[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

As DT Brooklyn continues to explode, that dopey hideous Atlantic Terminal/Center mall will look more and more ridiculous. I would expect a proposal to redevelop by Forest City within the next 5 years.

Could happen...

It's possible that this, like so much regarding this project, is a gambit, and they will "accept" a compromise in which 100,000 or more square feet are shaved off.

Or that some of the development rights might be moved to Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Center Mall, which already has the option to build about 1.1 million square feet (1.586 million square feet minus the Site 5 development rights) in three towers over the mall.

Originally Posted by chris08876

I hope its a super tall.

Whatever the height ( I would say at least 800 ft, possibly 1,000 ), it looks like they want to build something that would be identified with Brooklyn...

"Pacific Park was always meant to include modern office space," a spokeswoman for Greenland Forest City said in a statement. "We think the time is right for the borough to have an iconic office building for the new Brooklyn economy and the thousands of jobs it will bring to the doorstep of one of the city’s largest transit hubs."

The time is right, but there is competition, at least at this stage...


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...3&postcount=27

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories...-02-19-bk.html

Report: Brooklyn in midst of high-end office building boom

BY LAUREN GILL
February 12, 2015


Brooklyn is no longer Manhattan’s back office!

Developers are erecting high-end office buildings across the borough, and real estate experts say big companies are now rushing to relocate inside them so they can tap into the local talent pool — bucking Kings County’s image as a place to stash away support staff in cheap digs

.....Demand is so high, some developers are ditching their plans for luxury residential towers to create swanky office complexes instead.

In October, Glacier Global Partners abandoned a condominium project inside a Dumbo waterfront warehouse to fit it out for businesses. And the next month, Jemb Realty announced it was scrapping a planned apartment building Downtown — which boasts some of the lowest vacancy rates in the city — to create a 40-story commercial building.

Jemb claims businesses are now beating down its door to snag space in its Albee Square West building — the first new office tower to rise Downtown in more than a decade — when it opens in 2018.

“They want us to build faster and they’re very excited to get in there,” said president Jacob Jerome.

Jerome says around 80 percent of the businesses looking at the building are creative companies hoping to move out of the overcrowded Manhattan market to the borough many of their employees call home.

“People want to live and work in Brooklyn,” he said.





http://newyork.citybizlist.com/artic...a-office-tower