Red Hook's Revere Sugar Site Could Become This Mega-Development
The long-abandoned Revere Sugar Factory at 280 Richards Street in Red Hook bit the dust nine years ago, but Thor Equities still hopes to redevelop it into a huge mixed-use complex with retail, parking and apartments. Magnusson Architecture and Planning put together a feasibility study with renderings for a 1,700,000-square-foot project on the waterfront site, which would rival Lightstone’s 700-unit…
The long-abandoned Revere Sugar Factory at 280 Richards Street in Red Hook bit the dust nine years ago, but Thor Equities still hopes to redevelop it into a huge mixed-use complex with retail, parking and apartments. Magnusson Architecture and Planning put together a feasibility study with renderings for a 1,700,000-square-foot project on the waterfront site, which would rival Lightstone’s 700-unit project on the Gowanus Canal or Two Trees’ redevelopment of the Domino Sugar plant in Williamsburg.
The plan calls for six 12-story residential towers with 900 apartments, which would surround a raised, landscaped roof deck. A six-story base would house 250,000 square feet of retail and 400,000 square feet of parking, as well as a publicly accessible, landscaped waterfront park. 6sqft spotted the renderings, one of which we published in 2008. MAP first created the study and renderings way back in 2007, which explains why they don’t mention any kind of flood protection. Click through to see more renderings.
Massive Mixed-Use Development at Red Hook’s Revere Sugar Factory Site [6sqft]
Revere Sugar Refinery Coverage [Brownstoner]
Renderings by Magnusson Archictecture and Planning
Also, aside from the lack of public transportation problem, Red Hook is a major flood zone.
This is a super old rendering indeed. Those boats haven’t been in the drydock for years. Ikea is there now.
Whole thing is sad indeed. I trust this is simply a feasibility study for a round of financing…?
Looks like every other building on the architects portfolio page! Yikes.
Yep.