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June 17, 2009
What happened to the two "central" and "critical" towers closest to the transit hub? Never mind
Atlantic Yards Report
MISSING: "Miss Brooklyn," the "Urban Room," and Tower at "Site V"...
The demise of Frank Gehry's arena block design, and the realignment of the planned arena from a diagonal to a north-south placement casts significant doubt on the future of Building 1 (aka Miss Brooklyn), the office tower (with attached Urban Room, now missing from renderings, below) once destined for the western wedge between Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, as well as the tower at the western point of the footprint, Site 5.
They once were "central" and "critical" to the project and thus, presumably, to the Empire State Development Corporation's (ESDC) approval, so we'll have to see what emerges when the ESDC releases a revision of the Modified General Project Plan (GPP) at its meeting June 23.
Forest City Ratner and the ESDC should be asked about the fate of both Building 1 and the tower at Site 5, the site now occupied by P.C. Richard and Modell's, bounded by Pacific Street and Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth avenues. Neither appear in the latest renderings of the arena block.
Posted by lumi at June 17, 2009 5:11 AM