Maryanne Gilmartin is CEO of Forest City Ratner. In 2009, she was the FCR executive in charge of getting Barclays Center built. It was not a slam dunk. At all.
In an interview with a business women's journal, Gilmartin.admits that she and Bruce Ratner were worried --petrified-- that they would not meet a December 31, 2009 financing deadline, the arena proposal would die ... and sale of the team would collapse.
"It was game over if we didn’t start building by the end of 2009," said Gilmartin. "The chairman of the company [Bruce Ratner] and I — only between the two of us — expressed dismay and worry we would fail.