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April 8, 2008
Behold 'Sunset Marketplace,' Time Equities' S. Park Plan
What you see above are renderings for the massive development project Time Equities has on tap for Sunset Park. The Greenberg Farrow-designed shopping center, which is being dubbed "Sunset Marketplace," will be part of Time Equities' redevelopment of two square blocks (30th to 32nd streets) between 3rd Avenue and the water. New construction on the site will total 790,000 square feet, according to Greenberg Farrow's website, including a large parking garage. The retail building will rise next to Federal #2, an huge industrial structure that Time Equities will redevelop for light industry and commercial tenants (there will probably also be some retail on Federal #2's ground floors). The EDC selected Time Equities and the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation for the project last May. According to Philip Gesue, Time Equities' project director for acquisitions and development, the proposal is now in pre-application review with City Planning and should enter ULURP soon.
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Whole Foods looking for a new dig?
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 9:57 AM
hope they dont shut down wild wild west.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 9:58 AM
Are those parking lots along the waterfront? All I can say is... only in America.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 10:00 AM
Get on with tearing down that Gowanus Expressway. When are they going to put it underground?
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 10:21 AM
LOL. Like they are going to get Banana Republic and Channel in those buildings! If you can't get them anywhere in Brooklyn, what makes them think that they will be next to a highway. Funny renderings.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 10:28 AM
The BQE view takes the cake as most unrealistic rendering since Thor Equities put out those perspective challenged views of their Coney Island development ...
Posted by: WillBklyn at April 8, 2008 10:38 AM
looks good. This should create badly needed jobs. providing space for the creative types will also help this area. There are plenty of creative types looking for new diggs from gowanus and williamsburg.
this waterfront area has plenty of potential. yet it should be wasted on peep-shows, go-go clubs, etc..
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 10:39 AM
God, I am so tired of reading about the creative types on this website. Turns out those losers seem to be tote bag makers with poor sewing skills who want to charge $60 for scrap material they spilled ink on. Very creative. Get a real job if you have no actual talent or business skills.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:01 AM
^^^^
Picked on as a child maybe because you colored in between the lines?
It would be great to see those spaces opened up. They should do something about the parking lot though. Maybe reduce parking and create a bus shuttle service instead from 4th ave?
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:08 AM
Also, nothing like shopping at Banana Republic and then dropping in enxt door at the federal MDC to visit any of your favorite 2,500 friends in the clink on illegal re-entry, durg trafficking, or RICO charges.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:09 AM
Man.....I hope WILD WILD WEST stays open!!! Now thats once classy joint!
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:27 AM
It looks to me like the cars on Gowanus are going the wrong way. Other than that, all's well.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:33 AM
Those buildings should have been converted into Condos, that's what brooklyn needs more of.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:56 AM
getting people to buy scrap material for 60 bucks seems like the business model for most clothing companies.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 11:59 AM
A lot of the old piers are turned into parking lots. They aren't structurally sound for much else, and repairing them costs a fortune.
Posted by: Polemicist at April 8, 2008 12:19 PM
The site is convenient to the Fed prison, the NYPD scuba unit and the storage lots for cars confiscated in crimes. Now that's what I call one-stop-shopping!
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 1:13 PM
More rendering here:
http://www.eekarchitects.com/portfolio_projects.cfm?Region=1&projectID=127173
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 3:07 PM
3:07, the EEK renderings are out of date. I asked Time Equities about them. Apparently EEK designed the plans that Time Eq submitted to the EDC in order to be selected for the project. Greenberg will be the architect of record on the new building, though.
Posted by: gabby_w at April 8, 2008 3:41 PM
In addition to the MDC and the BQE, there's a power generating plant at 29th and 2nd (Gowanus Generating Station). Another power plant at 23rd street too.
Now, if this type of development can push out environmental hazards like expressways and power plants, then I'm all for it.
By the way, the renderings show "Bonana Republic" and "Channel" instead of Chanel.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 3:56 PM
The view from under the Gowanus looking toward the buildings was done by someone on crack. Under the Gowanus is dark and disgusting. It's EXACTLY the reason why that part of the neighborhood degraded so much, because it is cut off by the Gowanus Expressway. Nothing is going to change that.
Read Jane Jacob's Death and LIfe of American Cities. she explains how an imposing, filthy piece of infrastruction like the Gowanus expressway can bisect a neighborhood and cause it to die.
Come on, even the real estate in the way, way West Village didn't explode until they took down a portion of the High Line running down Washington Street.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 5:29 PM
this project will never happen. Even that dirtbag Ratner has scaled back his nightmare atlantic yards because of the economy.
Do you seriously think in THIS economy a developer will invest in an area that is NOT near an affluent neighborhood, NOT near good public transportation ? At least one can say the atlantic yards was a better development location because it is near an affluent neighborhood (Park Slope) and sits on top of the biggest transportation hub in Brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 5:47 PM
Ratner has not scaled back AY, only delayed construction. You people can't understand the difference.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 9:42 PM
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