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December 20, 2006
Silver backs revised Atlantic Yards plan
Crain's NY Business
By Erik Engquist
Forest City Ratner Cos. has revised its Atlantic Yards project -- including trimming the project's signature tower -- to win the support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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Forest City agreed early Wednesday to reduce the height of Miss Brooklyn, a proposed 620-foot office tower, so that it will not rise higher than Brooklyn's tallest building, the nearby 512-foot Williamsburgh Savings Bank building. The developer will also change 200 of the market-rate condominium apartments into "affordable" units, and will also build 400 to 800 more elsewhere in the borough.The concessions fall far short of what critics of Atlantic Yards have sought. Four local Assembly members had sent letters to Mr. Silver asking him to delay today's PACB vote so that more substantial changes could be negotiated. But other Brooklyn members of Mr. Silver's caucus are ardent supporters of the project and wish to see it proceed without further delay.
NoLandGrab: Bloomberg is reporting that the new Miss Brooklyn will be, get this, 511 ft. tall, making it one foot shorter than the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building.
Posted by lumi at December 20, 2006 9:59 PM