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.
No 11:42 – The developer for knowingly building on a contaminated site, the city for issuing permits and alowing the site to be built, and the State for not properly cleaning up the site before construction began.
“They are 11:36 – They just havent found a culpable party to pin it on yet. At least in this case it will be a no-brainer for them.”
Who, the 19th century gas manufacturing company?
Will the development include any 4-story, 25-foot wide, detail-rich brownstones, close the park, at reasonable prices?
They are 11:36 – They just havent found a culpable party to pin it on yet. At least in this case it will be a no-brainer for them.
I agree 11:20… As downtown becomes HOT This area is going to be the place to live…
Two words: Love Canal.
Flood Insurance? I think Cyclops insurance may be more in order.
Lawyers will be salivating to see this thing built, because all it will take is 1 person to come down with cancer, and they will pounce.
We already are…
11:11 — what makes you think CG wants to be bridged with park slope — we kinda’ like our DMZ…