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Wilpon, City Of N.Y. Sign Deal To Redevelop "Blighted" Citi Field Neighborhood

A new deal between N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration and a group of developers including Mets Owner Fred Wilpon and team President Saul Katz “calls for the remediation and redevelopment of a 20-acre area of the blighted Willets Point neighborhood next to Citi Field,” according to Deepti Hajela of the Bergen RECORD. Developers Related Companies and Sterling Equities under the agreement would “clean up the area and construct retail stores, including a mall in the Queens neighborhood.” Then, "no later than 2025, they would start construction on a mixed-use component that would include housing, and measure anywhere from 1.3 million square feet up to 4.5 million square feet.” The area is currently "populated by auto-repair shops and junkyards and lacking infrastructure as basic as sewers” (Bergen RECORD, 5/18).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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