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November 30, 2007
Mr. Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Paper
By Adam F. Hutton
Bruce Ratner is planning to build the city’s tallest residential tower — a whopping 1,000-foot skyscraper that would dwarf the 512-foot Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, Brooklyn’s tallest.
But as with Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development, the secret, closed-door deal is already casting a shadow.
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Earlier in the day, a Ratner spokesman said by e-mail that the drawing “was quite old and not indicative of current plans.” But the spokesman refused to say what the current plans are.Secrecy is nothing new for Ratner. As at Atlantic Yards, Ratner is partnering with a public agency — in this case, City University of New York — in a process that will not undergo the city’s rigorous land-use review process. Current zoning allows Ratner to build as high as he wants — but neither his company nor CUNY officials would say how high that is.
Read the full article to find out more about what we don't know about Ratner's latest high-rise proposal.
Posted by lumi at November 30, 2007 5:52 AM