How Big Is Domino? Very Big
UPDATE: The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that Community Board 1 Land Use Committee voted against the project at its meeting last night; both Land Use and CB1 Board votes are just advisory and cannot block the project on their own. Details here. At the beginning of the year, City Planning certified the New Domino for…
UPDATE: The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that Community Board 1 Land Use Committee voted against the project at its meeting last night; both Land Use and CB1 Board votes are just advisory and cannot block the project on their own. Details here.
At the beginning of the year, City Planning certified the New Domino for the ULURP process. To get ready for the first stop on the traveling road show, blogger and Community Board 1 member Brooklyn 11211 has been taking a close look at the Environmental Impact Statement that developer CPC was required to file as part of its ULURP application. (The project is required to go through ULURP because the developer is seeking a rezoning.) It’s a long post and well worth reading in its entirety but here are a few stats, some generally known and others we haven’t seen before:
– Total Square Feet: 2,800,000
– Residential Square Feet: 2,400,000
– Retail Square Feet: 127,000
– Square Feet Allowed by 2005 Zoning: 2,200,000
– Average Unit Size: 1,000 square feet
– Total Residential Units: 2,200 (per developer; 11211 thinks more)
– Number of Affordable Units: 660
– Acres of Public Open Space: 4
– Number of Parking Spaces: 1,694 (153 more than as of right)
– Number of Bicycle Parking Spaces: 456 (1,241 less than as of right)
The most important bit of analysis, in our opinion, comes at the end of the post on the topic of transportation: Hundreds of extra riders are expected to head towards the L train on Bedford and North 7th and the new residents are predicted to have a “significant adverse impact” on the J/M/Z stop at Marcy Avenue. As he points out, though, short of shuttle buses and water taxis, there ain’t a heck of a lot the developer can do to improve the transit situation.
Domino By The Numbers [Brooklyn 11211]
City Planning Certifies Domino Sugar Factory for ULURP [Brownstoner]
New Landscape Renderings on ‘New Domino’ Site [Brownstoner]
Inside the LPC Meeting About Domino: New Plan OK’d [Brownstoner]
LPC Still Not Buying Domino Plan [Brownstoner]
New Domino Plans Falter at LPC Hearing [Brownstoner]
More Domino Plans [Brownstoner]
Domino Sugar Factory Proposed Addition Revealed [Brownstoner]
BREAKING! LPC Approves Historic Designation for Domino [Brownstoner]
CPC Shows and Tells Its Plans for Domino [Brownstoner] GMAP
Plans for ‘New Domino’ Released by City Planning [Brownstoner]
can anyone point me to a site map of the development? seems odd that i couldn’t find one on the official web site…
Make developers contribute to infrastructure. THe MTA is dying for money (we have to bankroll Ratner, you know). There is absolutely no intelligent, innovative thinking at City Planning. No one seems to be looking at the impact of such development in the long run. And no one is even looking at the mistakes we made when mega apartment projects were built. Nothing like not learning from our mistakes.
It should read:
1540 units of unaffordable housing
7 acres of private space
510,000 square feet of parking
How’s it sound now?
“there ain’t a heck of a lot the developer can do to improve the transit situation.”
How about not developing? How much can a city hold and still function without completely ruining the quality of life? Especially one with a finite amount of space.
Why does a 2200-unit building in a transit-rich area where car ownership rates are well below city average need 1694 parking spots?
Ok I need a geography lesson
but does the Domino plant area strech into Red Hook/Columbia Street district?
no
“I think the ‘impact’ is at the stations themselves – getting through turnstiles, stairways, etc. There’s probably enough capacity on the trains, assuming you can make it down onto the platform.”
True – and cant see the MTA doing anything to rectify the situation until things reach the level of awful of the 6 train in manhattan.
Ok I need a geography lesson
but does the Domino plant area strech into Red Hook/Columbia Street district?
rob: Why would that be a lie? It’s generally not financially feasible to build rental buildings like this without an affordable housing subsidy. The problem now is the HDC and the HFA have limited funds.
Anyway, I really don’t see what the problem is. The waterfront was rezoned years ago, and the density of this project is really not that high considering how huge the site is. Seriously – if an FAR of 4.0 is too high, what is reasonable?