Two Trees Rental on Atlantic Rises As TJ's Treads Water
Two Trees isn’t wasting any time putting up its new rental next to the future home of Trader Joe’s on Atlantic Avenue. It’s not clear whether the City Council has officially approved the building at 182 Atlantic Avenue, which is slated to rise 10 feet higher than what’s allowed in the Cobble Hill Historic District,…
Two Trees isn’t wasting any time putting up its new rental next to the future home of Trader Joe’s on Atlantic Avenue. It’s not clear whether the City Council has officially approved the building at 182 Atlantic Avenue, which is slated to rise 10 feet higher than what’s allowed in the Cobble Hill Historic District, but last week the DOB issued a permit for a six-story building. Even if Two Trees is waiting for the Council’s OK on those last 10 feet, though, the rest of the development (which is supposed to look like the rendering on the jump, per Curbed) is going up very quickly. At the same time, no work has been done on the Trader Joe’s building, a state of affairs that’s not sitting well with Lost City. The blog points out that Two Trees argued the new rental should be green-lighted because the developer was going to be a worthy custodian of the landmark former bank/future supermarket:
For the past couple weeks, the new structure has been a hive of activity, quickly rising floor by floor. Meanwhile, at the future home of Trader Joe’s: tumbleweeds. No action since the interior was gutted months ago. Apparently, Two Trees has its priorities, and they’re the exact opposite of the wants of the neighborhood, which doesn’t crave the rental and is longing for the supermarket.
Of course, for all we know, the hold-up in renovating the bank building has to do with Trader Joe’s and not Two Trees. Any insider perspectives?
Update: We’ve heard from Councilman de Blasio’s office that the Council did not approve Two Trees’ application to build 10 feet higher than what’s allowed in the Cobble Hill Historic District. The Council sent the proposal back to the Planning Commission, and the plans were subsequently approved at 50 feet, conforming to the district’s height limitations.
10 Feet for Trader Joe’s Building Preservation: A Fair Trade? [Brownstoner] GMAP
Will Two Trees Proposal for Atlantic Ave. Get Chopped? [Brownstoner]
Skewed Priorities [Lost City]
Does Walentas’ Size Matter on Atlantic Ave.? [Curbed]
Well if you compare it to the nasty looking multiplex down the street, anything looks better.
But who cares about this building, get the Trader Joe’s stocked and open!
if you check the D.O.B. website, you’ll see Two Trees permit related only to demolition which was finished awhile ago.
I happen to know that Two Trees finished its work on the bank building last fall and that Trader Joe’s has been very slow getting its permits & work done.
You can always count on the greedy nimbys to look after their own interests above those of the surrounding community. This building is on a major avenue in Brooklyn and there is absolutely no reasonable reason why this building couldn’t be at least 10 stories. We are not talking about a proposed super-tall office building that would have been over 100 stories with over 7k people in the building. They were talking about only adding 10′, 1 floor on the structure. The complaining about density is just code for greedy row-house owners to have a low supply of rentals in order for the rent price to be higher for their own units in the row-house.
Don’t kid yourself row-house owners, you’re so god damn suburban it isn’t even funny.
That doesn’t look bad at all. I was expecting some monstrous hideosity!
How do we ‘know’ that no work is being done at Trader Joe’s? Is just by casual observation of a passerby, or do we have something real.
I would think when a company leases a space – that they would be responsible for constructing interior – Is there something somewhere that says the TwoTrees is the contractor for interior space of TraderJoes –
or does LostCity just write everything off the top of his head?
Mr. B, the GMAP link is pointing to the intersection of Atlantic and Brooklyn Ave in Bed-Stuy, which would be an interesting location for this development but is sadly incorrect.
Well, the rendering looks nice enough. (How much can you take renderings like this at face value?) Certainly better than the big gaping hole that was before. Looks like the extra height is on a setback, which I find a little surprising–if anything, I would think they could get away with the extra height on the Atlantic side, and keep it lower on the Pacific side, which is lower-rise and residential.
But yes, more interested in when Trader Joe’s is finally going to be finished and open!
how many units is this?