As Curbed noted yesterday and the Post picked up on today, the city is once again trying to get developers interested in expanding the House of Detention on Atlantic Ave. and adding ground-floor retail to the building. The consortium known as the Brooklyn House of Detention Community Stakeholders Group, which formed after the the Dept. of Corrections declined to consider the one proposal submitted for the jail last year, reprinted a section of the RFP on its site: “The purpose of this project is to create additional housing for 720 inmates in twelve dormitories of sixty beds each; create space within the new addition and within the first three floors of the existing structure providing programmatic support and ancillary accommodations for the increased capacity; improve the existing structure’s deteriorating facade; create continuous ground floor retail space within the existing jail space along Atlantic Avenue and relocate displaced jail functions elsewhere on site; and explore the prospect of incorporating parking within the confines of the site.” One wonders how much developer interest there’ll be in this sort of deal, though the city says it wants to pick a firm to helm the project by July.
Brooklyn’s Jail with Retail is Back with a Lot More Jail [Curbed]
Brooklyn Jail Eyes Cell-Out [NY Post]
Locals Put Heat On City For Ignoring House of D Plan [Brownstoner] GMAP
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