City Planning Certifies Domino Sugar Factory for ULURP
[nggallery id=”39816″ template=galleryview] Yesterday the New York City Department of City Planning certified the development plan for the former Domino Sugar Factory, kicking off the seven-month ULURP process. Known as New Domino, the project is slated to bring 660 units of affordable housing (breakdown by income category on the jump) and 1,540 units of market-rate…
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Yesterday the New York City Department of City Planning certified the development plan for the former Domino Sugar Factory, kicking off the seven-month ULURP process. Known as New Domino, the project is slated to bring 660 units of affordable housing (breakdown by income category on the jump) and 1,540 units of market-rate housing to the Williamsburg waterfront; there will also be 128,000 square feet of retail, 98,000 square feet of commercial office, and 147,000 square feet of community facility space. The ambitious undertaking, which has been in the planning stages now for almost five years now and includes the preservation of the existing landmarked refinery building and the creation of 11 acres of public space, is being developed by the Community Preservation Corporation and designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects and Beyer Blinder Belle. “This is an important moment for us, the community and the city; acres of parks, views of three bridges and affordable housing for hundreds of families,” said Michael Lappin, President and CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) and CPC Resources, Inc. “We look forward to full community participation as we enter the formal public review process. According to the blog Brooklyn 11211, which had an extensive post on the topic yesterday, the presentation to Community Board 1—the first step in the land review process—could happen as early as next week with a full board vote coming by the second week in February.
Big Plans for Old Sugar Refinery Face Review [NY Times]
City Begins Review of $1.2B Domino Project [Brooklyn Paper]
City Planning Certifies Domino Sugar Waterfront Development [Brooklyn Eagle]
City Planning Certifies Waterfront Project [Courier Life]
New Landscape Renderings on ‘New Domino’ Site [Brownstoner]
Inside the LPC Meeting About Domino: New Plan OK’d [Brownstoner]
LPC Still Not Buying Domino Plan [Brownstoner]
New Domino Plans Falter at LPC Hearing [Brownstoner]
More Domino Plans [Brownstoner]
Domino Sugar Factory Proposed Addition Revealed [Brownstoner]
BREAKING! LPC Approves Historic Designation for Domino [Brownstoner]
CPC Shows and Tells Its Plans for Domino [Brownstoner] GMAP
Plans for ‘New Domino’ Released by City Planning [Brownstoner]
Public access? Where the heck is a bike path in this development? This is how most of the “public” will be coming to and traveling along the waterfront in the near future. City planning has taken a step back on this one, unfortunately. Hope they do better with other developments coming to the waterfront.
look at this another way – this is prime prime property sitting on the riverfront that was empty! it’s not like it was a working factory. it was nothing. isn’t it smart to get more housing in general? everyone complains about affordability, but it’s related to supply and demand. more supply, then the prices can at least try to be competitive.
any major city, like Chicago, for instance is lined with apartments on the lake. what’s the sense in this property sitting empty?
the access to the waterfront for the general public will be a huge advantage. PS 84 which will serve this building, has an entire empty floor! the neighborhood will benefit.
also, i know from that single people got in the Edge affordable rental housing. did you guys try? the income requirement was quite low.
Having spent several years paying 50% of my take-home pay in rent, I can’t say it is a state I’m eager to return to ever. It does suck. It meant things like cable and cell phones were beyond my reach, let alone savings or health insurance.
That being said, I’m not sure how much cheaper these housing prices could be. You want cheaper? Move to Ingersoll. Everyone in this city at this point, barring rent control, is paying at least $1K a month. And if that is too much? Get roommates. Or move to Jersey City. Heights.
Where is this? Minneapolis?
I know everyone’s heard it before but we really gotta cool it with these glass monstrosities. I rode by there the other day and that entire area north of grand street is disgusting now.
From the renderings it looks like most of the building will be demolished and only a small part of it left, to be surrounded by glass towers. Am I accurate? I walk by this property from time to time- it looks a lot bigger from the ground than what is represented here.
oh jeez. i totally forgot about this thread haahhahah just re-read tho, good read! everyone has great points.
i agree with ken that a single person can make it on 40k a month making certain concessions. and i agree with everyone else, including myself, that nyc calling certain housing ‘affordable’ is totally out of wack with reality.
if i was a smart person…
1.) i wouldnt have a dog (but whatever, we actually saved each others lives a while back and there’s no splitting us up now.)
2.) i’d move to parkchester apts in the bronx or that vanderveer projects in brooklyn that was turned into flatbush gardens now… both places i could find a studio or 1 bedroom for like 900 a month. pocket and save the money id be saving in rent. maybe save up for a deposit to buy something SUPER modest in a few years
the list can go on and on and on and on. hells i could have stuck it out in harlem paying 800 a month for a gigantic bedroom in a big share like i was, all utilities and stuff included, but i had to make a lifestyle choice. i was tired of living in the hood. i grew up in the projects as a kid and it’s not something i want to go back to. so if that means spending more than 50 percent of my income on rent alone, so be it. it’s a peace of mind i can deal with. most people in the hood are paying WAY more than 50 percent of their income on housing and i bet most people want OUT! but cant get out. i saw an opportunity to get out and took it. if it means all my clothes come from peoples stoop sales and salvation armies, i dont care.
withouth some severe divine intervention, i will eventually wind up back in the hood, but not as long as i still have my dog. when i say hood i dont necessarily mean a notoriously bad neighborhood, i mean a place where the quality of life of things i need and find necessary are severely lacking, and im not talking about frou frou grocery stores and wine bars. im just talking simple stuff like safety in the middle of the night walking home, or not getting harassed by a bunch of teenagers for having a male pitbull who squats when he pees kind of thing! it’s all relative, we all have our comfort zones, and right now i feel very comfortable where i am, something that in 32 years of my life i have never felt that often. so i dont care how much my rent is right now. it’s healing to me.
sorry that was slightly off topic. gnite
*rob*
oh man, i missed the best foodfight of the day.
i’ll say it, benson’s BG condo is a piece of shite that we can collectively shudder and sneer at. probably worse than fedders cause the central air makes so much noise it’s technically not up to nyc building code. in fact, i hear they have to rake the snow off the roof and use space heaters to warm the place. oh and the windows don’t fit the casings. and it’s really really ugly. and the landscaping is, like, so barf me a river.
I really should do more proof-reading before I hit the “post” key.
I meant to write the following:
SHE shot right back at me: “$25,000!! I could buy a house around here for that amount!”
“You need high margins to live here as a person too. $40k goes way farther in the south and it does here. ”
Indeed.
I always tell this story to folks who talk about manufacturing in NYC.
As you can see from my profile, I am involved in the sale of high-tech industrial components. About 12 years ago, I had to go visit the factory of one my customers, located in South Carolina. They were damaging our component when they were installing it in their system, and I had to find out the source of the problem.
I was instructing the factory operator, who was a young woman about 25 years old or so. I told her: “Please be careful in handling our component”. I pointed to our component (which is about the size of a cigarette box) and said, “You see that box, it costs $25,000, the price of a car”. You shot right back at me: “$25,000!! I could buy a house around here for that amount!” and she wasn’t joking. Obviously she was talking about a modest home, probably a trailer home, but a home of her own nonetheless.
Think about that. $25,000 for a home, and this was only 12 years ago.
Today’s COTD talks about a three bedroom apartment on the 4th floor of a walk-up, with no parking spot, for over $800K.
Large-scale manaufacturing in NYC? Never again.