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March 12, 2006
Multi-Tiered Wal-Mart Becoming Reality
theboxtank:
3rd year architecture students at NYIT investigated the multi-level big-box in Matthew Dockery's Big Box vs Big Apple: Wal-Mart in New York City design studio last fall. The premise of the studio is based on "a hybrid public / private venture designed to allow New York City to reap the benefits of low-cost merchandise without suffering the negative impacts of Big-Box stores on public space, local business and the environment." The site of the project lies adjacent to Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn Atlantic Yards, the Frank Gehry masterplanned mixed-use development at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and 4th Avenue in downtown Brooklyn.
Posted by amy at March 12, 2006 11:12 AM