Barclays Center Buzz Continues
The long-awaited Barclays Center is nearly ready for its grand opening concert featuring Jay-Z on September 28 and the buzz about the new sports arena/events center is picking up steam.
A long list of celebrities the likes of Barbra Streisand, Andrea Boccelli, Rush, Leonard Cohen and Justin Bieber have already signed up to perform; college ball and boxing matches are already being scheduled; the center was just announced as New York’s new home of gospel – featuring Grammy Award-winning Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Choir; and Brooklyn Hospital Center has been designated the arena’s “Hometown Hospital.”
The Brooklyn Nets basketball team is also making Barclays Center its new home, moving over from New Jersey, debuting a sleek new logo, and triggering a rush by sports fans to buy more merchandise in the first week of sales than any other team at both the NBA store in Manhattan and online. Twitter even took notice, with the Brooklyn Nets trending across 39 countries when the brand launched on April 30.