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Boulevard East
Project # 11
Boulevard East
53 Boerum Place
11 stories 97 feet
Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Dev-Procida Realty and Construction Corporation
Residential Rental
99 units 113,739 Sq. Ft.
Completed August 2002-Fall 2004
53 Boerum Place
Brooklyn,NY11201
http://www.corcoran.com/property/nd/....asp?ndevid=85
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Last edited by Derek2k3; March 1st, 2005 at 10:21 AM.
The building should have been taller
112 Flatbush Avenue
Project #12
112 Flatbush Avenue
557 Atlantic Avenue/558 State Street
8 stories 80 feet
Bricolage Designs
Dev-Denali Construction (Boerum Heights Realty Associates)
Residential
72 units 99,194 Sq. Ft.
Under Construction 2004-2006
Maybe I should give this a thumbs down ahead of time...
252 Atlantic Avenue
Project #13
252 Atlantic Avenue
252 Atlantic Ave/89 Boerum Place
AHF Architects, LLC
8 stories
Dev-Marc Chemtob/Renaissance Realty
Residential Condominium
64 units 114,319 Sq. Ft.
Proposed 2006
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/sh...atlantic+mobil
http://www.brooklynpapers.com/html/i...20/27_20bp.pdf
Condo planned for Atlantic Ave. Mobil Site
By Deborah Kolben
The Brooklyn Papers
Atlantic Avenue may now be home
to baby boutiques and designer furniture
stores, but many residents still
bemoan a two-block stretch in
Boerum Hill not-so-affectionately
know as “the dead zone” or “the gap.”
Filled with gas stations, parking lots
and a prison, the stretch of Atlantic Avenue
near Boerum Place separates rapidly
developing sections of the avenue to the
east and west.
But these days even the so-called gap is
beginning to fill in.
A developer is looking to replace the
Mobil gas station and car wash at Boerum
Place with an eight-story luxury condominium.
In addition to ground-floor retail space,
the building at 252 Atlantic Ave. would include
approximately 65 apartments and a
parking garage, according Patrick Jones,
attorney for the property’s owner, Marc
Chemtob.
Chemtob and his associates are still
working out design kinks but hope to
make an application to the Board of Standards
and Appeals soon.
Last week Jones presented the plans to
Community Board 2.
While the design kinks are sill being
worked out, the community is welcoming
the development with open arms.
“This is great news,” said Sandy Balboza,
president of the Atlantic Avenue
Better Association (ABBA), who called
the gas station an “eyesore.”
The organization has been working for
years to help develop that strip and in the
late 1990s sponsored a study examining the
problem between Court and Smith streets.
“Our goal is to eliminate that gap and
connect the two now-divided retail strips.
It’s one avenue with two separate retail
strips because of that area,” said Balboza.
The transformation began two years
ago when the city sold off a massive municipal
parking garage at the corner of Atlantic
Avenue and Court Street.
Real estate developer David Walentas,
best known for his redevelopment of
DUMBO, in the past year razed the
garage to make way for a 12-story building
with 20,000 square feet of groundfloor
retail space, loosely slated for a
home furnishings business, about 600 underground,
public parking spaces and 250
apartments on the second through 12th
floors. A 40,000-square-foot YMCAwith
an entrance on Atlantic Avenue is also part
of the project.
Down the block at Smith Street and Atlantic
Avenue, developer Shaya Boymelgreen
is converting a state-owned parking
lot into a retail and residential development.
The hulking Brooklyn House of Detention
still stands opposite the gas station
site at Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place.
Last year, the city transferred all the inmates
from the jail to Rikers Island and
some neighbors are now asking the city to
sell it off or tear it down.
“There has been enormous change,”
said Sue Wolfe, president of the Boerum
Hill Association. “That was a real stopgap,
it was quite unpleasant,” she added.
Wolfe hopes Atlantic Avenue can be become
a grand boulevard connecting the
planned BAM Cultural District in Fort
Greene with Brooklyn Bridge Park — the
1.3-mile commercial and recreational
space planned along the waterfront between
Jay Street and Atlantic Avenue.
While Wolfe said she was excited about
the gas station development, there are still
several concerns.
“We think the design should be
rethought,” she said, noting the balconies,
which the developer has aggred to remove.
Wolfe said aesthetics were particularly
important because, for many people
coming off the Brooklyn Bridge, this will
be their first glimpse into the borough.
The Mobil gas station and car wash, on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place may be knocked down and replaced
with eight stories of luxury condominiums.
Now if only they built a tower a-top that. I really think they should upzone residential as well
The Brooklyn Renaissance Plaza Expansion
Project #14
The Brooklyn Renaissance Plaza Expansion
345 Adams Street
23 stories 240 feet
SB Architects/William B Tabler Architects
Dev-Muss Development Co.
Commercial Hotel
283 units 180,000 Sq. Ft.
Proposed Winter 2005-Fall 2006
William B Tabler Architects
The Brooklyn Renaissance Plaza Expansion
http://www.williamtabler.com/brp_exp.htm
WBTA is currently working on a 283 Room addition to the successful Brooklyn
Renaissance Plaza Project. The new tower shall be connected to the existing facility
via a two level bridge designed as a floating trellis. The lower levels are clad in limestone.
The tower gracefully steps back at the corners, giving this edifice a stately appearance
that works well in this neighborhood of federal and local courts. Working with designers
SB Architects, WBTA developed an efficient floor plan on a tight 87' x 97' footprint.
The new building has meetings rooms and retail space.
NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/...p-233994c.html
Solid as a bedrock
Marriott has room to grow 24 stories
BY NICHOLAS LoVECCHIO
and MAGGIE HABERMAN
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Mayor Bloomberg is flanked by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz (l.) and developer Joshua Muss at groundbreaking for Marriott expansion project in downtown Brooklyn yesterday.
Officials drove shovels into the dirt yesterday for an expansion of the booming Brooklyn Heights Marriott that will nearly double the size of the borough's best-known full-service hotel.
"It's just part of the revival of Brooklyn," said Mayor Bloomberg at a groundbreaking ceremony - much of which was held indoors because of the frigid weather.
The 24-story expansion will add 280 rooms to the Marriott complex on Adams St., bringing the total number of rooms to 656.
New street furniture will be put on the plaza between Adams and Jay Sts., and there will be a pedestrian bridge connecting the original hotel to the new building.
"There's nothing else of the scale and size in this area. This hotel is much needed here," said Philip Wolf, an executive at Muss Development, which is building the new structure.
Wolf added that they are hunting for a retail tenant for the first floor, hopefully something that will be open around the clock for the neighborhood.
"We want to get late-hour usage, to take advantage of all the students living nearby," Wolf said.
The expansion will be built on a patch of land adjacent to the hotel that Muss Development bought from the city for $5.2 million.
Bloomberg, noting that the Brooklyn Marriott is the chain's most productive hotel, said the $77 million construction project will create 100 permanent jobs. It is expected to be ready for business next year.
"It's great to be associated with a project that doesn't have any detractors," joked the Jets Stadium-supportive mayor.
Borough President Marty Markowitz noted that the hotel has "become so much a part of our life," adding: "When this idea was conceived, it was during some of Brooklyn's most challenging" times.
The original concept for the hotel came in 1983, but it took almost 15 years before it actually got built - the first full-service hotel in the borough in 70 years.
Once it did, it was widely seen as a beacon of Brooklyn's rebirth, signaling that people were willing to come across the river.
Within a year, the hotel was jam-packed, with an average 80% occupancy rate each year, considered high in the industry.
And its prices are competitive with another major hotel in the chain, the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Kathy Duffy, a New York-based Marriott spokeswoman, said that the average rate for a standard room at Brooklyn's hotel in January is $249.
At the Marquis, which is a far bigger hotel situated right in Broadway, the rates for the same type of room in January are $239 to $299, she said.
Originally published on January 21, 2005
Thread on the project here:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3677
Not much to see yet.
March 6, 2005
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
Yet Another New Chapter for a Glamorous Old Theater
By JEFF VANDAM
Possibly the fanciest gym ceiling in town.
rom its inception, the Paramount Theater in downtown Brooklyn was a knockout. Starting in 1928, it welcomed guests into its mirrored lobby and its impossibly ornate playhouse, where Miles Davis, Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby and Mae West performed under innumerable golden statues and fountains spewing dry ice. A Wurlitzer organ, second in size only to Radio City's, trumpeted tunes through yards upon yards of pipe.
These days seem different. If they notice, passers-by on Flatbush Avenue will see a barely legible blue script on the side of a tan brick building across from Junior's. "Paramount Theatre," it whispers, implying there is little else to remember the old place by.
But inside the building, now part of Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, nearly all the Paramount's trappings remain. Students consume sausage pizza in the lobby, its shimmering cylindrical chandeliers still hanging above their heads. Inside the theater itself, the rococo fountains and statues still stand, though they now peer down at a basketball court, where the L.I.U. Blackbirds have played home games since 1963.
Until now, that is. The Blackbirds are in the midst of the 2005 postseason, which will be their final games in the Paramount, currently named the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Athletic Center. This fall, the school's teams will move nearby into a bright new complex that will house athletic facilities and a community health center.
The Paramount, its magnificent aura intact, will become something else. Again.
"As beautiful as the old Paramount is, it really isn't an appropriate state-of-the-art facility for athletic competition," said Gale Stevens Haynes, provost for the university's Brooklyn campus. Her grand office overlooking Flatbush used to belong to the Paramount's manager.
Though no formal plans have been announced, Ms. Haynes expressed interest in perhaps placing a student union inside the Paramount. In the meantime, intramural events will continue to be held there, and pickup games are always welcome; last week, a group of gray-bearded professors played three on three.
Yet among those who grew up with the Paramount, there is a longing for something more. Joe Dorinson, an L.I.U. history professor, had his first date in the theater, an event that apparently did not go well. Nevertheless, Mr. Dorinson represents a group who would like to see the theater returned to its original usage.
"It cries out for something more dramatic," he said, voicing a wish that grand shows return to the Paramount's stage. "This would be a wonderful way to hail Brooklyn."
Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
The Joseph J. & Violet J. Jacobs Building
Project #15
The Joseph J. & Violet J. Jacobs Building
305-315 Jay Street
8 stories 115 feet
Davis Brody Bond
Dev-Polytechnic University
Mixed Use
68,000 Sq. Ft. (Six academic floors & Recreation/gymnasium complex)
Completed 2000-Summer 2002
The Joseph J. & Violet J. Jacobs Building, Polytechnic University
http://www.poly.edu/construction_ren...n/academic.cfm
As part of Polytechnic’s transformation, the University is improving the physical plant at MetroTech Center. An eight-story Joseph J. and Violet J. Jacobs Building is currently under construction and will contain state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, as well as a fully equipped athletic center. Rogers Hall, Polytechnic's original academic building, is undergoing major renovations to provide students with access to modern, well-equipped laboratories and classrooms—wired for the Internet, long-distance learning and state-of-the-art audio/visual instruction.
The Addition will be a new eight-story structure that abuts Rogers Hall, the primary academic building on Polytechnic's Brooklyn campus. It will be situated on land already owned by the university, hence will require no new real estate transactions.
The Addition, adding approximately 68,000 gross square feet, will provide an entirely new facade to the university's main entrance. As such, it is likely to become the architecturally dominant feature of the south side of the campus.
The basement and most of the lower three floors will be devoted to a new gymnasium and supporting athletic facilities, while part of the third floor, and all of floors four through eight, will be devoted to academic functions.
The northern side of the Addition will adjoin Rogers Hall, which will undergo extensive renovation. Upon completion, the two structures will exhibit seamless floor-to-floor continuity, with the facilities within the Addition being fully integrated-both spatially and functionally-with facilities in the renovated Rogers Hall. The academic floors of the Addition and corresponding floors of Rogers Hall will conform to the following general pattern on each floor level: undergraduate design and innovation facilities will be located in the Addition; classrooms, upper division laboratories, and student departmental activities will be concentrated in the central core of Rogers Hall, near the elevator bank; research labs and offices will be primarily located in the southern portion of the Addition.
For detailed, floor-by-floor, architectural drawings and descriptions, click on the thumbnail images of the floors you wish to view
As part of Polytechnic’s transformation, the University is improving the physical plant at MetroTech Center. An eight-story Joseph J. and Violet J. Jacobs Building is currently under construction and will contain state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, as well as a fully equipped athletic center. Rogers Hall, Polytechnic's original academic building, is undergoing major renovations to provide students with access to modern, well-equipped laboratories and classrooms—wired for the Internet, long-distance learning and state-of-the-art audio/visual instruction.
Davis Brody Bond
Polytechnic Jacobs Building
Brooklyn, NY
2002
http://www.davisbrody.com/
Following the Polytechnic University Expansion Master Plan, Davis Brody Bond was commissioned to design the Joseph J. and Violet J. Jacobs Building, a mixed-use building consisting of six academic floors and a recreation/gymnasium complex. The academic areas include two lecture halls, several multipurpose seminar rooms, engineering and computer labs as well as wet-labs for the chemistry and biology departments.
This new building is an addition to the school’s existing Rogers Hall. Its L-shaped plan creates an internal, landscaped courtyard directly above the gymnasium level. Located on Jay Street in Brooklyn, it represents a new image and front door for the University. The entry lobby is a three-story atrium that offers access to both the academic floors and the gymnasium level. The lobby also serves to connect the building to other student meetings areas in the existing Rogers Hall such as the cafeteria and lounge space.
The materials used in the design of Jacobs Building unite the structure with the Othmer Residence Hall as well as the Dibner Library which was designed by Davis Brody Bond in 1992. A glass curtain wall, precast concrete and metal panels are all part of a consistent design vocabulary intended to create the sense of a cohesive campus. The unification of these structures will be further achieved by the upgrading of the original Rogers Hall in the next phase.
Joseph J. and Violet J. Jacobs Building
9 stories
Davis Brody Bond Architects
Completed 2002
Wired New York page on the building:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/polytechnic_jacobs.htm
The Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Residence Hall
Project #16
The Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Residence Hall
101 Tech Place/85 Johnson Street
19 stories 195 feet
Davis Brody Bond
Dev-Polytechnic University
Residential DOrmitory
440 Units 115,591 Sq. Ft.
Completed 2000-2002
Davis Brody Bond
Polytechnic Othmer Residence Hall
Brooklyn, NY
2002
http://www.davisbrody.com/main.cfm?go=1
The new Othmer Residence Hall is the first dormitory building on the Polytechnic University campus. It realizes one of the major goals of the University’s expansion master plan to introduce student life and residential facilities that had not previously existed on this urban campus. As Polytechnic University is a predominately commuter school, this housing building enables the school to attract a more diverse student body.
The Othmer Residence Hall stands at 18 stories and is comprised of 400 dormitory bed units, a student cafeteria, and staff apartments. Open two-story lounges, situated on every other floor, provide informal areas for student interaction. The student residents are designed as suites. The second through eighth floors contain four person suites that are designated for freshman students, and the upper floors contain two person suites equipped with kitchen facilities. The completion of this new campus facility has helped create a more cohesive campus environment.
http://www.poly.edu/reslife/housing/othmer.cfm
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113873
http://newyork.construction.com/proj...wdMeritRes.asp
Wired New York page on the project:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/polytechnic_dormitory.htm
199 State Street
11 floors, 116 ft
46 units
Architect: Fox&Fowle
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...CE4CFD7393E84A
NYC Office of Emergency Management Building
Cool, that should be an interesting project.
Project #18
NYC Office of Emergency Management Building
159-165 Cadman Plaza East
3 stories 56 feet
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Dev-NYC Office of Emergency Management
Commercial Office
66,245 Sq. Ft.
Under Construction February 2006
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
NYC Office of Emergency Management
New York, NY
http://www.shca.com/portfolio/defaul...e=Architecture
SHCA has been retained by the New York City Department of Design and Construction to provide architectural and interior design services for New York City's new Office of Emergency Management Headquarters. The facility, which will replace the former headquarters destroyed on September 11, 2001, will be located at Cadman Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn. Formerly the site of the American Red Cross building, the location places O.E.M. prominently at the northern terminus of Brooklyn's Civic Center. The project scope calls for a re-clad, gut renovation and addition to an existing 3 story building. The program, of approximately 65,000 square feet, includes a new 100 person Emergency Operations Center, Watch Command, General Office space and a Press and Conference Center. The building will be supported by state of the art A/V and IT systems as well as redundant electro-mechanical systems. Completion is scheduled for October 2005.
The site for 557 Atlantic is completely cleared and ready to roll.
Schermerhorn House
Cool, I'll be surprised if anything good springs out.
Project # 19
Schermerhorn House (HS Developement Site Phase II)
Corner of Schermerhorn and Hoyt Streets
11 stories
Polshek Partnership Architects, LLP
Dev-HS Developement Partners LLC/Common Ground Community/The Actors Fund
200 units 97,000 Sq. Ft.
Affordable Residential Condominiums
Proposed 2005-2007
Polshek Partnership Architects
http://www.polshek.com
GIVE THEM SHELTER
For pioneering affordable-housing advocate Rosanne Haggerty, good design is hardly an extravagance. In fact, it pays for itself.
AN SRO FROM THE GROUND UP
By Anna Holtzman
http://www.commonground.org/org_info...Architecture2/
Forging ahead into other realms of design, Common Ground is developing its first ground-up construction, a 200-unit building in downtown Brooklyn designed by firm partners Susan Rodriguez and Timothy Hartung of Polshek Partnership. The project is a joint venture between Common Ground and the Actors' Fund of America, for whom Common Ground already manages a low-income residence for entertainment professionals in Manhattan. Like the Times Square Hotel, the Brooklyn building will house a fifty-fifty mix of formerly homeless people and low-income tenants, many of whom, in this case, are employed in the arts and entertainment industries.
The land for the project, part of a parcel being developed by Hamlin Ventures and Time Equities, was given to Common Ground by the developers because, as a city-designated urban-renewal site, a portion of the property had to be dedicated to low-income housing. The rest of the site will contain market-rate residential and commercial buildings. Common Ground chose Polshek Partnership in part because of the firm's previous experience on projects like The Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan that also faced this site's peculiar challenge: close proximity to a subway tunnel. In some areas, the structure will sit only 5 inches above the train passage. Four 23-foot trusses, which are exposed at the first two stories, suspend the building over the tunnel and visually "set the presence of the building apart from traditional low-income projects" Hartung believes. "Part of Common Ground's mission [with this project]," he adds, is to establish "pride of place." Incorporating sustainable initiatives is another goal of the project; the architects are following LEED guidelines (and may apply for the certification, if funding allows) and are pursuing the use of green roofs, daylighting-the front of the building is mainly glass-and recycled materials. Construction starts next year, and completion is planned for 2007.
Beyond communicating its ideology through architectural expression locally, Common Ground is spreading its innovative thinking about homelessness to cities across the United States and around the world. In addition to partnering with local organizations on projects in London; Newburgh, New York; and Hartford and Willimantic, Connecticut, the nonprofit runs a "replication" program that educates housing organizations in countries as far away as Australia and Japan. With the First Step Housing competition, Haggerty hopes to also inspire other humane approaches to temporary shelter. With her imaginative and pragmatic approach to affordable housing, she stands a very good chance.
Articles on the entire development:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3067
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...0/ai_112862710
Photo of the HS Development Site from the NYT.
U.S. Federal Courthouse for the Eastern Regional District
Project #20
U.S. Federal Courthouse for the Eastern Regional District
275 Washington Street/26-48 Tillary Street
18 stories 260 feet
HLW/Cesar Pelli & Associates
Dev-U.S. Government
Civil Building
650,000 Sq. Ft.
Completed 2000-2004
NEW U.S. COURTHOUSE
http://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/General...dbreaking.html
The new Federal Courthouse will be located in the Civic Center of downtown Brooklyn, visible from the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, lower Manhattan and surrounding neighborhoods. It will be constructed on the site if the former Emanuel Cellar building was razed in 1998.
The project is comprised of three architectural elements: the 6-story existing courthouse; a 6-story connecting entry hall, which includes the main building entrance, lobby and cross-building connectors; and the new courthouse, a 14-story, limestone-clad tower. The combined building elements will function as the new court complex.
The new $222 million building will ultimately house 16 District courtrooms, nine Magistrate courtrooms and 29 judges' chambers. The building will open in 2002 with 12 District Courtrooms, for Magistrate courtrooms, one Arraignment courtroom and 17 judges' chambers. To provide for both current needs and beyond, areas to be occupied by future courtrooms and chambers will initially house the U.S. Probation Department, which will be relocated from the building, as additional court space is needed. The courtrooms and chambers are arranged in a collegial layout with a single chambers floor located between two court floors. This layout reduces the size if the floorplate, creating a more tapered building profile. The smaller Magistrate floors, located in the upper tower, allow the building to be setback at the top. The Courthouse will also house a U.S. Court of Appeals Library, offices for the District Court Clerk, the Pretrial Services Agency and the U.S. Marshals Service. The building will include a food service facility and a Jury Assembly area, as well a below ground parking.
Designed by HLW International L.L.P and Cesar Pelli and Associates
Wired New York Page on the building:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/brooklyn...se/default.htm
Other links:
http://www.geocities.com/brooklyn_rise/fed.html
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100382
http://www.fwdodge.com/dcp/NYCN/NYju...2002/TP_8.html
http://www.fwdodge.com/dcp/NYCN/NYco...re2-mar01.html
http://newyork.construction.com/feat...11_Cover_C.asp
http://gothamgazette.com/community/33/news/831
http://www.stoneworld.com/CDA/Articl...109040,00.html
Fifteen Metrotech
Originally Posted by Derek2k3
Not my camera obviously. You can download these full size fron the Forest City Enterprises web site.
http://www.forestcity.net/press_property_off.html
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