A Look at L&M's Big Plans for Columbia Street
A couple of weeks ago L&M Equities gave its first public presentation about its proposal to build more than 170 units of housing on three sites near Columbia and Warren streets. The biggest building L&M’s planning would be 80-feet tall, require a two-block zoning change, include around 40 affordable housing units, and rise on what…
A couple of weeks ago L&M Equities gave its first public presentation about its proposal to build more than 170 units of housing on three sites near Columbia and Warren streets. The biggest building L&M’s planning would be 80-feet tall, require a two-block zoning change, include around 40 affordable housing units, and rise on what is now city-owned land (104-116 Warren Street). (The other two sites in the plan are 75 Columbia Street and 86 Congress Street.) Many local residents are wary of the scale L&M’s proposing. A person who lives on Warren Street, for example, told the Carroll Gardens Courier that the 80-foot height is so high up—it’s not part of the community. Think most people who live around Columbia Street feel the same way?
Zoning Change Opposed [Carroll Gardens Courier] GMAP
Funny, I’m not finding any historical data on the MTA website.
You don’t get better views than the Columbia Street Waterfront.
I heard the developers wanted to build one story affordable housing but the people of Cobble Hill said build up and be free!
The new development would be zoned for PS 29 which is overcrowded.
Sheesh, developers are really chomping at the bit to build here.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, that corner brick building on Congress and Hicks used to be a factory that made Christmas ornaments. For years, a tubby Santa sat on the roof slowly listing left as the grime of the BQE collected on his red suit. It lent an air of perverse whimsy to what is actually a pretty desolate stretch–see broken glass from smashed car windows and piles of dog poop nobody bothers to clean up.
There is a very recently constructed 7 story building a block south of this development
facing BQE (all market rate BTW) and I would guess that several bdlgs on TIffany 2 blocks south are probably pretty close to 80 ft also.
I think bogus argument against the project.
The very high end Arches condo also faces the BQE from other side – so I wouldnt make issue with the subsidized units are in the bldg along Hicks.
Hope the design is better than all the 80’s
(subsidized) development nearby.
These buildings, as pictured, are not quite lovely. And give me a break, not everything over 50 years old has historical significance.
I heard the developer wanted to put up a really nice row of brick townhouses and that the neighbors decided they’d rather a big building that would wrap around the corner instead of the townhouses and a larger building on one lot. Seems crazy to me. I guess big is better in Carroll Gardens with the NIMBYs.