Development Watch: 107 Lawrence Ready for Next Stage
Remember that huge project Clarett has brewing on Lawrence Street in Downtown Brooklyn? Well, demo’s done on the two-story building formerly owned by the State of New York so we’re thinking there should be some actual construction permits coming down the pipe pretty soon. Remember, people, 51 stories. 51 stories. Clarett’s Big Plans on Lawrence…
Remember that huge project Clarett has brewing on Lawrence Street in Downtown Brooklyn? Well, demo’s done on the two-story building formerly owned by the State of New York so we’re thinking there should be some actual construction permits coming down the pipe pretty soon. Remember, people, 51 stories. 51 stories.
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I’m already psyched about this. It’s like all other development down here…the more it is, the better the chance, no matter how slightly, I might be able to afford to buy something here. Keep it up guys.
I’d debate with 9:44 too, only I have no idea what they’re trying to say.
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3:59 here. I believe, 4:13, that there is a market for commercial tenants in downtown Brooklyn. Obviously, the rent needs to be competitive. This building site was sold at auction. I would rather see a smaller bid — it was only a one-shot $24M for the State budget as it is — and construction of the real “highest-and-best-use” then a further dilution of the downtown core.
You state quite reasonably, “With all that commercial square footage coming online at [t]he WTC2 and the Westside Rezoning… Downtown brooklyn’s future isn’t commercial,” to which I reply, then the City shouldn’t have rezoned downtown in the first place. Or, it should have at least been honest that its goal was a high-rise residential district. The public could have then evaluated and commented on that plan, and not a bait-and-switch economic development plan.
RE: 3:59
Why would you want an office development here if the market won’t support it? That’s a sure fire formula for a delapidated urban core that is seriously out of equilibrium with the rest of NYC. With all that commercial square footage coming online at he WTC2 and the Westside Rezoning… Downtown brooklyn’s future isn’t commercial. The downtown is small enough to make for a perfect dense urban neighborhood.
The Dept City Planning miscalculated the commercial demand for BK office space – probably because there are more planners there than real estate underwriters. In a way, the financial district was/is becoming the distination for non-financial firms – not dtwn BK.
wouldn’t you think developers would figure something out when very few people oppose gigantic buildings like this THAT ARE BUILT DOWNTOWN, where they belong? Ratner and his money machine are in heaven here with no obstacles, and yet they still continue to ruin and fight low-rise communities with out-of-scale towers. try learning a few things from experience for a change, put the buildings where they belong and there will be no problem. capito?
^No there’s a legitimate complaint.
This project is proof of my running assertion that the City is not committed to developing downtown Brooklyn as a central business district, as it stated when it presented its plans in 2004. I find it hard to believe that the Mayor’s office couldn’t find a way to get the State to agree to impose a deed restriction that limited development to commercial space when it auctioned this property. This site is right in MetroTech. Residential buildings are going up all over the city. As the revision of the 421-a tax abatement attests, we are well past the time that we should be grateful that someone is building something, anything, in Brooklyn. This site does not need to be, nor should it be, a residential building site. A real lost opportunity to strengthen the city’s third central business district. 51 stories? That’s not the issue.
Good to hear. But you have to agree the line “Remember, people, 51 stories. 51 stories.” would lead one to believe you are against such a tall building at this site.