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
i would love to see an improved skyline in downtown brooklyn, personally. i say bring em on.
not everywhere, of course but this is what downtowns are for!!!
Its downtown Brooklyn people. Who cares about the height.
my bad…habit..thanks for the correction…Clinton Hill.
Clinton Hills is becoming the new Clinton Hill, it seems.
The devil in all this is the fact that this area has a hub of public transportation that is (on half the lines) ONE STOP from manhattan and includes every subway line and the LIRR. It’s also minutes of a lovely walk over two bridges. How can this NOT become an overpopulated extention of manhattan? The only thing that had been stopping this from happening sooner was that the subway lines over the bridges were under construction until a couple of years ago.
Are there any zoning authorities on this site? I am wondering the same thing: how do you go from several stories (Long Island University, Metrotch etc) to 36 stories? I’m not saying it’s illegal, just wondering if there is ANY due process that these developers have to go through, or can they just decide how tall they want their buildings to be, and just go for it?
At least the guys over at Oro placed their affordable housing component nearby in Clinton Hills, not all the way over in under-served East New York far away from the luxury site and accessible transportation.
12;28, I reserve the right to ask a question about anything I want, uninformed or not. Since you know so much, why don’t you just inform me, instead of acting like someone passed wind in your face?
12:28 PM, oh I forgot, we live in a feudal society and not in a democracy.
How does the zoning allow a 45 story building? That’s huge. Where I live is 50 feet max. How did he get to 45.
Believe me there will be a real estate crash at some point and the scum developers will crawl back in there holes. – Then they will be looking for the city to bail them out probably.