Bruce Ratner - MetroTech Center and Atlantic Center

MetroTech Center and Atlantic Center

He developed the $1 billion complex of nine buildings in downtown Brooklyn called MetroTech. He built a 393,000 square-foot shopping mall at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in the 1990s. His projects have been derided as ugly urban strip malls.

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