After three months of fierce competition, the Barclays Center team is victorious in the match to redevelop the Nassau Coliseum, beating out archrival Madison Square Garden Co. for the 63-acre prize in Uniondale, Long Island. Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano made the announcement Thursday morning, praising the winning bid as the most promising for the future of the arena site and the county as a whole.
The Barclays Center bid has promised a $229 million project designed by SHoP Architects that sheathes the arena in a nest of glass and steel, looking like a hypertrophied Barclays Center. The remade arena would host 309 events a year, including boxing matches, college hoops, even six games by the Islanders hockey team, which are poised to move to the Barclays Center as soon as the 2013-2014 hockey season. Concerts will be led by the Barclays partners in the bid, Live Nation and Jay Z's Roc Nation.
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Turning a multi million dollar losing arena into a $200M potential profit for the Long Island county while giving Dolan another L.
