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July 28, 2006
Things looking up in Brooklyn, if you’re a skyscraper
The Brooklyn Papers, Editorial
By Gersh Kuntzman
The Downtown Brooklyn Plan — an upzoning and condemnation law passed two years ago — is finally bearing young with at least eight buildings on the drawing board for just a short stretch of Flatbush Avenue Extension from the Manhattan Bridge to Willoughby Street.
Check out the list of buildings (a majority of which are luxury condos) at different stages on the drawing board. They're all pre-approved as part of the Downtown Brooklyn Plan and in the pipeline before Bruce Ratner receives the official nod for Atlantic Yards.
NoLandGrab: Your friends and neighbors are gonna freak when they wake up and realize what the City's plan has in store for Downtown Brooklyn.
Don't forget to tell them that the Mad Overdeveloper, Bruce Ratner, has 23 Williamsburgh Savings Bank Towers worth of development planned for the railyards and Prospect Heights, which would make that little corner of Brooklyn the densest residential community in the nation.
Posted by lumi at July 28, 2006 6:45 AM