<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Judge issues ruling in favor of Brooklyn arenaAssociated PressUpdated: June 6, 2007, 8:54 PM ETNEW YORK -- A federal judge delivered a setback Wednesday to Brooklyn residents trying to stop the state from leveling their homes to make way for a new arena for the NBA's Nets.U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis dismissed one of two major legal challenges to the project, which is also to include office space and as many as 6,400 new apartments in towers designed by architect Frank Gehry.Thirteen holdout tenants, homeowners and business owners in the mega-development's vast footprint sued last year to save their properties. They said the planned seizures were a sham, orchestrated for the sole purpose of enriching the Nets principal owner, Bruce Ratner.</div>Judge Gives Nets Big Ruling In Arena CaseWas hoping they'd go against the Nets here, but I guess not. They hope to have the arena ready for the 2009-2010 season, so at this point we get 2 more years of the Nets...though with a slow building process and all these court cases, it could be longer. But overall a huge step forward for Ratner and the Nets in the move to Brooklyn.
This concerns me how? I don't like the Nets current arena at all that's why.. I just don't like it and the whole New Jersey Nets thing looks kind of out it's time now, in other words the Nets need to be refreshed and the sooner the better they can move on to Brookyln then the sooner I can be a little more optimistic about where there franchise is heading.
