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August 6, 2009
Brooklyn’s Tallest Is Back In Atlantic Yards Plan
File this under "news you can disabuse" — Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Dennis Holt scoured the latest Atlantic Yards "Project Documents" and declared that "the tallest building in Brooklyn is back on the site," since developer Bruce Ratner's announcement that the signature tower would cap off at one foot shorter than the previous tallest building in Brooklyn didn't buy him any friends.
The arrival of the “2009 Modified General Project Plan” with all of its 45 pages and 7 exhibits is also of more than passing interest.
It requires study, especially the small print, of which there is much, and in reading the small print one discovers on Exhibit C, with no emphasis whatsoever, that the tallest building in Brooklyn is back on the site.
Building 1, which used to be called “Miss Brooklyn,” the visual keystone to the entire project, is to be 620 feet tall.
Atlantic Yards Report, No, Brooklyn’s Tallest Is Not Back In Atlantic Yards Plan
Norman Oder explains why you can't believe everything you read, especially when the source is the credibility-challenged Empire State Development Corporation and project promoter Dennis Holt:
So, why does the document state 620 feet as the maximum when Forest City Ratner has already committed to a downsizing?
Because changing the height might represent a material change in the project, a change that the Empire State Development Corporation does not want to admit.
Posted by lumi at August 6, 2009 5:41 AM