Not Just BJs for Red Hook, But a Whole Mall
If there was any question left about the suburbanization of Brooklyn (see Atlantic Center, IKEA, Costco), it will be answered by the creation of a Red Hook mall. Turns out, developer Joe Sitt of Thor Equities doesn’t want to just bring BJ’s to the waterfront but a whole six-story shopping center. Well, at least the…
If there was any question left about the suburbanization of Brooklyn (see Atlantic Center, IKEA, Costco), it will be answered by the creation of a Red Hook mall. Turns out, developer Joe Sitt of Thor Equities doesn’t want to just bring BJ’s to the waterfront but a whole six-story shopping center. Well, at least the vision is mixed-use and includes some adaptive reuse, too. The Brooklyn Paper says Thor wants “to renovate a historic warehouse on the former Revere sugar refinery; erect several new buildings for shopping, parking and housing; and create a 40-feet-wide public esplanade by 2011 along the water’s edge of the Beard Street property next door to the recently opened IKEA.” How do these developers — see Thor, Ratner, even Toll Brothers — have so much power over such historic and important Brooklyn sites, especially the waterfronts? (Also, yes, the Brooklyn Paper continues with the double entendre headlines.)
Hookers to Get BJs in Mall [The Brooklyn Paper]
Thor’s Red Hook Plans Come Into Sharper Focus [Curbed]
Red Hook Ikea. Photo by masck.
Speaking of living over Fairways, I would love to see what one of those apartments looks like. We’ve never had one as condo of the day. With those huge windows and first class views, I would imagine they are quite nice. So nice they don’t ever get re-sold.
Any listings out there I could look at, just to satisfy my curiousity?
great big pieces of NY waterfront have been abandoned or turned in to a ghetto.
someone has to pay real money to change this. and, they have to be able to pay for it.
if you don’t like stores, then don’t shop there, but i don’t think you can control it with regulation. just will end up with more blight.
left hook…I’m with you.
They couldn’t figure out how to Dumbofy it, so they’re going to turn it into NJ’s RTE 17.
combustiblegirl, I’m not advocating residential development, but the tugboats don’t seem to bother the people living over Fairways.
I can’t believe we cannot think of anything better to do with our precious waterfront than give it over to big-box stores. The only good reason that Ikea should have been allowed on the waterfront was if they shipped their furniture directly to their door, but instead they truck all their stuff in from Jersey. There are plenty of other places to put big-box stores that are not on the waterfront of New York Harbor. But it seems that Joe Sitt is hell bent on turning as much of the Brooklyn waterfront as possible into his schlock mall developments.
I’m wondering if I was the only one with a dirty enough mind to misread the meaning of “BJs for Red Hook” 😉
Someone call the Grammar Police, there’s an apostrophe missing from the headline.
Put a roof over all of red hook and then get every american chain there. By the way, what does BJ stand for?
combustible, are you sure about those tug companies being in Red Hook? Or do the tugs just rest nearby? AFAIK the big tug companies either are or were on Richmand Terrace in SI. I just did a quick check on Moran, McAllister, Morania, and Bouchard. Not that I’m a fan of WalMart, but I bet the residents of Red Hook houses would be.
Great, let’s convert NYC waterfront to resemble middle f*cking America. When is Walmart opening in Red Hook? Maybe we can start busing people in from the Suburbs so they can shop in our Mall wasteland.
What a waste of prime real estate. They’re missing the ball on this one big time.