March 22, 2012 / Brooklyn news / Downtown / The Downtown plan
Downtown City Point
Tower power! Flatbush Avenue's got two more on the way
Photo by Moses Jefferson
FIRST LOOK: This rendering shows the gigantic residential tower, center, plus a shorter skyscraper that developers are planning for the site of the demolished Albee Square Mall on Flatbush Avenue Extension between Dekalb Avenue and Willoughby Street Downtown.By Kate Briquelet
The Brooklyn Paper
Here it is — Brooklyn’s tallest building!
Developers showed off this rendering of the skyscrapers planned for the former Albee Square Mall — the long-stalled Downtown City Point retail and residential complex on Flatbush Avenue Extension between Willoughby Street and DeKalb Avenue.
The mock-ups, which were presented to Community Board 2 earlier today, showed two gargantuan skyscrapers on Flatbush.
The plan needs the approval of the city before it can move forward.
The two towers — the taller of which could rise to 65 stories or more — would be completed in 2015 and 2016, according to Paul Travis, of Washington Square Partners, which is part of the team of developers behind the plan.
City Point’s first building at Albee Square — the City Point mall — is almost complete and slated to open in June with 50,000 square feet of retail.
Check back for more tomorrow on this breaking story. Reach Kate Briquelet at
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