Almost Done at the Bushwick Inlet Park Building?

To our surprise, the Bushwick Inlet Park is looking nearly finished these days. The 15,530-square-foot building will be used for community facilities and park operations. The multipurpose athletic field and the Bushwick Inlet Park shoreline are the only available park spaces currently accessible out of the 28 acres of parkland promised after the Williamsburg rezoning. The ETA for the community facility is scheduled for sometime at the beginning of this year — in December, the Parks Department told the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park it would open by March. The building, designed by Kiss and Cathcart Architects, is very energy friendly and will use a green roof to cool the interior. Inhabitat posted some great photos of the green roof under construction, which actually slopes down into the ground-level soccer fields. (Check out a rendering on the entire space here.) This park space has been a contentious issue between the city and local residents for a long time now.