Bruce Ratner is kicking Atlantic Yards construction into overdrive for the next three months, ahead of the Barclays Center’s planned Sept. 28, 2012 opening date. According to the Brooklyn Paper, the Empire State Development Corporation, which is overseeing the development, released a new schedule that has workers on the job between 6 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. — beginning one hour earlier and ending one hour later than in their previous schedule — and also working on Saturdays. The Saturday work will go on between 7 am and 5:30 p.m. beginning this weekend. A spokesperson for Forest City Ratner said the $4.9 billion project, which is to include 16 residential and office towers in addition to the basketball arena, is “completely on schedule” and is only intensifying its schedule to take advantage of an opportunity to work while the nearby Long Island Rail Road train yard allows for it. [Brooklyn Paper]
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Atlantic Yards workers to pick up the pace
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