Lawsuits Could Potentially Kill Atlantic Yards Development

Here we were, after all the hubbub about kicking Frank Gehry off the Atlantic Yards project and Ellerbe Beckett stepping in, that everything was finished and going to move forward on the New Jersey Nets’ new arena from here on out. But apparently there’s still one big hurdle to jump. Bloomberg‘s James Russell reports that the developer, Forest City Ratner, is facing two lawsuits which it must win before construction can begin. One is from a Brooklyn-based activist group (who