Big Plans for Fulton Mall Makeover
The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is gearing up for a $15 million renovation of the Fulton Mall. According to an article by Stephen Witt in the print edition of yesterday’s Courier Life, the renovation will take two years and be performed in two phases. Phase 1 will create new public space (to be called Albee Square…
The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is gearing up for a $15 million renovation of the Fulton Mall. According to an article by Stephen Witt in the print edition of yesterday’s Courier Life, the renovation will take two years and be performed in two phases. Phase 1 will create new public space (to be called Albee Square Plaza) in front of the entrance to the old Albee Square Mall; as part of this project, Dekalb Avenue will be closed from Bond Street to Albee Square West. The Partnership envisions this space being used for anything from performances to outdoor markets. Phase 2, which won’t start until next year, will address outdoor infrastructure like sidewalks and street furniture throughout the rest of the Fulton Mall. “The new streetscape will bring everything down to a more personal and individual level so instead of seeing a giant ugly bus shelter you will see trees, benches, plantings and the stores,” DBP’s Michael Burke told The Courier. Existing retail tenants and landlords, who have been consulted though the design process, are looking forward to the upgrades: “When we saw the plans for this we were absolutely thrilled,” said Macy’s SVP Ed Goldberg. “It will make the whole streetscape much more modern and conducive to shopping and safer.”
dittoburg- if snark were giving out SOTD’s still you’d have won with that comment 🙂
Who is Peter Brimelow and why is he making such dumb comments?
I think Fulton Mall proves that pedestrianization (with mass transit access still) does not necessarily kill business as we often hear stated.
I’ve been shopping downtown for years, and I have to agree with Bxgrl, too. I miss the great fabric stores that used to be on Bridge Street, and A&S was a great department store. Macy’s always looks like they bring in all the stuff they can’t sell in Manhattan, and try to unload it here.
I don’t like the streetlights in the rendering. They look like the buses hit them already. Speaking of which, the biggest wishful thinking here is not only the polyglot mix of people, it’s the idea that at any given time, two city buses could be in sight of each other.
Fulton Mall is one of those lightning rod issues, dave. Everytime we have a thread it goes the same. As far as What- is there any thread where he has said anything other than a rant, a gross insult or without a motive to stir up a hornet’s nest? If you’ve ever noticed, he jumps on both sides of an issue- anything to be on the opposite dide, even if it means contradicting himself.
The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
– Peter Brimelow
I like how everyone is so binary – you’re black or white and thats it. Talk about a mirror of prejudices.
The old white due isn’t white. He’s lebanese. The girl reading the magazine is totally Mexican.
“They have removed parking on the north side of DeKalb Ave from Classon to Flatbush in order to accomodate the Limited B38 Bus service and speed morning traffic for connections to….
Juniors?”
You don’t mention that a right turn off DeKalb onto Flatbush takes drivers north to the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. I’m sure that’s a factor in the changes. I don’t take the bus, so I know nothing about that part, however I don’t think it’s such a terrible thing to close DeKalb between Bond and Albee Square West.
definitely prejudice in the previous posts.
when there are all white people in anything, people scream for diversity. when there are all black people and the drawing shows diversity (the girl on bench could be hispanic along with others in the background), people scream racism. can’t win.
Thanks for all the jokes – a good ploy so nobody will bother discussing this awful idea.
Cleaning up the Fulton Mall is great but closing down DeKalb between Bond to Albee Square West is brain dead.
They have removed parking on the north side of DeKalb Ave from Classon to Flatbush in order to accomodate the Limited B38 Bus service and speed morning traffic for connections to….
Juniors?
This is bad planning – the regional planners have looked the other way while transit connections such as the Myrtle Bus transfer to the A train (long gone) are eliminated one by one. Now taking the B38 to Jay St. or Court St. for other train connections will be pointless.
I truly hope this plan is revised. Like bxgrl, I shopped her before it was a “mall” in Martins, Abraham and Straus and Mays. The shabby heavily used and hugely beat up Fulton Mall area does need refurbishing, but this plan is awful for transit and for the community at large.