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    City Planning Sends Greenpoint Waterfront Developments Proposals to the Council

    Rezoning/Special Permit  •  Greenpoint, Brooklyn
    Rendering of Greenpoint Landing Development. Image Credit: Handel Architects.

    Rendering of Greenpoint Landing Development. Image Credit: Handel Architects.

    Large Greenpoint Developments, if approved, would produce over 1,400 housing units. On October 30, 2013, the City Planning Commission unanimously voted to approve two major mixed-use developments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: Greenpoint Landing and 77 Commercial Street. Both projects would allow the City to fulfill commitments to affordable housing and public open space that it made during the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning. The 2005 Rezoning of nearly 200 blocks authorized the transformation of Greenpoint’s low-density manufacturing sector along the waterfront north of the Williamsburg Bridge into a strip of high-density residential towers of mixed use-residential space. (read more…)

    Tags : 77 Commercial Street, City Planning Commission, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Greenpoint Landing, Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning
    Date:12/09/2013
    Category : City Planning Commission
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