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Court Rules Ratner Can Start Arena Site Demolition
by Andrea Bernstein
February 14, 2006 —A state Supreme Court justice has ruled that Forest City Ratner can begin demolishing five buildings in Prospect Heights Brooklyn where it wants to build a basketball arena and 17 high rise towers. The developer says the buildings are unsafe.
But in a sharply worked courtroom rebuke to the state and the developer, Judge Carol Edmead said the state's economic development agency could not use Forest City's lawyer for a purportedly independent review of the project. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.