Toll Brothers' Gargantuan Gowanus Plans Revealed
HOLY COW! Gowanus Lounge has scored a tremendous scoop by unearthing the “scoping document” Toll Brothers filed with the Department of City Planning for its planned development between the Gowanus Canal, Bond Street, Carroll Street and Second Street. The firm is certainly not thinking small: Toll wants to build a 605,380-square-foot development with 577 units…
HOLY COW! Gowanus Lounge has scored a tremendous scoop by unearthing the “scoping document” Toll Brothers filed with the Department of City Planning for its planned development between the Gowanus Canal, Bond Street, Carroll Street and Second Street. The firm is certainly not thinking small: Toll wants to build a 605,380-square-foot development with 577 units of housing (130 of them affordable), 2,000 square feet of “community space,” and 2,000 square feet of retail. The buildings would be 4-12 stories tall. City Planning is going to hold a public scoping meeting on the project early next month. Toll Brothers has been looking to get a jump on the larger rezoning of Gowanus in order to move forward with the development, which it says it could complete by 2011.
The Starting Bell: Toll Brothers Reveal Gowanus Plans [Gowanus Lounge]
Toll Brothers Big Gowanus Project Revealed [Curbed]
Rendering from Gowanus Lounge.
Two words: Buy floaties.
The Gowanus needs a storm barrier. I imagine that costs a ton, since it needs to be able to open up for all that water traffic on the canal. Has anyone heard of any discussion about a hurricane or storm barrier, whatever they are called? Any chance of that or will my house go under the next big one?
2:37 best comment of all time.
Dunno, 3:48, but some day it will host the Super BOWL. Campaign to build a football stadium on the shores of the Gowanus starts…. NOW!
how is the gowanus not a superfund site?
The rendering shows a small dock on the water to the left of a kiosk or gazebo. This would be a perfect place to launch a kayak.
There may be some young photographer/artists who can process film in the canal for free. A great convenience.
I still contend that the area will not be completely revitalized in our (ok MY lifetime (I’m 53)). Sure, some development will begin, but it will be a long time before the people who can afford the units other than the affordable ones will want to live there.
Make no mistake, however. I am absolutely in favor of well planned development that improves quality of life in Brooklyn.
2:01, if you are an industrial company, you are a polluter. Maybe that’s why there aren’t any more industrial companies. Except in China.
The next Cat III hurricane that blows thru here will take care of both the pollution and the Toll Bros development. 20′ storm surge right up the gowAnus.
There’s a reason it’s a flood zone.
Another reason to sue!
Cameo by John Hodgman as Maggie’s gay neighbor who watches the kids!
Can gonorrhea climb walls or penetrate glass? Just asking.