Park Officials Recommend Developer For Pier Six Towers

By on June 30, 2015 10:25 pm in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Development, News, Real Estate

Despite the possibility that a new environmental review may be required before development may proceed, the Daily News reports that Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation staff have recommended the selection of RAL Development Services for the two proposed high rise residential towers near the Atlantic Avenue entrance to the Park.

RAL was responsible for the development of One Brooklyn Bridge Park, the residential building made from the former warehouse/Jehovah’s Witness laundry at Furman and Joralemon streets. They have selected ODA Architecture to design the buildings. The designs, as proposed, and which reflect some changes from earlier versions based on Park staff suggestions, are shown above. (Image: ODA/RAL Development Services/OLI.)

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  • Banet

    Claude, there was lot more detail in the press release… such as the inclusion of a 75 seat pre-K. Can you at least link to where people can read more?

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com ClaudeScales

    I’ve linked to the Daily News story, which has more detail.

  • Solovely

    June 30, 2015 PFGSF Open Letter to BBPDC Board

    ***
    Dear Mr. Cohen (as Chair of the BBPDC):

    The People for Green Space Foundation Inc. is writing to share its critique of the latest financial projections from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (BBPC). The BBPC’s own numbers imply that the park is breakeven over fifty years, and imply over one billion dollars in cash payments to the city over the life of the project.

    Once adjusted for the “conservatism” in the park analysis, we believe that it is likely that the city will receive more than $10 billion dollars in proceeds from the sale of parkland in a flood zone. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation has a long-standing commitment to minimize development in this park and has made a public promise to reduce development if market conditions allow. Financial analysis is essential to environmental analysis for this park given its unique structure.

    Please see link to letter PDF.

    http://media.virbcdn.com/files/57/adf558a2207a65dc-PFGSFOpenLettertoBBPDCFINALJune302015.pdf

  • Willow Street Watch

    So ODA has been tapped to deliver one of their brilliant designs to our corner of the world…I suggest everyone take the time to actually LOOK at some of their wonderful, area enhancing esthetics….timeless beauty….

    Paging Howard Roark….

  • Willow Street Watch

    Projections of/for the BBPC are a (bad) hologram…even if anyone is so divorced from reality that they consider the image focused and stable,
    Still, it has no solidity upon examination.

  • e

    Does anyone know whether there will be additional parking garage space in these buildings?

  • Banet

    Yes, but just for residents. And I think just in the condo building.

  • skunky

    Here’s a link to the press release, for those interested: http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/press/plans-unveiled-for-pier-6-residential-buildings-at-bbp

    The 75-seat pre-K is a good start to building more school capacity in the area. I’d personally think that the LICH development should include a large elementary school, given the overcrowding at PS8 and PS29

  • skunky

    Just a tip, if you want to have people pay attention to your critique of the Park plan, try editing your open “letter” to something less that 20 pages.

  • skunky

    I’m wondering where all the protests were when a number of high rise condos and rentals went up on Montague in the past ten years. Or this one that just broke ground on Remsen: http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015/07/brooklyn-heights-construction-action-at-153-remsen-street/

  • Jorale-man

    Those were bad in their own ways but there’s one major difference: they weren’t in a park.

  • skunky

    But there’s still infrastructure and density arguments against them. The same people who didn’t want the park in the first place are now the ones trying to “protect” it.

  • Bornhere

    I have zero interest in protecting the park and was opposed to it from the start. I cared about protecting the neighborhood, where I have lived for all the decades (and decades and decades) of my life. If I am irritatingly possessive and protective, well, that comes with the territory, so to speak, and I find no joy in the increased crowds joining the morning commute, leaving garbage all over (especially on weekends), and turning Joralemon Street into a circus of noise and frequent scary shenanigans. Really — if you don’t live on or just off Joralemon, you’re missing the full flavor of this “world-class” addition to Brooklyn Heights. But, hey — let them keep building and walling in this small, historic area — who could possibly be opposed to that?

  • skunky

    That’s a great articulation of the classic “NIMBY” argument. Still waiting for someone to protest the development on Montague. What about Cadman Towers? Did they irreparably harm the “character” of the neighborhood?

    What my point is, I guess, is that the loudest and most irritating members of a community should not get to hold up development of derelict land. If that were so, we’d still have elevated train yards where Cadman Plaza is.

  • Bornhere

    Sheesh — you say “NIMBY” as though it were a bad thing…. And Fulton Street — you know, what us babbling old-timers still call Cadman Plaza West — had the best fish monger ever. And a great butcher, and antiques, and dive bars. And the east side of Henry was pretty damn neat. I could go on, but I do believe I see some ruffians on my lawn.

  • skunky

    What about the houses of ill repute?

  • Bornhere

    Sheesh — you say “ill repute” as though…. :)

  • Willow Street Watch

    See, that’s exactly correct…this one of the main very well hidden aspects of this whole affair.

  • Willow Street Watch

    Skunky comments/stated mindset is exactly like saying someone is narrow or ignorant or shortsighted not to want a highly infectious pathogen inside or near themselves or a loved one. I see, I and my family are in a generally health state. Someone demolishes the house next to me. They clear the lot. THEN they dump a ton or so
    of RED BAG hospital waste!!! I protest to the city, local elected officials and the press. Creating an infectious dump next to my house endangers my family and all my neighbors. The city, pols
    and especially the very PC press replies to all this; NIMBY!!!!

    This is an age of uglyness, binality and madness….

    Will Howard Roark please call in, we have an emergency…..

  • Andrew Porter

    It should be in the basement, below sea level…

  • Andrew Porter

    Let’s call a… It was Club Wylde Fyre, or similar spelling…

  • Andrew Porter

    Here’s the east side of Henry Street, showing all the horrible slums that were torn down: