Rendering of the B2 modular tower at Atlantic Yards (source: SHoP Architects)

The 17 tenants who accepted a relocation deal to leave their homes on the site of what is now the Barclays Center may soon be moving back home. But seven years later, some of those displaced residents are still fuming, the New York Daily News reported.

Under the unique deal, Forest City promised tenants living within the blueprint of the new Nets stadium affordable units in the B2, the new 32-story residential complex in Atlantic Yards, when completed in the summer of 2014. In the interim, tenants got nearby apartments at the same rent, in return for moving. [more]

Rendering of the B2 modular tower at Atlantic Yards (source: SHoP Architects)

The first residential component at Atlantic Yards, a 32-story tower known as B2, will contain 930 prefabricated units and a mix of studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms, developer Forest City Ratner said today.

The company had announced in October that the 15 residential towers at the project would be built using pre-fabricated, modular construction. But details revealed today show a unit breakdown of 150 studios, 165 one-bedrooms and 48 two-bedrooms, with 20 percent of the two-bedroom units offered as affordable housing. The groundbreaking is scheduled for Dec. 18. When completed in 2014, B2 will be the tallest modular building in the world. [more]

From left: Forest City Ratner’s Bruce Ratner and MaryAnne Gilmartin and a rendering of B2

Forest City Ratner is slated to set a record in modular construction, the New York Post reported. Not only will the company develop 15 buildings at Atlantic Yards using modular construction, but according to MaryAnne Gilmartin, the company’s executive vice president of commercial and residential development, the construction of B2, a 34-story pre-fab building, will shatter the current record of 24 stories. [more]