To the great surprise of local developer Marshall Sohne (who’s done conversion and development projects on Tiffany Place and DeGraw Street), Community Board 6 has overwhelmingly rejected his proposal for three modern townhouses on the corner of Columbia and Woodhull Streets in Red Hook. Evidently, board members didn’t like that the defining material of the proposed buildings was metal. It’s not that the committee is against modern, it’s that the committee wants some elements of the existing Columbia Street stock, incorporated in the design, said Land Use Committee czar Jerry Armer. As far as Sohne is concerned, context doesn’t mean a whole lot when the surroundings are “pretty much some crumbling buildings, barbed wire, and used car lots. Since the community board’s vote is purely advisory in nature, there will be no changes to the plans before they go in front of the BSA.
Land Use Committee Doesn’t Welcome Columbia St. Plan [Courier Life]
A Red Hook Renewal on Tiffany Place [NY Times]
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