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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 2:54 PM
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http://www.brooklyneagle.com/article...ning-nightmare

Brooklyn Broadside: Downtown Building Boom Could Be a Planning Nightmare

By Dennis Holt Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Feb. 21, 2012


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The Steiner brothers’ announcement last week of their plans to build a large apartment building in Downtown Brooklyn has prompted a review of what’s been built, what is being constructed and what is being planned.

The result is astonishing. Within a 2-square-mile area that includes the Downtown core and part of Fort Greene down to Atlantic Avenue, 7,362 new residential units will soon be going up. As we show later, many additional potential and intended units are excluded from that number. An accepted practice to get a sense of how many people might be involved is to multiply the number of housing units by 2.5. Doing that shows a total of more than 18,000 people, so it can safely be said that Downtown Brooklyn can expect an invasion of from 15,000 to 20,000 new residents in a rather small area that was never designed for such a number of people.

There is an obvious conclusion. A heck of a lot more needs to be done than to just build 50-story buildings. There is no question that the past 15 years have been the biggest building period in Brooklyn’s history, and there is no sign that it is stopping. This is different from anything in the past. With the exception of Fulton Landing and DUMBO, most of the neighborhoods that now exist in Brooklyn were built on empty land. In Downtown Brooklyn, either existing buildings were torn down to build larger ones or commercial buildings have been converted to residential use. We are creating a whole new core city. Have city planners thought through all this? Somebody better do so before we find a mess on our hands.
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Department of Buildings permits were filed in late-June for this one, making it one step closer to reality.

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754 units, 53 stories, 563 feet

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http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...ssdocnumber=01

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Additionally, demo permits for the existing building on site were filed earlier in August.
     
     
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If the top stays as designed, we could get an official height above 600 ft, making it taller than the latest 3 contenders for tallest in Brooklyn.

Here's a rough composite of where the towers would be located.





But all of these towers would likely be topped by the tallest tower of the CityPoint development...


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Quite an average design.
     
     
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Quite an average design.
Yes, though compared to its counterparts being developed in the area, I'd say this is the more interesting looking of projects.
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^ Yes, and the crown gives it more of an identity. This will be away from the pack, closer to the Williamsburgh Bank buiding, which for a long time was Brooklyn's tallest, and led to a mandate that Atlantic Yard's "Miss Brooklyn" be shorter, even if by a few feet. But those days are long gone.
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Potential huge new development on the next block...

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012...s/?stream=true

Huge Downtown Site up for Grabs





By Cate | 10/12/2012

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An unusually large building site, nearly 600,000 square feet, is up for sale in the downtown area, according to Massey Knakal Realty Services, which is marketing the property. Right now, it contains a building with shops on the street and a parking garage above, but this could be torn down to make way for a mixed-use development, according to the firm.

Current tenants at the building, which is located at 300 Livingston Street between Bond and Nevins, include Subway, IHOP, Papa John’s and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
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this one is fine and i like the comparison to mima -- so with that crown call it mima+

i just wish they wouldn't call it 'the hub' because that reminds me of the bronx neighborhood too much, which btw is also redeveloping, although much more slowly, and has recently gotten a very cool tower-like apt building of its own nearby (via verde).
     
     
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http://www.dattner.com/portfolio/the-hub/











The Hub

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680,000 sf total
42,000 sf retail

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A new amenity-rich, high-rise residential tower, The Hub, is being designed for downtown Brooklyn. The 53-story building will have 720 rental units, 20 % of which will be affordable housing. Amenity highlights include a giant landscaped outdoor terrace with sun deck, a fully-equipped fitness center with yoga studio and locker rooms, a dog run, a grilling terrace –and bike storage for every unit. Located at 333 Schermerhorn Street, the building is at the convergence of BAM Cultural District, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Prospect Heights.
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Still my favorite of the bunch - there is some character to this tower.
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This is a little dated, there are already other towers built and under construction around the site. But it points out one of the things I love most about all of the new Brooklyn developments. There are a lot of open parking lots that are being built out.

29 Flatbush is rising across Flatbush in the upper right of that shot.


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This is a little dated, there are already other towers built and under construction around the site. But it points out one of the things I love most about all of the new Brooklyn developments. There are a lot of open parking lots that are being built out.

29 Flatbush is rising across Flatbush in the upper right of that shot.


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Oh wow that's cool, I didn't know they were going to be in such close proximity to one another!
     
     
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Demo Happening For New DoBro Development, The Hub

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A post yesterday on Curbed reminded us of the huge, but recently ignored, Downtown Brooklyn development planned for 333 Schermerhorn Street called The Hub. (Developer Doug Steiner announced the 52-story, 720-unit rental development back in February.) Curbed picked up some new renderings from the blog New York YIMBY, shown above. The building should be complete in 2014, and it looks like work is gearing up to start soon. This morning construction workers were prepping for a demolition of the six-story office building on site. The adjacent lot that backs up to Flatbush Avenue is also cleared out. Finally, the DOB is processing a new building permit for 53 stories and 754 units, slightly larger than the original plans. Twenty percent of those units will be affordable. Looks like Downtown Brooklyn is getting a whole lot taller in the next few years. Also scheduled for completion in 2014: 388 Bridge Street (53 stories, 378 condo and rental units) and the Avalon development on Willoughby (596 feet tall, 861 rental units)


http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012...b/?stream=true

And right across the street from this is 29 Flatbush, as posted above!!
     
     
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So is it fair to assume that this has funding?
     
     
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So is it fair to assume that this has funding?
Considering the fact that the owners/developers also operates NYC's biggest film/production studio (Steiner Studios) I would think so.

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The site comes from a four-property package that Steiner Studios purchased in December for $30 million that consisted of a 120,000-square-foot office building at 350 Livingston St.; a vacant lot at 325 Schermerhorn St.; a medical building at 345 Schermerhorn St.; and a 20,000-square-foot parking lot at 62-64 Flatbush Ave.
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Withe everything else that's moving forward in Brooklyn, it doesn't surprise me that this one is as well. Besides, they need to get moving if they want to keep that completion date.
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http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/48572

Tower by Dattner Architects to Elevate Downtown Brooklyn





October 23, 2012
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Plans for the Hub, a 53-story tower planned for the ever-growing Downtown Brooklyn were released in February, but the Dattner-designed project comes into clearer focus when new views were revealed this month.

Developed by the Steiner family, who is also building a 50-acre media hub/film studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the tower will house 720 apartments and 42,000 square feet of retail space and feature a large rooftop terrace and bike parking for each unit. Located at 333 Schermerhorn Street just blocks from the new Barclays Center, The Hub could measure up as Brooklyn’s tallest when it’s completed in 2014.
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Another development added a few blocks west, the elimination of open parking lots continues in the area...

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...TATE/121109944

Downtown Brooklyn building site fetches $40M

By Daniel Geiger
November 6, 2012

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A partnership of the Carlyle Group and Flank Development is buying a downtown Brooklyn development site for around $40 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The property is zoned for a building of slightly over 310,000 square feet of space on the site, a roughly 30,000 square foot vacant parcel at 71 Smith St., a block away from Atlantic Avenue. According to the source, Carlyle and Flank will build nearly 210,000 square feet of residential condos and a 105,000-square-foot hotel. In order to achieve the maximum zoning for the site, 105,000 square feet of the development has to be dedicated to commercial use, whether it be a hotel or other some other facility within the same zoning, such as office or education space.

Flank will be the lead builder in the project, the source said. Flank has developed several eye-catching residential and commercial buildings in the city in recent years, including the residential condos 441 E. 57th St. and 385 W. 12th St. and the commercial building at 520 W.27th St.

I think development here has set off a chain reaction of development down Schermerhorn.
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Another development added a few blocks west, the elimination of open parking lots continues in the area...

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...TATE/121109944

Downtown Brooklyn building site fetches $40M

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November 6, 2012




I think development here has set off a chain reaction of development down Schermerhorn.
What is the highest developers can build in Brooklyn at the moment? Always wanted to know what zones are actually "ok'ed" for high rise" towers.
Like specifically Downtown at City Point, could the last tower be as high as 800ft?

If you have any insight about the different zoning heights (limits) that would be awesome as well.
     
     
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What is the highest developers can build in Brooklyn at the moment? Always wanted to know what zones are actually "ok'ed" for high rise" towers.
Like specifically Downtown at City Point, could the last tower be as high as 800ft? If you have any insight about the different zoning heights (limits) that would be awesome as well.
There really aren't any height limits in that area, there are limits in the size of any development. A few years ago, there was talk of limiting the height of Atlantic Yards tallest tower so it wouldn't surpass the WSB building as Brooklyn's tallest, but that has already been surpassed and will be again soon. Further out into the neighborhoods, zoning plays a role in just how high you can build.
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