The one site the city really wanted us to go to was Atlantic Terminal, which hadn't even submitted a proposal.

The Brooklyn board last year approved Atlantic Terminal, an office, shopping and residential center, also for downtown.

Negotiations over developing a commercial project above Atlantic Terminal began in 1996.

Meanwhile, land use approvals are in hand to redevelop Atlantic Terminal and the surrounding 24 acres.

The project is sited above the train yards belonging to the adjacent Atlantic Terminal, from which it gets its name.

Atlantic Terminal saw completion in 2010 of $93 million in renovations, including a new entry pavilion.

Just before the Atlantic Terminal, and joined to it through a new underground station, the three-mile tunnel would begin.

He also cited approval in the last year of a $530 million mixed use development project near the Atlantic Terminal.

A second 400,000-square-foot phase, to be called Atlantic Terminal, which will contain a Target, is expected to break ground in the spring.

An underground station would serve both the tunnel and the Atlantic Terminal.