Downtown is Brooklyn's New Hot Spot
The fastest growing part of Brooklyn is not Park Slope, Williamsburg, or Brooklyn Heights. It’s Downtown Brooklyn, according to the Post. Ten years ago, only 3,270 people lived in the 60 block area, today there are more than 9,000 people. Since 2007, 28 condo and rental projects have been built, with 30 others stalled by…
The fastest growing part of Brooklyn is not Park Slope, Williamsburg, or Brooklyn Heights. It’s Downtown Brooklyn, according to the Post. Ten years ago, only 3,270 people lived in the 60 block area, today there are more than 9,000 people. Since 2007, 28 condo and rental projects have been built, with 30 others stalled by the economy. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership estimates over 16,000 people by year’s end, as projects like Brooklyn Gold, and others, near completion. The Partnership’s Joe Chan estimates much more growth by 2012, and cites the building of Bruce Ratner’s Barclay’s Arena to boost the area even more. The impact of the arena will be historic. It is a gamechanger for Downtown and the borough.
Brooklyn’s Hot Spot [NY Post]
@ rob and daveinbedstuy: I moved into Bklyn Gold to be specific, so Brooklyn Fare is about a 12 min walk… which is about the same as the Gristedes. For the three new buildings (Bklyn Gold, Oro and Avalon) all within a block of each other, as well as the Whitman Ingersoll Houses which are right there as well as the Farragut Houses further down Gold Street, there’s actually a good amount of people who could benefit from a grocery store that’s less than a ten minute walk away, etc.
I hate to say it but the retailing pressure of people who can afford to rent $2000 1brs and 600k 2brs (now with the help of HUD) will ensure that the severely abused and underused fulton shopping district gets more than pawn brokers, grey market cell phone and electronics peddlers, and sneaker joints the next few years – Apple store soon perhaps? Welcome to Brooklyn’s future version of Union Square.
I’m sorry….I thought my point was crystal clear. I would much rather have Oro, Avalon and Toren in the hood, and all that they bring, than the “night of the living dead” zombies that used to hang out on that corner five years ago.
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a disgusting Kennedy Fried Chicken, two check cashing joint and a scummy car wash…in other words crack head central
what’s your point? im serious actually
*rob*
You people are a bunch of clowns…to suggest that the development of Downtown Brooklyn is anything but good is absofuckinglutely ridiculous. For example, five years ago the very footprint of the picture above (where Oro, Toren and Avalon now sit) was a disgusting Kennedy Fried Chicken, two check cashing joint and a scummy car wash…in other words crack head central (believe me, I literally live right around the corner from there in University Towers)
robotpony…would brooklyn Fare be closer to you?? It’s on the corner of Hoyt & Schermerhorn. Not a full service grocery but good selection and a bit more “premium.”
uh isnt there a giant pathmark at the atlantic terminal mall?
*rob*
I am one of the people who recently moved into one of the new buildings. I don’t need the neighborhood to wholly transform, but I would welcome some new stores (particularly grocery stores) to serve the influx of new residents. Currently I do my grocery shopping at the Gristedes on Henry Street and it’s a bit of a trek. It’s long been recognized that the residents who do live downtown have been underserved in terms of those sorts of stores, and hopefully the new influx of tenants will bring those sorts of amenities that have previously been lacking.
Slopey, I think I’ll leave that for management. I’m just a day worker.