Latest BBP Brouhaha: A Supermarket in the Park
The most recent controversy over Brooklyn Bridge Park has to do with plans to put a grocery store in the base of the public-private development’s anchoring condo, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, according to an article in this week’s Brooklyn Paper. Judy Stanton, the executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, says it’s “not the most…
The most recent controversy over Brooklyn Bridge Park has to do with plans to put a grocery store in the base of the public-private development’s anchoring condo, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, according to an article in this week’s Brooklyn Paper. Judy Stanton, the executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, says it’s “not the most complimentary business for the park,” while Ken Baer, chair of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club, argues that “all the land within the park should be devoted to recreational space.” One Brooklyn Bridge Park’s developer says he wants to put a (what else?) high-end market into the building as well as two restaurants and smaller shops. The taxes collected from the condo’s retail would help cover the park’s maintenance costs. Do you like the idea of a high-end market here?
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I have a feeling 3:43 doesn’t get the “vision thing”.
Anything down there will do great, particualry a food market for those “fat asses” who buy and eat food.
There really must be more than 100 of us.
3:34 great to hear great ideas like yours. now my partners and I will open a nice donut place, a watering hole, bistro or a bowling alley on Furman. there’s not much going in your neck of the woods, but develop it can be and more people will come and enjoy BH. prime example is the River’s Cafe, it’s a good thing.
1:34 – this is 1:21 here. Your comments are apprropriate for the 100 people that live in your area. Grocery stores work best when they are surrounded by people, not by a park and water. Think about it. You need a deli so you can take your fat ass to you presumptive fool.
One BBP (aka 360 Furman) is a private sector development project. So even if nothing else happens down there in our lifetimes due to the do-nothing public agenices, that building will soon be open for business. I think a food market there is a must, as is a liquor store, maybe a bar and grille with views of the marina. Nice.
People have to be so unimaginative to think that everything will be awful and that nothing will work. Even the old farts on Joralemon Sttreet will come to like it in the end. Something beats nothing and what is there now is a lot of nothing.
You said a ‘high-end market’ not supermarket.
It doesn’t have to be size of a Pathmark or Fairway. And probably wouldn’t be because I don’t think there is much free parking around there. But between people in that section of BHeights, people in this building and ones from Cobble Hill west of BQE – could support something.
1:21
I live a few blocks from here and it is a lot more convenient to go here than to the Key Foods & Garden of Eden on Montague or the Key Foods on Atlantic. Just because it is far from your particular house and the little hill is too much of an issue for you, don’t presume you know what’s best for the rest of the area residents that live close to here.
these are dreams of the brokers – those restaurants will only get business on warm weekends and a grocery store is too far away for walking and Fairway already has the lead on that. It will not happen.
…historically accurate lamp post.
I live in Brooklyn Heights and according to some estimates; the population of the neighborhood is around 25k and of that, there are something like 10k rent stabilized/rent controlled tenants and around 5k Jehovah Witness’s that don’t really contribute to the local neighborhoods economy like the rest of the market rate people and owners. So, in effect, the neighborhoods population is around 10k, spread out.
That’s one of many reason why BH is so dead. Yes, majority of the residents are very old. Judy cripples new business and developments. And stores are far few to be convenient. And, no, I’m not going to pay, however little, when I am already voting for my local representation. Judy and the BHA can screw themselves on the nearest lamp post.