August 3, 2006

Wham, BAM, Thank You, Ma'am

The Village Voice has a big article this week on the BAM LDC's development plans for its corner of Fort Greene:

Over the next decade, on four sites covering about 10 city blocks, the BAM LDC wants to build several large developments that will, if realized, drastically alter the landscape of Fort Greene and abutting parts of Downtown Brooklyn. Ground has already been broken for the Theater for a New Audience, designed by architects Frank Gehry and Hugh Hardy, on the so-called South Site. A new visual and performing-arts library is in the preliminary stages next door, complete with a Lincoln Center–style fountain. The North Site promises a mix of cultural outlets, public space and retail amenities, and 350 units of mixed-income housing. The East Site is obliquely described in LDC promotional literature as "being developed to house a cultural base of up to 60,000 square feet, as well as up to 150 units of housing." On a fourth plot, the West Site, the BAM LDC is negotiating over the property with existing owners and entertaining the option of more housing.

BAM LDC is quick to distance itself from another group with bold plans for the area, Forest City Ratner: "We didn't want to close any streets, make any zoning changes, or change the fabric of the existing community," says LDC president Jeanne Lutfy.
BAM Goes the Neighborhood [Village Voice]

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