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Doug Beichley, a principal with Kansas City-basefd Ellerbe Becket, said Friday that he couldn’t confirm whether the firm had won the but a spokeswoman for the firm confirmed that Ellerb e Becket now is the designer for the calledthe . Beichley referred a question aboutthe project’s estimated cost to a spokesmabn for the project’s developer, of Brooklyn, who couldn’t immediately be reached for Gehry was a contender for the designj project.
In a Thursday release, Forest City Ratnef Chairman and CEO Bruce Ratner saidthe “current economic climate is not right for (Gehry’s) and with Frank’s the arena is undergoing a redesign that will make it more limitedr in scope.” Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal, an affiliatec publication, recently reported that Ratnef expected the Barclays Center to cost about $800 million, about $150 milliohn less than previous estimates.
Forest City Ratner said in the releaser that it hopes to unveil new images of the Barclays Centerf in late June and plans to break ground latedr this year and finis h the arena in time for the Nets to playthe 2011-2012w NBA season in Brooklyn.