• A number of major cities signed off on projects that were to bring great development around major attractions, but the weak economic recover in the U.S. has left those plans largely on paper.
• In Brooklyn, the Nets pro basketball team that used to have "New York" in front of its name will have a new $1 billion arena this fall, but the area where the arena has been built has seen little else of the Atlantic Yards redevelopment that was supposed to accompany it.
• New London, Conn., went to the Supreme Court of the United States to defend its eminent domain seizure of private homes for a developer's project that was to bring vitality to the Thames River waterfront. Seven years later, nothing's happening on that land.

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Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on a home for the newly renamed Brooklyn Nets basketball team that is the country's most expensive professional sports arena, but the surrounding neighborhood still is waiting for housing and other benefits. ...