What I don't think anyone seems to understand is the preservationists balk at the idea of a gigantic parking lot taking the place of the majority of the buildings, not the idea of a grocery store allowing the neighborhood more options. Have you also seen the proposed square footage of said grocery store? FAR larger than necessary to accomodate the neighborhood. I like Pratt's intentions, and while price tag will be called into question, if Ratner and Co can get that much funding for 'subsidized housing' that will never come to fruition... why we can't preserve what little remains of the Navy Yard before another hospital becomes another empty, unused asphalt lot across the street (off Flatbush- seen it? Great use of space, anti-preservationists.)
And for those questioning the structural integrity of the majority of the buildings, other than some of the later wood additions in the back of some which are collapsing, they're sound and salvageable.
What I don't think anyone seems to understand is the preservationists balk at the idea of a gigantic parking lot taking the place of the majority of the buildings, not the idea of a grocery store allowing the neighborhood more options. Have you also seen the proposed square footage of said grocery store? FAR larger than necessary to accomodate the neighborhood. I like Pratt's intentions, and while price tag will be called into question, if Ratner and Co can get that much funding for 'subsidized housing' that will never come to fruition... why we can't preserve what little remains of the Navy Yard before another hospital becomes another empty, unused asphalt lot across the street (off Flatbush- seen it? Great use of space, anti-preservationists.)
And for those questioning the structural integrity of the majority of the buildings, other than some of the later wood additions in the back of some which are collapsing, they're sound and salvageable.
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Posted by: sympathetic compass at July 22, 2008 10:47 AM in response to Public Hearing on Future of Admirals Row Tonight