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.
Yes, Gowanus will be worthless once AY is built and Fourth Ave. is built up because guess where that sewage is going.
Gowanus will be worthless once AY is built.
“where are all those Gen Y kids going to live in the next few years”
Maybe the other thousands of condos that are coming on the market?
I notice in the rendering that the cool silo building at Gowanus & Carroll is gone.
Interesting that Toll is going through with this perhaps they see something we don’t, like: where are all those Gen Y kids going to live in the next few years when they’re done with college, have jobs and incomes, and Mom and Dad finally kick them out?
Cancer.
“The State probably isn’t responsible for remediation. If the site is contaminated, the developer can apply for admission into the State’s brownfield cleanup program. They’ll be required to remediate the site according to strict guidelines and with the oversight of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). In return, the developer gets a liability release which prevents them from being sued (theoretically DEC could be held liable for approving the cleanup if adverse health effects ensue).”
Earth to ClintonHillBuyer and other Cheerleaders – The City and State are in a huge hole, developers, including Toll brothers, are hurting bad, the real estate market is faultering…Where exactly are any of these people going to come up with TENS or HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to do something like this?
I AM IN DEEP, DEEP PUPPYDOG LUV WITH “THE WHAT”
I realize I’m channeling The What, but I just gotta say: “Laugh my f***ing ass off!” Quite apart from the years of industrial pollution here, the city still has no plan to fix the Gowanus canal’s sewage overflow problem. Enjoy the view, suckers!