Ratner: 'Fort Greene, I've Got You Surrounded'
Man, it’s getting hard to keep up with all the towers that are sprouting up in Downtown Brooklyn. Yesterday, Curbed ran some renderings of Bruce Ratner’s latest project at 80 Dekalb Avenue aka 625 Fulton Street. The 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed silver scraper will have 369 apartments spread out over 335,187 square feet. As we saw…
Man, it’s getting hard to keep up with all the towers that are sprouting up in Downtown Brooklyn. Yesterday, Curbed ran some renderings of Bruce Ratner’s latest project at 80 Dekalb Avenue aka 625 Fulton Street. The 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed silver scraper will have 369 apartments spread out over 335,187 square feet. As we saw when we swung by at the end of the day, demolition of the existing three- and four-story building that runs most of the way towards Fulton from Dekalb is in full swing. Curbed reported that the property is listed as a rental on the Kondylis site, but we bet nothing’s set in stone just yet. Anyone know if this has an affordable housing component? For political reasons alone we suspect it will.
Kondylis + Ratner on DeKalb Avenue [Curbed] GMAP P*Shark DOB
I also wonder how many of you commenters know Brooklyn. This project is like TWO blocks from a hood with only three stories tall brownstones,famlies. Now they will get to walk into their backyard & look up 45 stories. Ah the beauty of it. Now Thats Progress !
I’m surprised not one of you has mentioned proximity to the BAM Cultural District/ Downtown Brooklyn Partnership which begins with the building on the far corner of Rockwell between Fulton and DeKalb and continues for several square blocks.
I for one am very interested to see what happens to this edge of Fort Greene/Downtown Brooklyn with the influx of people who choose to live in this building and Forte + all of the new and/or improved cultural organizations.
It has the potential to be a very exciting area (for me, thankfully, nearby but a destination).
Please give me a break! Urban farms? WTF?!?!?
I’m just sad that I don’t see any real innovation in land use in NYC like urban farms.
I’ve heard a rumer that Union Market (on Union Street and Sixth Avenue) is going to open a second, much larger store in the current site of Dollar Dreams.
I own in Fort Greene I am excited about all this development.
Thank you all.
I can’t say I have a problem with density as a concept, but I will miss the neighborhood. FG has had its problems, but I moved here in the 80’s because I liked the mix of people – the human landscape. I worry about the architectural quality of the buildings – oro seems to be the best of a truly miserable lot – forte is just awful. Frankly, I worry about the newcomers who would see FG as a kind of alternative to the upper east side.
This new building seems to be on only the DeKalb side of the block, with the much larger “625 Fulton St†side being unaffected. The rendering is consistent with this going not very deep down the side streets.
The scaffolding only extends a bit down Rockwell and Hudson, and most of the rest of the block looks as though it will remain in operation. (Dollar dreams on Fulton, various government offices on all three sides.) A security guy in the Social Security offices on Fulton that I spoke to tonight said (as I far as he knew, obviously) the only construction is on the DeKalb end of the block. Demolition is starting to go below grade – but (again) only along DeKalb.
Since it appears that Ratner owns most of the block, those buildings must be contributing FAR to the 36 story tower.
yes, just what we should all be praying for. a real estate crash. you really love brooklyn, don’t ya?
shall we also hope for the plague to get rid of this pesky overpopulation problem?
sicko.