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Barclays Center (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i z / BAR-kleez) [9] is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association. [10]
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The Barclays Center Fact Sheet boasts that the arena has "one of the most intimate seating configurations ever designed into a modern multipurpose sports arena with unparalleled sight lines."
After September 2009, the design for what became Barclays Center became a collaboration between Ellerbe Becket and the Manhattan architectural firm SHoP Architects. [10] Pacific Park, overseen by the Empire State Development Corporation, [ 1 ] is supposed to be a public-private project, Bruce Ratner told Crain's New York Business in November 2009.
In April 2015, LIU announced a 49-year lease of the Paramount to a company controlled by Bruce Ratner and Mikhail Prokhorov, owners of the Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets. They planned an extensive renovation costing about $50 million, overseen by the firm of Hugh Hardy, to convert the auditorium back to a theater for live events.
The Barclays Center Classic is an annual early season college basketball tournament that was inaugurated in 2012. Each of the eight schools plays four games, with the bracketed portion of the tournament concluding at the tournament's namesake Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York .
Tennessee athletics announced Monday that UT basketball will play Maryland as part of the Hall of Fame Invitational at the Barclays Center in New York.
The building was designed as a multi-purpose field house, handling six or seven sports (men's), including use as an indoor football field and track. Seating and flooring were intentionally mobile, and the floor was originally dirt; the football team practiced in the venue during bad weather. The basketball floor was laid over a bed of 2x4s ...