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Renderings Reveal Look of Long-Awaited Cultural Spaces in Fort Greene's 300 Ashland Tower

The 50,000 square-foot expanse, now called L10 Arts and Cultural Center, will feature movie theaters, performance spaces, galleries and a public library branch.

The raw space this morning. Photo by Craig Hubert

by Craig Hubert

12/04/2019 3 minute 0

After years of delay, ground was broken, so to speak, on the long-promised cultural spaces at 300 Ashland in Fort Greene this morning.

The new 50,000 square-foot space, now called L10 Arts and Cultural Center and occupying parts of the second and third floors of the development at 300 Ashland Place, will be home to future outposts of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Public Library, MoCADA and 651 Arts.

Three new movie theaters will be part of BAM’s space, as well as an extra room where items from their archives will be displayed. Rehearsal studios and performance space will be reserved for 651 Arts, Brooklyn Public Library will get a new branch, and MoCADA will receive gallery and performance space.

Renderings released this morning show clean, contemporary spaces that take advantage of the development’s high ceilings. (They also show a concentration of people of color in the MoCADA gallery but not elsewhere.) Building out the spaces has begun, New York City Economic Development Corporation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs said today.