Development Watch: Enrique Norten 'Burg Site Goes to Pot
The massive development site at North 10th and Roebling in Williamsburg is seeing plenty of green—in the form of the weeds that’ve overtaken the property while it’s been sitting fallow for the past several months. In fact, conditions at 33 Roebling apparently haven’t changed much since Gowanus Lounge checked in on it in early June…
The massive development site at North 10th and Roebling in Williamsburg is seeing plenty of green—in the form of the weeds that’ve overtaken the property while it’s been sitting fallow for the past several months. In fact, conditions at 33 Roebling apparently haven’t changed much since Gowanus Lounge checked in on it in early June and reported that a section of fence had gone down, leaving the entire rubble-strewn site exposed. That fence? Still down. Blah, blah, you’ve heard it all before: shoddy workmanship, lax DOB oversight. What’s interesting about this maybe-project is that Edge-y Enrique Norten’s TEN Arquitectos has signed on to helm whatever’s in the works for this space, according to DOB filings. Anyone seen renderings or got some deets on this one?
Construction Site du Jour: 33 Roebling [Gowanus Lounge] GMAP DOB
You guys must be lazy, DOB issued violations for the fence in June. Want ust to go back? Make another complaint.
I could be wrong, but I thought that the Edge was turned over to Stephen Jacobs, no longer Norten. Of course all through the rezoning the developer and city planning talked about the international architects being drawn by Williamsburg’s new frontier, and particularly touted Norten. Oh well, I guess Karl Fischer counts as international.
As for the pond, you can see why here: http://www.brooklyn11211.com/archive/2007/03/a_creek_runs_th.html
elderly people in williamsburg have often recounted stories to me of the times when they went swimming in a large pond where this lot is.
no doubt any large construction project on this site will need to contend with water under the ground there.