Money Starting to Flow to Fulton Street
A double-shot of cash injections announced this week means that things may be looking up for Fulton Street. Next month, the City Council will provide more than a million dollars in funding to two recently-created Business Improvement Districts on Fulton Street stretching from Flatbush to Nostrand Avenue. The Central Fulton Street BID (which will also…
A double-shot of cash injections announced this week means that things may be looking up for Fulton Street. Next month, the City Council will provide more than a million dollars in funding to two recently-created Business Improvement Districts on Fulton Street stretching from Flatbush to Nostrand Avenue. The Central Fulton Street BID (which will also be known as the FAB Alliance) is getting $400,000 in funding via Council Member Letitia James while the Bed-Stuy Gateway is receiving $675,000 for its first year in operations. Both BIDs are expected to focus on design and other quality-of-life issues like safety, lighting, trees and street furniture. We want to create an aesthetically sound district, Bed-Stuy Gateway’s chairman, Edmon Braithwaite told Crain’s. With a cleaner shopping district, we will be able to attract merchants and increase business. The Crain’s article also mentions two affordable housing projects being done in partnership between BRP and Goldman Sachs that together should bring 183 units of housing as well as additional retail space to Fulton Street. All good!
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I don’t want to seem debbie downer, but I’m feeling very skeptical about the possibility for change. I’ve lived here for almost 5 years and there has been no change on fulton. I think as long as you have multiple methadone clinics (one is fine) and the extended community doesn’t care, there’s no chance for a great retail mix. add to that the drug trade that shows no signs of abating…
we also only have the c train, where fort greene is closer to more subways. their stretch of fulton has a better mix of old school and new. we have endless nail salons, bodegas, and laundromats…
If I were a retailer, I’m not sure I would take the risk…
“Perhaps it can be more like Fifth Avenue in the Slope?”
was just going to say the same thing. a great model for fulton.
Perhaps it can be more like Fifth Avenue in the Slope? I was just remarking how much nicer it is than Seventh. i keep saying (much like BHO I have great faith in the power of repetition) that once the strip livens up with legitimate and diverse businesses the other stuff won’t bother me so much. [And kudos that we are all just ignoring Rob – oops I blew it!]
“Fulton will never be 7th Ave”-for sure, and thankfully.
I’m looking forward to improvements on Fulton, as well, especially between Franklin and Utica. There are many successful businesses there now, and cleaning up the strip will bring more, and that will mean more variety, some new kinds of retail, and hopefully, some nice eat-in restaurants and cafe’s. Fulton will never be 7th Ave, but that is as it should be. Improvements benefit everyone.
I know nothing except it’s a super deep building and when I asked a worker what was going in there, he said “a restaurant and bar” and someone called to him to correct him from inside… then he said “I mean, a restaurant.”
Not supposed to tell the neighbors about the bar part yet, I suppose.
Lothar–hadn’t noticed the bar restaurant by the vet. Do you know anything about it?
Great news! I feel like Fulton’s starting to step up to the plate. There’s a new restaurant/bar going in next to the Vet Across From The Met, and that hilariously run down building with the Stevie Wonder quote on it between Waverly and Clinton is finally getting worked on too.
As for the meth clinic clients, they seem to have discovered the new bodega at the corner of Cambridge Place and built a nest on its cozy sidewalk.
methadone maintenance programs are one giant FAIL! why do they still exist? heroin only costs like 5 bux a bag now. i know they get their methadone for free, but still.. just go out and do the real thing and support your local dealers.
i say that because i find the methadone freaks where i work in soho to be grody. there’s a clicic on spring and layfayette and they all congregate near the coffee truck i go to screaming and fighting with each other. mostly they are just VERY unpleasant to look at. they dont bother anyone though. i just wish they’d go away, they sell their methadone to each other anyway. stupid government run program paid for by our taxes. let them just do the real thing, it’s cheap enough.
*rob*