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October 24, 2006
Coming soon to Prospect Heights: a large suburban parking lot?
BrooklynSpeaks
One of the most troubling aspects of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan is their proposal to demolish existing buildings on the project site to construct a 944 space surface parking lot and a staging area for construction. According to the plan, the lot would be the entire block encompassed by Vanderbilt and Carlton Avenues, and Pacific Street and Dean Street. FCR says the lot will be “temporary.” In the best case scenario, temporary means from the start of construction until 2016, when residential buildings will be constructed on the lot. In the worst case scenario, if economic conditions change and the second phase of the project doesn’t materialize, temporary means permanent.
There's additional coverage at StreetsBlog ("They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot"), which promotes the BrooklynSpeaks principles for those who "are in favor of the "Atlantic Yards" project and want to see the project have a good chance of succeeding without destroying the neighborhoods all around it" (read Marty Markowtiz and City Councilmember Bill de Blasio).
Posted by lumi at October 24, 2006 9:03 AM