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The western entrance of Barclays Center, taken from the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue.
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| Location | 620 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York11217, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°40′57.54″N 73°58′28.88″W |
| Broke ground | March 11, 2010[1] |
| Opened | September 21, 2012 |
| Owner | Forest City Enterprises (majority) ONEXIM Sports & Entertainment(minority) |
| Operator | AEG Facilities |
| Construction cost | $1 billion[2] |
| Architect | AECOM (Ellerbe Becket) SHoP Architects |
| Project manager | Forest City Ratner Companies |
| Structural engineer | Thornton Tomasetti |
| Services engineer | WSP Flack + Kurtz |
| General contractor | Hunt Construction Group[3] |
| Capacity | Basketball: 17,732 Ice hockey: 14,500 Concert: 19,000[2] |
| Website | Official website |
| Public transit access | Atlantic Terminal , Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center |
| Tenants | |
| Brooklyn Nets (NBA) (2012–present) New York Islanders (NHL) (beginning in 2015) | |
Barclays Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Brooklyn, New York. It sits partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority–owned Vanderbilt Yards rail yard at Atlantic Avenue. It is part of a $4.9 billion sports arena, businessand residential complex known as the Atlantic Yards.[4]
The arena hosts the National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets,[5] along with concerts, conventions and other sporting events, competing with other facilities in the New York metropolitan area, including Madison Square Garden in Manhattan,Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Prudential Center in Newark, and Izod Center in East Rutherford. Beginning in 2015, it will also be the home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.[6]
Initially proposed in 2004 when real estate developer Bruce Ratner purchased the Nets as the first step of the process to build a new home for the team,[7] the development of the arena was saddled with controversies involving local residents, the use ofeminent domain, definition of blight,[8] demolition of buildings such as the Ward Bakery, multiple lawsuits, as well as a lack of financing, delaying the start of construction for many years. Groundbreaking occurred on March 11, 2010, and the arena was opened to the public on September 21, 2012. It held its first event with a Jay-Z concert on September 28, 2012.[1][9] On July 22, 2013, the U. S. Green Building Congress awarded LEED® Silver Certification for New Construction to Barclays Center, the first professional sports and entertainment venue in the New York metro area to achieve this status for its sustainable design and construction methods.[10]
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Barclays Center was conceived by Bruce Ratner of real estate developer Forest City Ratner Companies, the New York office ofForest City Enterprises, who acquired the New Jersey Nets basketball team in 2004 with the purpose of moving them to the neighborhood of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and have them play in the arena that would be the center piece of his Atlantic Yards commercial and residential development project.[7] The site is located adjacent to the Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Centersubway station (2 3 4 5 B D N Q R trains) and the Long Island Rail Road’s Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, and was one of the most transit-accessible locations in the city. The move marked the return of major league sports to Brooklyn, which has been virtually absent since the departure of the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957. Coincidentally, the original proposal for a domed stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers was just north of the Atlantic Yards site, where the Atlantic Terminal Mall, also owned by Forest City Ratner Companies, is currently located.
Barclays Center was initially projected to open in 2006, with the rest of the Atlantic Yards complex to follow. However, controversies involving local residents, the use of eminent domain, as well as a lack of financing, delayed the project.[11] Due to these legal and financial troubles, the development deal seemed headed towards failure or collapse,[12] and Ratner at one point explored selling the team
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