Nets principal owner Bruce Ratner has dismissed comments from renowned architect Frank Gehry, and claims that the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn will get built.

"I don't think it's going to happen," Gehry, 80, said in an interview with The Architect's Newspaper.

"Frank Gehry is a friend, a great architect and someone I have huge respect for," Ratner said in a statement. "It is understandable how he and others have concerns about this project happening in the worst economic environment since the Great Depression.

"But that said, we've prevailed in 22 judicial decisions and are ready to proceed even at a time when other projects and industries have faltered," he added. "Atlantic Yards will get built, and there has never been a time when this project was more important to the people of the state and City of New York and the Borough of Brooklyn."

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