GroundBreaking Service For The Brooklyn Nets

Today a Team grows in Brooklyn. After Years Of Anticipation Today Begins the ground work at Atlantic Yards For the New Jersey Nets.  Governor David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz today joined Forest City Ratner Companies Chairman and CEO Bruce Ratner, Barclays PLC President Robert E. Diamond, Jr., and NETS investor and cultural icon Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter at the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards.

The Barclays Center will host more than 200 events annually, including professional and collegiate sports, concerts, family shows, and NETS Basketball.
 
While construction has been on-going since last fall, today’s ceremony marks the next phase of construction of the arena, which is expected to open in 2012. You Can Catch all the action at barclayscenter.com

Pictures of the new arena design & Jay Z live Press Conference after the jump