Development Watch: Son of Oro, All 40 Stories Of It
Construction workers at the Oro Condominiums recenty lost their parking spaces when ground was broken on the 40-story tower’s younger sibling at 311 Gold Street in Downtown Brooklyn. While the 309-unit Oro is all condos, the new project across the street may include rentals, according to Ron Hershco of developer United Homes. While the residential…
Construction workers at the Oro Condominiums recenty lost their parking spaces when ground was broken on the 40-story tower’s younger sibling at 311 Gold Street in Downtown Brooklyn. While the 309-unit Oro is all condos, the new project across the street may include rentals, according to Ron Hershco of developer United Homes. While the residential mix may still be up in the air, one major question mark hanging over the project was removed at the end of June when the City Council approved the transfer of 75,000 square feet of air rights (the exact price hasn’t been determined yet, but it’s expected to be in the neighborhood of $9 million) from the adjacent police station as well as a negative easement that would restrict the city’s ability to build within 60 feet of the development above the second floor; as part of the air-rights deal, United Homes also agreed to 13 on-site affordable units (in addition to the 9 units of off-site housing it had already signed up for). As a result, the project size increased from the as-of-right 35 floors to 40 floors, the highest allowed under the area’s zoning. The last piece of the puzzle: To satisfy Tish James’ concerns that the project wasn’t including enough truly affordable housing (a matter she threatened to kill the 5-story addition over), a deal was struck, we hear, whereby HPD would build another 20 affordable units in her district.
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Excuse me, hi!, but within whatever limits there are, don’t the architect and developer then proceed to design a building that hopefully is interesting and well built? They can build 400′, they can build 250′ or 300′. How does that make 7 new towers the same height, and what does Tish James have to do with that? She’s not limiting their ability to be creative or even profitable. Your remarks make no sense whatsoever.
Talk about imbecilic comments. Why don’t you blame her for the heat wave and global warming too, while you’re at it?
Tish James sucks because she made a 400 foot height limit (she wanted 250 actually) and as a result every new tower is 40 stories. That’s about 7 new towers exactly the same size and it’s going to make the skyline look like shit. You need towers of varying heights, and since there’s already FAR restrictions whats the point of height limits?
Imbecile
i think that oro is great, and am in favor of more and more high rise construction (resi and commercial) along flatbush ext – this is one of the few places in bk where such construction makes sense.
build em high and build em often!!!
I’ve walked past it many times and I don’t like it. The only site less attractive is a nearby construction on Fulton but that yellow brick is ugly. I wouldn’t live there.
also, anyone care to comment on the oro proper?
any buyer/lover/hater?
Please Anon 12:42, enlighten us as to how exactly you could do a better job.
hey, at least she’sstuck to her guns as an advocate for affordable housing and opponent of AY
why is that?
Same here.