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Bruce Ratner must look at Eli Broad with tears of envy.  While Ratner has fought tooth and nail with residents, various elected officials, and skittish creditors to build his Xanadu (can Atlantic Yards still be called that after being repeatedly downsized?) in Brooklyn, Eli Broad has has had the luxury of Southern California cities fight [...]

SHoP Architects stumbled into an impossible situation, really.  From Frank Gehry to Ellerbe Becket to them, public approbation toward the Atlantic Yards project was bound to continue unabated, regardless of how sublime their rendering of the Brooklyn Nets arena turned out.
Even an arena worthy of Jerry Jones’ vanity would be incapable of blasting through New [...]