Closing Bell: Work at Brooklyn Bridge Park Set To Begin

A few moments ago, the Brooklyn Bridge Development Corporation announced that Phase 1 of the park's development had formally been contracted for and would begin next month. The $47 million deal with Skanska will cover 2.5 acres of lawn at the foot of Old Fulton Street, 1,300 feet of waterfront promenade and a portion of the Brooklyn Greenway.

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a miracle! I was sure this project would be the first thing to get knocked off the city budget.

Posted by: gkw at October 22, 2008 4:05 PM

Awesome. I'm glad to see these efforts being made to add park space to the Brooklyn waterfront. It's a lot nicer than big skeletons of defunct manufacturing plants, and the like!

Posted by: cwbuecheler at October 22, 2008 4:14 PM

Is this like the forty-seventh announcement that work is about to begin any minute now?

Posted by: sam at October 22, 2008 4:29 PM

I continue to be amazed at these numbers. $47 million for a lawn and some paths?

Posted by: denton at October 22, 2008 4:53 PM

Grass that hallucinatory shade of green doesn't come cheap, denton.

Posted by: SnarkSlope at October 22, 2008 5:08 PM

No, sam, this is the first announcement that the development corporation actually signed a contract for construction.

Posted by: altervoce at October 22, 2008 5:16 PM

me thinks that the dumbo FSBO owner posted earlier has to be excited by this news.

Posted by: donniedarko at October 22, 2008 5:52 PM

Sam - I believe I owe you a big "I told you so". Buy me some beers and meet me on the lawn at pier 1 in October 09.

Denton - it's not just some grass and some paths. There is a ton of infrastructure work. There are also tons of fill that are being added to the site to create a unique toptgraphy. And there is a signifcant amount of maritime work, which is alway very expensive.

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at October 22, 2008 7:04 PM

what a never-ending boondoggle.
forget the park already,
forget all the hangers on collecting salaries (for what?) at the various park-related development authorities and conservation societies.
This is a tax-dollar vacuum-cleaner of the first order. A scam employment-for-life-for-goo-goos and landscape architects the likes of which we have not seen in NY since Boss Tweed ran the Democrat party machine out of Tammany Hall.
This Park is a farce. A lie. A boondoggle. And if you press me further, I will let you know what I really think.

Posted by: sam at October 22, 2008 7:39 PM

Money has been wasted on this park. Its been wasted by the people Governor Pataki appointed who did practically nothing on the park but spend money. Its been wasted because of needless lawsuits because people want their NIMBY vision of a park. The new people particularly Regina Myers is really finally beginning to get it built. You can complain all you want and say too much but the cost of building things on the waterfront by government entities is just too much. In Manhattan to redo the Intrepid and its pier it cost $110,000,000 mostly public money that came through the Hudson River Trust(which gets its money from the PILOTS from Battery Park City)...so SAM you can tell us how its as bad as the Tweed courthouse but at least that got built...and someone went to jail.

Posted by: smeyer418 at October 22, 2008 10:16 PM

Well I guess we're making progress. For years Sam has been ranting and raving about how the Park will never get built. Now that it's getting built, Sam is forced to move on to going on about how the park is wasting money. Just for the record, I believe there are only 4 people who collect salaries from the Brookly Bridge Park Development Corp. And as for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, all the folks who earn a salary there are paid out of private money - none of that is funded by the public sector. Nice try though.

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at October 23, 2008 12:52 AM

making progress for years is alot im hoping to see it alot Air ducts. www.silversheet.org

Posted by: patrai808 at October 23, 2008 2:34 AM

You know, there are certain things that just are not right, and this is one of them. The landscape design costs are something like twenty four million dollars. the salaries for all the do-nothing jobs, all these long years? millions!
For what? A park that most people in the area don't want?
It is just hallucinatory. You have to eat the mushrooms to see it I guess. The 12:52 poster is the mushroom grower.

Posted by: sam at October 23, 2008 6:50 PM

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