger-than-original.html

A New York Times article today, headlined Developer Said to Cut Size of Brooklyn Project, describes a proposed 6 to 8 percent cutback in Atlantic Yards, stating:
Officials say that Forest City has not settled on the final numbers for the project, but that it plans to reduce the size by 500,000 to 700,000 square feet by eliminating hundreds of market-rate apartments. That would enable the developer to cut the height of some of the towers, including a 350-foot building on what is known as Site 5, on the west side of Flatbush Avenue, and possibly at Miss Brooklyn.

This is the lead story for the entire newspaper. They should have done better. Unmentioned is the sequence of proposals, which show that the project could still be bigger than originally announced:
December 2003: 8 million square feet
September 2005: 9.132 million square feet
March 2006: 8.659 million square feet

A reduction of 500,000 square feet would make the project 8.159 million square feet, while a cut of 700,000 square feet would mean 7.959 million square feet.

And even a reduction in bulk would leave Miss Brooklyn and the building at Site 5 quite large. Right now, the former would be about three times the bulk of the Williamsburgh bank, in square footage, and the latter would be nearly twice the size of the bank. In fact, a cut of 700,000 square feet from Miss Brooklyn alone would still leave it bulkier than the bank.