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March 18, 2006
Downtown glitz jumps Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn Papers:
Ground has been broken on a 40-story luxury condo building on Myrtle Avenue directly across Flatbush Avenue Extension from Forest City Ratner’s Metrotech office campus.
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“I want to know who wants Brooklyn to look like Manhattan,” asked Vincent Battista, president of the Institute of Design and Construction located one block south on Flatbush Avenue Extension. Battista has opposed the Downtown Brooklyn Plan since its creators threatened to use the power of eminent domain to demolish his college to build a park.“And the question is,” he added, “who will be able to afford it when it does?”
Posted by amy at March 18, 2006 10:14 AM