Behold 'Sunset Marketplace,' Time Equities' S. Park Plan
What you see above are renderings for the massive development project Time Equities has on tap for Sunset Park. The Greenberg Farrow-designed shopping center, which is being dubbed “Sunset Marketplace,” will be part of Time Equities’ redevelopment of two square blocks (30th to 32nd streets) between 3rd Avenue and the water. New construction on the…
What you see above are renderings for the massive development project Time Equities has on tap for Sunset Park. The Greenberg Farrow-designed shopping center, which is being dubbed “Sunset Marketplace,” will be part of Time Equities’ redevelopment of two square blocks (30th to 32nd streets) between 3rd Avenue and the water. New construction on the site will total 790,000 square feet, according to Greenberg Farrow’s website, including a large parking garage. The retail building will rise next to Federal #2, an huge industrial structure that Time Equities will redevelop for light industry and commercial tenants (there will probably also be some retail on Federal #2’s ground floors). The EDC selected Time Equities and the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation for the project last May. According to Philip Gesue, Time Equities’ project director for acquisitions and development, the proposal is now in pre-application review with City Planning and should enter ULURP soon.
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Ratner has not scaled back AY, only delayed construction. You people can’t understand the difference.
this project will never happen. Even that dirtbag Ratner has scaled back his nightmare atlantic yards because of the economy.
Do you seriously think in THIS economy a developer will invest in an area that is NOT near an affluent neighborhood, NOT near good public transportation ? At least one can say the atlantic yards was a better development location because it is near an affluent neighborhood (Park Slope) and sits on top of the biggest transportation hub in Brooklyn.
The view from under the Gowanus looking toward the buildings was done by someone on crack. Under the Gowanus is dark and disgusting. It’s EXACTLY the reason why that part of the neighborhood degraded so much, because it is cut off by the Gowanus Expressway. Nothing is going to change that.
Read Jane Jacob’s Death and LIfe of American Cities. she explains how an imposing, filthy piece of infrastruction like the Gowanus expressway can bisect a neighborhood and cause it to die.
Come on, even the real estate in the way, way West Village didn’t explode until they took down a portion of the High Line running down Washington Street.
In addition to the MDC and the BQE, there’s a power generating plant at 29th and 2nd (Gowanus Generating Station). Another power plant at 23rd street too.
Now, if this type of development can push out environmental hazards like expressways and power plants, then I’m all for it.
By the way, the renderings show “Bonana Republic” and “Channel” instead of Chanel.
3:07, the EEK renderings are out of date. I asked Time Equities about them. Apparently EEK designed the plans that Time Eq submitted to the EDC in order to be selected for the project. Greenberg will be the architect of record on the new building, though.
More rendering here:
http://www.eekarchitects.com/portfolio_projects.cfm?Region=1&projectID=127173
The site is convenient to the Fed prison, the NYPD scuba unit and the storage lots for cars confiscated in crimes. Now that’s what I call one-stop-shopping!
A lot of the old piers are turned into parking lots. They aren’t structurally sound for much else, and repairing them costs a fortune.
getting people to buy scrap material for 60 bucks seems like the business model for most clothing companies.