Agreements for the Atlantic Yards arena project in Brooklyn and the construction of the new Yankee Stadium ran into similar complaints.

WSJ: Pact's Benefits in Limbo

Many giant development plans have been wounded or stalled by the downturn, such as the Atlantic Yards basketball arena and housing development in Brooklyn.

WSJ: Plan Upends Willets Vision

After almost 10 years of contentious wrangling between the community and developer Forest City Ratner, the first completed building in the Atlantic Yards megadevelopment opened in September.

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Ten minutes later, lunch over, Gehry is getting visual nourishment, stooping over the model of the basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets proposed for the Atlantic Yards.

FORBES: The Master Builder

Longtime journalist and Atlantic Yards watchdog Norman Oder, author of the Atlantic Yards Report blog, has used Freedom of Information Act requests and translators to comb through piles of documents.

FORBES: Job Creation Program Stretches Claims About Low-Income Neighborhoods

The sale allowed him to buy the New Jersey Nets in 2009, and he has a 45% stake in the team's real estate project to build a new arena in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards in 2012.

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Forest City Ratner, currently engaged in a vast project for the Atlantic Yards on the Brooklyn waterfront, which includes a basketball stadium for the Nets designed by Frank Gehry, has made token changes in cooperation with community representatives, although questions remain about densities and scale.

WSJ: New York Stadium Deals: Good and Bad

Atlantic Yards' new plans show residential buildings that seem to be doing their best to hold their tongues, make nothing more than the blandest statement possible, and pray dearly not to offend the sensibility that has made Brooklyn so attractive to new residents in the past few decades.

WSJ: Barclays Center's Exercise in Bland

Last season: 441 yards (26th) and an Atlantic Coast Conference championship, Clemson's first since 1991.

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