City officials and affordable housing advocates gathered yesterday for the official groundbreaking of Atlantic Terrace, a mixed-income co-op the Fifth Avenue Committee is developing on Atlantic and South Portland avenues. Fifty percent of the building’s units will be reserved for low-income families and 20 percent will go to middle-income earners, with prices ranging from around $83,500 to $344,500. The development, which should be complete in about two years, is being touted as the largest green affordable building in Brooklyn history and will be constructed with recycled materials. (Check out the rendering on the jump.) According to an Observer article last week, however, the fact that Atlantic Terrace is rising directly across the street from future Atlantic Yards high-rises hampered plans to include solar panels on the co-op’s roof. The shadows the planned Atlantic Yards buildings are expected to cast would have affected how the solar panels operate, according to Michelle de la Uz, the Fifth Avenue Committee’s executive director. We would have loved to have had the solar roof, but it just didn’t make any sense because of the shadows,” said de la Uz.
In The Shadow of Atlantic Yards [NY Observer] GMAP
Shadows Eclipse Eco Apartments [NY Post]
Mixed-Rate Building Next to Atlantic Yards [Brownstoner]