Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said Tuesday he is considering a deal with the Shinnecock Nation for Nassau Coliseum.
He said the plan would include a resort and casino with a new arena for the Islanders.
“My administration has been in discussion with the Shinnecock Indian Nation with respect to Nassau Coliseum being listed as a site for an entertainment destination center and casino,” Mangano said in a statement Tuesday.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday that the Lighthouse project remains stalled and that an eventual relocation of the Islanders, possibly to Queens, remains firmly on the table.
via Newsday
Outspoken critic Daniel Goldstein Wednesday gave up his years-long fight and his apartment in a $3 million deal with the state and developer Bruce Ratner.
“If I’m going to be forced out of my home in very quick measure, I want to be paid for it,” said Goldstein, who had refused to move out of his three-bedroom apartment to make way for the massive arena project.
Via the Daily News
Via NJ.com
Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-Passaic) has fired the first political torpedo aimed at Mikhail’s Prokhorov’s purchase of the Nets, and it is directed at the Russian’s business relationship with the corrupt and repressive government of Zimbabwe.
Pascrell, admittedly opposed to the Nets’ move to Brooklyn in two years, has asked the Treasury Department to investigate the ties between Prokhorov’s corporation, Onexim, with the African nation, which has been under U.S. sanctions for seven years for human-rights violations.
Via Islanders Point Blank, a snippet from the press release handed out at the Atlantic Yards groundbreaking, announcing a partnership with IMG:
In addition to college basketball, IMG will assist BSE in staging college hockey, high-profile tennis events and high school sports at the Barclays Centers.
Check out the renderings here.
As NoLandGrab notes:
It appears from the renderings that the court-side seating is structural, which would render the arena incapable of accommodating an NHL-sized hockey rink — meaning no Brooklyn Islanders.
State development officials can seize properties in the footprint of developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project through eminent domain, a state court ruled on Monday morning, removing the most significant legal hurdle remaining before construction can begin on the Barclays Center arena.
Not news, but an interesting read about the feasibility of housing hockey at the proposed Atlantic Yards arena.
Murray’s initiative calls for the town to retain engineering and planning consultants to develop a scaled back zoning “blueprint,” establishing guidelines for the type and scope of construction to be permitted at the site.
“The bigger point is, does it make sense based on where the Islanders hockey fan base is to go to Brooklyn? . . . I don’t know the answer to it,” he said. “I think most [Islanders] hockey fans are based in either Queens or Nassau or Suffolk. . . . I think Charles’ preference, and I know it is, would be to keep the Islanders in a place where Islanders’ fans – current Islanders’ fans – would be able to continue to go to the games.”
Via Newsday
Listen to the interview here.
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