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https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...arclays-center

Developers Eye Two Sites for Office Towers Around Barclays Center





The developers of the Pacific Park complex, formerly Atlantic Yards, are eyeing two new locations to build office towers within the 22-acre development, including a possible 1.5-million-square-foot building revealed last week.

Representatives of the developer, Greenland Forest City Partners, shared a rough sketch of the plan with residents at a public meeting Wednesday, focusing on two sites surrounding the Barclays Center: 580 Atlantic Ave., currently occupied by Modell’s and P.C. Richard & Son, and a lot at the southwest corner of Atlantic and Sixth avenues directly behind the arena known as B4.

Currently, usage of the B4 site is limited to residential and “some retail” by a state-approved project plan, said GFCP spokeswoman Ashley Cotton. But the company is hoping the state will allow office space to be built there by shifting commercial rights — previously reserved for another Pacific Park building, 461 Dean St. on Flatbush Avenue — to the Atlantic Avenue site.

The B4 building would act as a bookend, she said, to a much larger building GFCP is planning to build nearby. That tower, at 580 Atlantic Ave., or “Site 5,” would use up to 1.1 million square feet of air rights currently controlled by the developers in front of the Barclays Center — where the subway station, plaza and distinctive “oculus” feature on the arena are now located — combined with 439,000 buildable square feet currently allowed on Site 5.

The plan for the smaller tower has been dropped, it will remain a residential tower...



https://ny.curbed.com/2018/1/16/1689...ce-development

Developer ditches plans to swap Pacific Park residential building for office space
Greenland USA will stick to the original plan instead





By Ameena Walker
Jan 16, 2018

Developers Greenland USA are scrapping plans to convert one of the sites at Pacific Park from a residential building to an office tower.

The Real Deal reports that the site east of the Barclays Center between Atlantic and Sixth avenues, also known as B4, will remain residential after developers decided that it was “better suited” for the original plan. In 2016, Greenland USA revealed that they would aim to utilize the site for commercial use instead of residential with affordable housing. The intent was to transfer rights from the B2 site, where a residential building rose at 461 Dean Street instead of a commercial development, to the B4 site. However, Greenland USA never formally requested permission from the Empire State Development Corporation.

Construction on site B4 is expected to break ground some time in 2019. It remains to be seen whether the plan is still to offer a mix of rentals and condos within the building.