LICH Developer Plans Two 50-Story Towers in Cobble Hill to Offset Cost of Hospital
The firm chosen to develop the Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill is planning to build two 50-story residential towers to offset the cost of keeping a full-service hospital there, according to a report in Crain’s. The height would certainly be taller than anything seen before in the neighborhood, where LICH buildings currently rise…
The firm chosen to develop the Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill is planning to build two 50-story residential towers to offset the cost of keeping a full-service hospital there, according to a report in Crain’s. The height would certainly be taller than anything seen before in the neighborhood, where LICH buildings currently rise to about 12 stories.
The report was based on documents and emails from a financial advisor to the project, said Crain’s. Brooklyn Health Partners downplayed but did not deny the report, saying that it is not yet “focused” on the residential part of the development. “BHP’s sole focus is closing with the State University of New York so it can begin to provide medical services to the citizens of Brooklyn, as promised,” said a spokeswoman. “When the time is appropriate, we will sit with the various community stakeholders and discuss how we will build a 21st-century collaborative product that all of New York can be proud of.”
The firm envisions a 40- to 50-story condo tower on the site of a large parking garage on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hicks Street, pictured above, according to the story. The building would be 20 percent affordable. There would also be a rental tower, 40 percent of which would be affordable. “We are spoon-feeding our deal to de Blasio,” said one of the partners in an email about the proposal. The proposal seen by the public during the bid process did not specify the height of the residential buildings, but said merely that there would be 1,000 units built on open space and the garage site.
To secure the deal, Brooklyn Health Partners must deliver a nonrefundable deposit of $25,000,000 by May 4, “or the state will negotiate with the Peebles group,” said Crain’s.
50-Story Towers Eyed for LICH Site [Crain’s]
Feeling heartbroken — we could have a 50 story building at the LICH site?, and now that the agreement that would have kept the Pier 6 tower similar to the height of the other buildings currently underway in Brooklyn Bridge Park (Pierhouse/TollBrothers) has expired, we could have 30 story lux condos on Pier 6 too?
Doesn’t it seem like the southern part of the Brooklyn Bridge Park area isn’t being treated as well as the northern part of the park was? Previously “tasteful” now gone awry?
There are lots of people who live near the Atlantic entrance to the Park (all those neighborhoods with no parks at all) and they need green space too?
With so much change possible in one area, it seems like a really thoughtful, joint- impact, community involved process is needed?
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/10/de_blasio_asked_to_halt_possible_residential_towers_at_pier_6.php
Hicks Street has alway been kind of a sketchy area. Most people in the neighborhood avoid it as much as possible.
This is INSANE. THE HOSPITAL NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN (the CIty and state have NO RIGHT to tell the owners what they can do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a normal building needs to be developed. And it shuld be 10% for the poor and the rest at market rate. This City is turning into a crazy loonybin!
In other words: “We have no intention of keeping the hospital open”. I cannot imagine that 50 story towers are going to get the green light. And the poor developer just can’t justify keeping the hospital going without them, so….
And they are being bullied by the unions to make sure it doesnt get sold. It is crazy. There are so many hospitals close by.
It’s the same half mile from the Borough Hall 2/3/4/5/R complex.
Modular housing!!! How green 🙂
because there is nothing remotely close to that height anywhere in the vicinity. As someone else pointed out, it’s a neighborhood consisting primarily of 4 story buildings. The tallest buildings in Brooklyn Heights are, what? 25 stories? 50 is utterly incongruous in this location.
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