A city proposal calls for rezoning parts of the neighborhood for taller buildings, and a proposed arena for the Nets at the nearby Atlantic Avenue rail yards could transform the area's profile even more.
The car looped west and turned up Pacific Street, into the footprint of the proposed arena.
And the proposed arena became sidelined by a combination of political and economic problems.
Eventually, the Devils are expected to join the Nets in YankeeNets' proposed arena in Newark.
He said residential development closer to the performing arts center and the proposed arena might have more chance of success.
After last year's mayoral election, the proposed arena deal ran into stiff opposition in the State Legislature.
Discussions about the proposed arena in Newark for the Nets and Devils -- whose fate has been wedded to whatever happened up in Bergen County -- have been continuing.
A map on Tuesday with an article about redevelopment plans for Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn referred imprecisely to a proposed arena for the New York Nets.
The long delay in starting to build the Nets' proposed arena near downtown Brooklyn is helping to cause huge financial losses.
That was what Gov. McGreevey promised in his announcement last month of the financial arrangements with the YankeeNets for the proposed arena.
Meanwhile, a Russian billionaire, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, is trying to buy 80percentt of the team and 45percentt of the proposed arena.
