Mixed-Rate Building Next to Atlantic Yards
The New York City Housing Development Corporation, which provides debt financing for affordable housing, announced a slew of new projects around the five boroughs last week, including one that will be in the shadows of the Atlantic Yards project. According to a June 13 press release, a new 10-story co-op with 80 low-, middle- and…
The New York City Housing Development Corporation, which provides debt financing for affordable housing, announced a slew of new projects around the five boroughs last week, including one that will be in the shadows of the Atlantic Yards project. According to a June 13 press release, a new 10-story co-op with 80 low-, middle- and market-rate apartments will be built on the vacant lot at 669 Atlantic Avenue between South Portland Avenue and South Oxford Street in Fort Greene. This sounds like good news to us. We just can’t believe that Bruce Ratner doesn’t control this site. It’s certainly a heck of a lot more blighted than some of the places he’s trying to condemn by eminent domain. Then again, it might not be such good PR to try to hijack a property controlled by a do-gooder like Housing Partnership Development Corporation. It’s much better business to go after property owned by moms and pops. Update: A reader points out that the Fifth Avenue Committee is actually the developer and Magnusson is the architect (and the source of the rendering we’ve added above). Oh, and the project is apparently being called Atlantic Terrace.
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commercial space
Is that commercial space on the ground floor I see or just common area for the tenants
I read that the site for Atlantic Terrace was formerly a “Brownfield site”… what had the site been contaminated with? what kind of cleanup
was done?
Have fun living right across from the arena.
where do i get an application for these apartments? early bird catches the worm. the rest just write bout it on their blogs.
the architect grouped (light panels inset in the red brick) the windows so they would have the same scale as clerstory windows in 19th century factory buildings, a contextual touch in a contemporary building that i think is pretty successfull
I’m glad they will be co-ops, not rentals. A chance at ownership, not just cheap rentals, is what will help propel people upwards. A chance to have a physical stake in a community, utilize tax exemptions, equity – all the rights wealthier homeowners enjoy, is a good thing, and more programs should give people the opportunity to move from renters/tenants to owners.
It looks very similar to the building constructed around 10 years ago on Carlton and Atlantic, around the time Phase 2 of the three-family houses was built.
Fifth Avenue Committee is the developer. Other, earlier plans didn’t work, which is why this last (not counting the Vanderbilt Yards) ATURA site is being developed so much later. A rendering and brief description is on the architect’s website:
http://tinyurl.com/2jgzj8