Roof Lawn Being Installed On Barclays Center

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) The Barclays Center is going green. Literally.

To complement its famous rust-colored structure, a green mat-like plant will soon carpet the roof of the Brooklyn arena, CBS 2s Tony Langford reported.

Workers will install agreen plant called sedum, just like what already can be found on top of the transit entrance outside Barclays, the home of the Brooklyn Nets and future home of the New York Islanders.

When you think about residents that live around Central Park and look out to a beautiful green amenity, we like to think that this roof is going to be such an amenity for the thousands of people that end up living at Atlantic Yards, said Ashley Cotton, senior vice president of external affairs atForest City Ratner Companies, the developer that co-owns the arena.

But how exactly do you plant greenery on top of an arena?

Forest City Ratner said the building already has the structural support to handle thenatural toupe.

Therell be a second roof so there will actually be a gap of space between the existing roof that Brooklynites have been seeing for two years now and another roof, and the planting will be done on (top of) that, Cotton said.

Installation of the roof lawn will begin this year. And once planted, itwill not need to be watered.

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Roof Lawn Being Installed On Barclays Center