Ratner: 'Fort Greene, I've Got You Surrounded'
Man, it’s getting hard to keep up with all the towers that are sprouting up in Downtown Brooklyn. Yesterday, Curbed ran some renderings of Bruce Ratner’s latest project at 80 Dekalb Avenue aka 625 Fulton Street. The 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed silver scraper will have 369 apartments spread out over 335,187 square feet. As we saw…
Man, it’s getting hard to keep up with all the towers that are sprouting up in Downtown Brooklyn. Yesterday, Curbed ran some renderings of Bruce Ratner’s latest project at 80 Dekalb Avenue aka 625 Fulton Street. The 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed silver scraper will have 369 apartments spread out over 335,187 square feet. As we saw when we swung by at the end of the day, demolition of the existing three- and four-story building that runs most of the way towards Fulton from Dekalb is in full swing. Curbed reported that the property is listed as a rental on the Kondylis site, but we bet nothing’s set in stone just yet. Anyone know if this has an affordable housing component? For political reasons alone we suspect it will.
Kondylis + Ratner on DeKalb Avenue [Curbed] GMAP P*Shark DOB
A real estate crash would solve most of these problems. Let them sit with empty units for a few years. It would serve them right.
A real estate crash would solve most of these problems. Let them sit with empty units for a few years. It would serve them right.
Oh the crazy public. Remember developers the public is who is going to potentially live in your buildings. And if you ignore the needs of the residents in the existing communities than the potential future residents should consider themselves fully warned that you couldn’t care less who you harm. And that means that their future neighborhood will be worse for the new building. Either you with your lame attitude will hire cheap contractors or lax, lazy engineers or something. And then you can expect lawsuits. So buyer beware. Stay aware from these jerks who have no interest in the communities in which they build.
2:47, the answer to 9:51’s question is that two 500-seat high schools are planned for the old Family Court building at Johnson and Adams, and the Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo neighborhood associations are pushing for a zoned middle school.
3:08, the Department of Buildings review occurs when the plans are filed. (See numerous other threads on this blog for people’s opinions on the quality of the review.) It is not open to the public; it is an agency determination. However, it is subject to audit. (See numerous other threads making reference to Scarano … and others, so not to pick on just one architect.)
And, as I was walking around downtown this afternoon and saw the Oro in the distance, I had the same reaction as 2:38 … ‘wow, a lot of the these buildings are going to have great views of the other buildings.’
Developer’s should pay special assessments then because this height and bulk and number of units are ridiculous. The infrastructure is not in place for this many new units in this district. The developers should have to kick in to pay for schools and for transportation upgrades to deal with the traffic. And what’s the story about the parking. How many spots do they have to build on this site?
I have view from clinton hill. I’m not specifically saying that this building will block the view, but the continued new development could. Regardless, it was a joke. Lighten up Francis. I’ll think I’ll just continue to read these forums rather than posting.
sorry – no public review for an as-of-right project. you may think that is a feudal society but that is how things get built; when there are laws created by your elected officials and then professionals interpret them and the public make shit up and complain all of the time.
agreed that there’s no way this could block a view of statue of liberty, not to mention it hasn’t been built yet, so how would you know?
lordy, some of the posters here…have you even ever BEEN to brooklyn???
I have a view from Clinton Hill