Norten Design for BAM is Resurrected by Two Trees
Hey, remember this rendering? It bears more than a passing resemblance to the Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos design for the $135 million library that was supposed to be built in the BAM Cultural District. While those plans were scrapped last spring, the Sun is reporting that a glassy Norton building may yet rise on the lot…
Hey, remember this rendering? It bears more than a passing resemblance to the Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos design for the $135 million library that was supposed to be built in the BAM Cultural District. While those plans were scrapped last spring, the Sun is reporting that a glassy Norton building may yet rise on the lot where the library was slated to go. The new plans come via Two Trees, who want to develop a 371,000-square-foot building with 180 units of housing and 187,000 square feet of commercial space, with some of the latter set aside for community arts organizations. Two Trees would buy the site from the city for $20 million and transfer a nearby lot on Ashland Place, between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson, to BAM, which would use the property to build administrative offices and a 263-seat community and educational theater. All of this still needs city approval in order to happen.
Mixed-Use Facility Planned For Brooklyn Cultural District [NY Sun]
No Norten for BAM? [Brownstoner]
Rendering from The Sun.
10:17,10:37 nails it. Can’t wait to vote her out.
this building would be great!
The space in the Walentas tower is for BAM — more movie theatres and party space for them. This sudden announcement that space will be provided community based, diverse arts group is total b.s. in response to Tish James’ grandstanding
While this is good news, I hope that they make room for an elementary school in this space. Too many families with kids moving to the area, not enough first rate k-8 schools for all of them.
Yes, 10:27, her job is to respresent the whole community, as you say, only she does not do that. She represents the low-income brackett and ignores the rest, especially if they have moved to the area over the past five years. Her newsletter is filled with activities aimed at long-time, lower-income residents and none for the newer arrivals. Her hatred of the latter (unless they oppose AY) is palpable.
If Tish James’ constituents are primarily low income people- who do you suggest she represent? The people with money who want to move here? her job is to represent the community as a whole- which is a difficult balancing act- she may not represent your interests specifically- but she certainly is looking out for the community at large.
Tish James goes bye bye soon anyway because of term limits…
9:55, what do you expect from Tish James….she’s an idiot. Her whole existence is predicated by the continued prevalence of the low income people in neighborhood. Gentrification is her worst enemy, because that means she goes “bye-bye”. And before everybody goes, nuclear…I’m a black resident of the neighborhood and I’ve lived in University Towers since ’94…I’ve seen the whole cycle…just calling it like it is..
Uh – and this sentence from the article seems to indicate that the corner of Ashland and Lafayette will be affordable housing.
“In other changes in the development plans, Theatre for a New Audience has agreed to shift its building to a mid-block site from the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place in order to allow the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to use the site for affordable housing.”