Rendering Out, Permits Approved for Spitzer's ODA-Designed Waterfront Mega-Project
Add Eliot Spitzer’s Kedem winery project to the list of mega-projects coming to Brooklyn. The long-stalled project is moving ahead and the ex-governor, now helming family business Spitzer Enterprises, today released renderings for three rental towers at 420-444 Kent Avenue on the south Williamsburg waterfront. Permits filed in December were approved earlier this month, as The New York…
Add Eliot Spitzer’s Kedem winery project to the list of mega-projects coming to Brooklyn. The long-stalled project is moving ahead and the ex-governor, now helming family business Spitzer Enterprises, today released renderings for three rental towers at 420-444 Kent Avenue on the south Williamsburg waterfront.
Permits filed in December were approved earlier this month, as The New York Times was the first to note, so the development could break ground soon. But first, the property will need to be cleared. A demo permit for an old low-rise building on the grounds was issued last month, according to public records.
There will be 856 apartments total, according to the Times, and 20 percent of them will be affordable. The design has changed dramatically, and details have changed over the years, with more apartments planned now than before — tipping it into mega-project territory — but the project adheres to a zoning waiver approved under a previous owner.
The new rendering shows glassy towers and appears to be made of assemblages of boxes, a characteristic theme of ODA’s work. We think it’s a great improvement on the more mundane design of the previous rendering, pictured below.
The tower at 420 Kent will have 18 stories with 270 units and 4,884 square feet of stores on the ground floor, according to a new-building permit. The other towers will rise 24 stories, according to the Times.
The sale of the property for $165,000,000 closed in February, according to public records.
The site was formerly home to the Kedem winery and is directly across the street from luxury condo and townhouse development the Oosten, in the heart of Hasidic Williamsburg. This mega-project is not far from the 2,300-unit Domino Sugar Refinery development, on the other side of the Williamsburg bridge, also in south Williamsburg.
Spitzer Charges Into His Family’s Real Estate Business [NY Times] GMAP
ODA Files Permits for Long-Stalled Waterfront Site in South Williamsburg [Brownstoner]
What Could Sprout at Stalled Kedem Winery Site in South Williamsburg [Brownstoner]
Top rendering by ODA; rendering below via Vos Iz Neiaas; tax photo via PropertyShark
The walling in of the waterfront continues! we need a re-zoning for flood zone A or eminent domain!
300 feet to the waterfront should have designated to park ant potential wetlands! But greed and corruption always wins in NYC over common sense! I used to like Spitzer, but fuck him!
If you’re a politician in NY, you only have the choice who’s bitch you are: Real Estate’s or Wall Street’s…(or you own your own real estate empire, then you can bitch yourself around…)
Stop privatizing all these humongous windfall profits!!! And then complain that you don’t have the money to buy back land (for the promised Bushwick Park extension for example, or for childcare facilities or schools.)
BEFORE any new rezoning, NYC should buy all land, if necessary invoke eminent domain and compensate the landowners for the current market value.
Alternatively, NYC could split the difference and collect a 50% windfall profit tax!
Instead they allow raping the waterfront for a sliver of “affordable housing” and tremendous tax breaks!
Two thoughts:
“And other developers in the area say Mr. Spitzer will need to get the highest rents for his project to make sense, given the price he paid for the land.”
google maps says 13 minute walk to the J train.
A ferry is not a subway. If you want to dive into ferries vs. subway, check out 2nd Ave Sagas. Basically, they are too expensive to operate compared to the number of people they serve.