Development at 340 Flatbush Extension Will Be Brooklyn's Tallest Building
The building coming to 340 Flatbush Extension — this is the site next door to Junior’s Cheesecake — will be taller than any other in Brooklyn at 775 feet and it will be designed by SHoP Architects. It won’t be quite the 1,000-foot-tall tower The New York Times was predicting would go up at Junior’s,…
The building coming to 340 Flatbush Extension — this is the site next door to Junior’s Cheesecake — will be taller than any other in Brooklyn at 775 feet and it will be designed by SHoP Architects. It won’t be quite the 1,000-foot-tall tower The New York Times was predicting would go up at Junior’s, but it’s close.
To put that in context, Brooklyn’s current tallest tower, 388 Bridge Street, is 590 feet tall.
The developers are partners JDS and Chetrit, who were also bidding on the Junior’s site. It’s not yet known who is in contract for 33 Dekalb Avenue.
SHoP, which also designed Barclay’s Center and Domino, is known for interesting and innovative buildings, so we expect their design will be a plus for the area.
Permits filed yesterday call for 70 stories and 495 apartments. The building will have 555,734 square feet of space in total, including 108,799 square feet of retail, as NY YIMBY was the first to report.
What do you think of the plans?
340 Flatbush Ave Extension to Become Brooklyn’s Tallest Building [NY YIMBY]
Tallest Tower in Brooklyn, 1,000 Feet High, Could Sprout on Junior’s Site [Brownstoner]
Photo by Google Maps via NY YIMBY
I’m a big fan of downtown BK, think tall development is appropriate for the area – but man – the congestion on Flatbush is going to be an increasingly negative factor for quality of life. Any hiccup in traffic, stalled cars, fender bender, crowds leaving Barclays, road work, etc, turns Flatbush into a parking lot. There is a vertiable parade of sirens any given night as emergency vehicles try to move through traffic. With only a couple of legal turning points between the bridge and Barclays, everything bottlenecks. In a building like this, where will cabs stop to pick up and drop off people, where do residents double park to unload groceries, children, luggage after a long trip? Between this site and the bridge you’ll have whatever replaces Juniors, this one, City point including a tower that could compete in height (phase 3), and whatever is built on the northwest corner of Willoughy and Flatbush across from City point. Moving past Juniors you have all the development around Bam – on both sides of Flatbush. Exciting but concerning at the same time.
There will be plenty of room for drop-offs if the parking lane is taken away in front of this/these building(s) and made into a loading zone. Bet that doesn’t happen though, over the howls of the usual suspect parking defenders.
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Even your own question asks “where do residents double park”….but isn’t the proper question “where will they stop/stand where they won’t get in anyone else’s way?” Getting rid of 5-6 parking spaces in front of the building would allow that. I’ve also seen a few non-luxury buildings in Chicago with a built in parking garage, and that parking garage has an area specifically for loading/unloading (for residents, without having to park there).
Cops, EMT, Fire Dept guys tend to park in any restricted parking spaces these new buildings carve out. Toren has a commercial parking only zone – about 5-6 spaces worth in front of the building – and it’s constantly filled with cars with placards. And Toren only has 240 units, this will have double. But agreed, there are parking spaces here that can be re-purposed for building residents. It will help a little.
That’s an additional issue. This city seems completely unwilling to combat placard abuse by city employees (imagine that).
HI Cate, or anyone reading this link,
I’m a bit confused about this story. I thought that through the end of yesterday (June) there was a bidding war for Juniors and that there was a strong possibility that the Juniors site would be combined with 340 (which is the other side of the same block/development). Does anyone know what came of the bidding war and if a standalone tower will go up where Juniors now stands as opposed to a block long development encompassing both Juniors and 340?
Thanks Cate. I guess we’ll be looking at two tall buildings going up on this block as opposed to one. But it will be interesting to see how things turned out with the bidding war and if the proposal for 340 winds up being amended as a result.