WeLive/WeWork Planning to Build Apartments in Navy Yard?
New York YIMBY has published renderings for an impressive-looking new mixed-use building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Designed by S9/Perkins Eastman and intended to house WeLive/WeWork housing and workspace, it’s a prototype, we’re guessing, not an actual project. The city-owned Navy Yard, managed by a nonprofit corporation, is zoned for industrial and commercial use. WeWork…
New York YIMBY has published renderings for an impressive-looking new mixed-use building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Designed by S9/Perkins Eastman and intended to house WeLive/WeWork housing and workspace, it’s a prototype, we’re guessing, not an actual project.
The city-owned Navy Yard, managed by a nonprofit corporation, is zoned for industrial and commercial use. WeWork was talking to the Navy Yard about leasing 500,000 square feet of office space in 2013, but the lack of transportation was a stumbling block and as far as we know nothing came of it.
Click through to see more renderings. What do you think of the idea of building housing in the Navy Yard and this particular design?
First Look: WeWork/WeLive’s New Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard [NYY]
Renderings by S9/Perkins Eastman
Update: A Navy Yard spokesperson called to say there is no plan to add housing in the Navy Yard. She emailed this statement: The Brooklyn Navy Yard continues to be a driver of economic opportunity and is focused on capturing and nurturing growth industries that are fueling the City’s resurgence. While the Yard is undergoing the largest expansion at any time since World War II, it remains true to its core mission and therefore there will not be residential development within the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We won’t offer any other comment on any potential development.
There was a train line there prior to 1969 that was closed due to low use / fire. The BMT Myrtle Avenue line. A part of it remains in the form of the current M train that splits of the J and goes to Queens (via RidgeWood). In fact, there’s some remaining of the old tracks by the Myrtle JMZ stop.
Seams short sighted in high sight. But the again the city didn’t make a whole lot of good decisions in the 60, 70s or 80s… some of which we’re dealing with today.
This wikipedia page has more about the closed stations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMT_Myrtle_Avenue_Line. Also: http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/BMT_Myrtle_Avenue_Line
My neighbor used to take that line from Broadway-Myrtle into downtown BK to go to school in the 60s. He said it would take about 15 minutes (as compared to 40 minutes on the bus that replaced it) and it had those old nice subway cars.
I’m going to reply to my self to say that the comment section totally ruined the formatting of this (it was 3 different paragraphs).
Always wondered why they never considered residential in there….no different from Red Hook IMO….i’d live there on the right space
That’s what I did. It didn’t work 🙁