“There was a fear that Barclays would bleed over into the brownstone neighborhoods and take them over, like what’s happened around Madison Square Garden,” said Chris DeCrosta, the founding principal of GoodSpace, a retail-focused real estate brokerage, and a local resident. On the other hand, one doesn’t have to look far to find dramatic examples of changes that did occur, including soaring apartment towers, trendy restaurants and new public spaces. Indeed, only about half of the mixed-use megaproject around it, Pacific Park, for which the arena was to serve as an anchor, has been built. Its initial vision has not quite been fully realized on some of the blocks surrounding the arena, which is wedged at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. ![]() In the early 2000s, when plans for the Barclays Center were unveiled, its supporters seemed to make a huge bet: that the sports and entertainment venue could take a sleepy strip near Prospect Heights and turn it into one of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods.įrank Gehry, the center’s architect at the time, had pulled off a similar feat in Bilbao, Spain, which went from a low-key city to a global draw with the addition of a shimmering Guggenheim museum.
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