Possible Plans for Bridge Park Development Site Released
The city has released the proposals submitted by seven development teams that are looking to develop a hotel and condo near Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The guidelines for the site call for 170 to 225 hotel rooms and between 150 and 180 residential units. The big-name developers that have submitted proposals include Extell,…
The city has released the proposals submitted by seven development teams that are looking to develop a hotel and condo near Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The guidelines for the site call for 170 to 225 hotel rooms and between 150 and 180 residential units. The big-name developers that have submitted proposals include Extell, Toll Brothers and the Dermot Company. Pictured above, Two Trees’ proposal; click through for the other six. (For more renderings, the Observer has the best collection.) The board of Brooklyn Bridge Park now has to present the plans to community groups. After a proposal is chosen, construction is supposed to begin in 2013 and wrap a couple years after.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Gets Its Starchitecture [NY Observer]
Seven Developers Vie To Build Hotel in Brooklyn Bridge Park [Eagle]
Unveiling Park Plans [WSJ]
Extell; design by Beyer Blinder Belle
Toll Brothers; design by Rogers Marvel
Dermot Company; design by FXFowle
SDS Procida; design by Leeser Architects
RAL; design by Cangelosi Design & Architecture
Starwood Capital with Alloy, Hamlin and Monadnock; design by Bernheimer Architects, Alloy Development, nArchitects
It’s called a view shed, like a wrote earlier.
Landmarks has nothing to do with it. It is protected by zoning.
the self-sustaining thing is actually pretty smart. The first thing to be cut in any budget balancing is parks maintenance. That is why the city’s big parks became degraded pits until private groups were formed to pay for the restoration with private money. Here, the private money is built in to the equation and the park should never have to fall into a period of prolonged deterioration. New York is not Paris, there is no huge government funding of public spaces. New York is a business city and a pretty ruthless one to boot. The fact that we have any public parks at all is a miracle. They are products of our forefathers’ civic pride and vision. We would never build Central Park or Prospect Park today.
If a single 20-30 story building was placed on the extreme Northeast part of the site – it would have had limited to no effect on the view from the promenade or BH and would have eliminated the need for this “development” which will ultimately have a much bigger footprint and more effect on the site (views as well as otherwise).
Again short-sited anti-height NIMBY restrictions ruled the day – to most every-ones detriment.
The Starwood one is also good for global warming! The increased flooding along the waterfront can just roll right underneath the building. 😉
Starwood’s building looks like it should be in the Financial District or on Madison Avenue. It is buttoned-down corporate. It is totally wrong for a hotel on the park. Whatever goes there should be more fun and interesting. I like WASA and I like FXFowle and I like Marvel. Those are stylish modern buildings that don’t look Manhattan-Corporate.
Starwood’s building looks like it should be in the Financial District or on Madison Avenue. It is buttoned-down corporate. It is totally wrong for a hotel on the park. Whatever goes there should be more fun and interesting. I like WASA and I like FXFowle and I like Marvel. Those are stylish modern buildings that don’t look Manhattan-Corporate.
The bigger (more frustrating) argument is that a public park has to be self-sustaining, but a private basketball arena can have a billion dollars worth of subsidies and be shown to lose money for the city over 40 years. 1% vs. 99%, I guess.
The bigger (more frustrating) argument is that a public park has to be self-sustaining, but a private basketball arena can have a billion dollars worth of subsidies and be shown to lose money for the city over 40 years. 1% vs. 99%, I guess.
You don’t think the people who live closest to a development should have a bigger say in its details?