Aufgang Files for Big Mixed-Use Development at Fulton and Clermont in Fort Greene
A big mixed-use project at the corner of Fulton and Clermont Avenue, long in the works, moved forward today with a filing for a new-building permit — and Aufgang Architects is the architect of record. The details appear to match what developer GFI Capital told Community Board 2 in January, when the board renewed an approval for…
A big mixed-use project at the corner of Fulton and Clermont Avenue, long in the works, moved forward today with a filing for a new-building permit — and Aufgang Architects is the architect of record. The details appear to match what developer GFI Capital told Community Board 2 in January, when the board renewed an approval for a land use variance for the project.
The filing is for 810 Fulton Street, a new address, currently one of the last undeveloped lots on Fulton Street in Fort Greene. The project, which is to connected to alterations to the forbidding gray building next door at 470 Vanderbilt Avenue, also owned by GFI Capital, will occupy 16 small lots on the wedge-shaped parking area between Clermont and Vanderbilt, pictured above, all of which will be merged into one tax lot.
Plans at 810 Fulton Street, as previously reported, call for a 12-story building with 363 apartments. The 327,000-square-foot development will have 34,308 square feet of ground floor retail. There will also be parking for 163 cars (79 stackers and five spaces), a laundry room, gym and children’s area, according to Schedule A documents. It will also have 85 affordable rentals, which is 23 percent of the 363 units, as previously reported.
Aufgang Architects, based in Suffern, N.Y., is also working on the adaptive reuse of the landmarked former Brillo pad factory at 200 Water Street in Dumbo. The Fort Greene project has been in the works since 2009.
Big Mixed-Use Development Planned for 470 Vanderbilt Avenue [Brownstoner] GMAP
Photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark
It’s great to see these parking lots filled in with apartments and retail. But we don’t need 173 additional parking spaces in the neighborhood. We need less parking, not more. The zoning ordinance actually requires parking in new buildings in Brooklyn, which it totally nuts and inconsistent with any “green” theory of planning, which seeks to discourage driving (and parking), not encourage it. The parking minimums are a relic of 1950s auto-centric thinking and need to be abolished. Most people in central Brooklyn do not get around in cars and these parking mandates just result in oceans of unused parking (and a subsidy for drivers).