NEW YORK | Gowanus Canal Redevelopment

[Mimol742]

Originally Posted by Crawford

LOL at the NIMBYs. Straight Outta Paramus.

Apparently they want to keep Gowanus an abandoned, toxic dump, instead of building like 20,000 units of affordable housing, plus schools, parks and transit improvements. Very progressive. Thank God Eric Adams is a strong supporter of the rezoning.

These communists are against any sort of development.

[NYguy]

https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/202...pment-go-ahead

Gowanus Redevelopment Gets Go-Ahead as de Blasio’s Team Sails Away

By Greg David
September 22, 2021

With nearly unanimous approval Wednesday from the City Planning Commission, the long-in-the-making rezoning of Gowanus heads to crucial negotiations between key City Council members and Mayor Bill de Blasio over the Brooklyn neighborhood’s future.

The final result will be key to the de Blasio legacy: It’s the administration’s first effort to use rezoning to spur racial and economic diversification of one of the city’s whitest and increasingly wealthy neighborhoods.

The proposal is also the linchpin of efforts to clear up the polluted area, home to the infamous Gowanus Canal, a Superfund site. And the rezoning bid comes as a similar de Blasio-sponsored effort in SoHo and NoHo in Manhattan appears bogged down by intense opposition.

[MAC123]

Originally Posted by Mimol742

These communists are against any sort of development.

Keep that to yourself man.

[MAC123]

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/...cw4-story.html

Yay...

[chris08876]

Zoning approvals today:




AND

[MAC123]

https://www.6sqft.com/nyc-council-ap...anus-rezoning/

Gowanus rezoning has gone through.

[Busy Bee]

Great news. Can't wait to see all the new developments start to take the anus out of Gowanus.

[Busy Bee]

Is there a Gowanus district plan to "soften" the canal walls, which is currently mostly sheet piling, by stacking huge retaining stones or something similar that would be planted with grasses and other "natural" looking vegetation etc etc? It would go a long way in correcting the "industrial backwater" look.

[chris08876]

Looks like something may manifest as per rendering.

The details are likely tucked into the large project presentation usualy given to the boards with the type of materials.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Looks like something may manifest as per rendering.

Yeah but it still looks like ugly sheet piling is still the primary retaining wall material.

[Busy Bee]

If my memory serves me this is the one where they intentionally didn't not go tall to preserve the iconic Manhattan skyline from Smith/9...

[chris08876]

Earthwork Begins For 544 Carroll Street In Gowanus, Brooklyn

Excavation is getting underway at 544 Carroll Street, the site of a 17-story residential building on the eastern edge of Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed and developed by Avery Hall, the 175,000-square-foot structure will yield 133 rental units with 30 percent designated as affordable housing, as well as 6,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Northeast Specialist Group LLC is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 272 Fourth Avenue and bound by Carroll Street to the north and 4th Avenue to the east.

Recent photographs show the site cleared up to the lot line brick wall of the MTA substation at 276 4th Avenue, and up to the Gil Hodges Community Garden along Carroll Street. A pair of excavators is working around piles of concrete and metal debris that are waiting to be hauled away.

The main rendering depicts a a light-colored façade with a grid of wide floor-to-ceiling windows from floors one through 12, followed by a tighter fenestration on the top five levels. Several setbacks are positioned across the massing, making room for landscaped terraces. The double-height ground floor is clad with dark metal paneling and tall windows for the retail frontage. The main entrance appears to be tucked along Carroll Street.

Avery Hall acquired the main lot at 272 4th Avenue for $15 million in 2019, followed by 274 4th Avenue and 538 Carroll Street for $5.3 million to complete the assemblage. The scale of the structure was made possible through the $30 million acquisition of 50,000 square feet of air rights from the adjacent MTA substation at 276 4th Avenue. The closest subway from the property is the R train at the Union Street station along 4th Avenue.

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NYY

[chris08876]

544 Carroll Street received a construction loan.

[chris08876]

Credit: Skyline Scaffolding Group

[NYguy]

https://projects.thecity.nyc/hazard-...MjIyMS4wLjAuMA..

[chris08876]

IMG_8632 by Clay Hensley, on Flickr