Borough Parkers Not Digging Rezoning App
A property that’s at the center of a development debate in Borough Park recently traded hands for $19.4 million, according to public records. The city is currently considering an application to rezone 886 Dahill Road—where an abandoned warehouse stands—to allow for the construction of a 12-story mixed-use property that includes 174 apartments, five townhouses and…
A property that’s at the center of a development debate in Borough Park recently traded hands for $19.4 million, according to public records. The city is currently considering an application to rezone 886 Dahill Road—where an abandoned warehouse stands—to allow for the construction of a 12-story mixed-use property that includes 174 apartments, five townhouses and 70,000 square feet of retail space. An LLC headed by Martin Wydra (who developed Williamsburg condos like the Gretsch) bought the property from an LLC that named Eli Dweck as its managing member. According to a Times article published last year, Mendel Brach (of Finger Building fame) was one of Dweck’s partners and signed the deed for 886 Dahill, shelling out $8 million for the 64,000-square-foot lot in 2003. Whoever the parcel’s owners are, however, there may be trouble ahead for the planned redevelopment: Last month Community Board 12 voted against the rezoning proposal, saying its retail component would attract too much traffic. It’s very unusual that our community agrees on any issue whatsoever, said a CB 12 member quoted in Flatbush Life. Everybody in this community agreed that this project does not serve the needs of this community. A spokesperson for the Dept. of City Planning told us the rezoning proposal is in ULURP and is being considered by Marty Markowitz’s office.
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I go through there all the time and the whole too much traffic nonsense is just overblown. Outside of a couple of hours in the afternoon, there is hardly that many cars there.
This site is literally a few feet away from the subway station, so there is no better place to put units here and that place could use some more pedestrian activity as most of McDonald Ave. is void of any street life.
These people are just more NIMBYism: you can’t build here, too much traffic, too much noise, too dangerous, too many people, blah, blah, blah…
It’s time we make room for smart growth and this is it.
My girlfriend lives one block from here. That intersection has constant gridlock because of a Shoprite right next to his warehouse and a fruit market. There is also a yeshiva, elementary school and a high school near by as well, lots of school buses and horn honking. The area could use extra housing and extra commercial options but at that spot it would be total overload.