Rendering of 1050 Pacific Street in Brooklyn. Image Credit: CPC.

The new building is intended to revitalize a largely vacant block along Pacific Street in Brooklyn. On May 2, 2019, the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises voted to approve a rezoning of the western portion of a block bounded by Pacific Street to the north, Dean Street to the south, Franklin Avenue to the east, and Classon Avenue to the west in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The applicant proposed to rezone the area from a manufacturing district, M1-1, to a mixed-use residential and manufacturing district, M1-4/R7A. The rezoning will facilitate a new eight-story development at 1050 Pacific Street with 103 residential units and ground floor commercial space. The development is located a block away from 1010 Pacific Street and is also part of Brooklyn Community Board 8 and Department of City Planning’s M Crown study. (read more…)

Rendering of proposed 14-story development at 1921 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Image Credit: CPC.

The project will be financed under an HPD program that requires low and extremely low income affordability and set-asides for the formerly homeless. On March 27, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted to approve an application that will bring a 14-story affordable mixed-use development with 235 residential units to 1921 Atlantic Avenue in the Bedford/Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The application was brought by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in conjunction with DTF Atlantic, a joint venture between two developers, Dabar Development Partners and Thorobird Companies. City Planning held a public hearing on the application on February 27, 2019. (read more…)

Proposal would rezone manufacturing district and facilitate affordable housing on Culver El site. On August 25, the City Planning Commission approved the Department of City Planning and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s Culver El Proposal. The proposal would rezone a seven-block portion of Borough Park, Brooklyn, generally bounded by 36th Street to the north, 39th Street to the south, Old Utrecht Road to the east, and 12th Avenue to the west. The plan would facilitate the development of a 68-unit housing project on two narrow, City-owned parcels formerly occupied by the elevated BMT Culver Shuttle line. The parcels are located on the south side of 37th Street between 12th and 14th Avenues.

The rezoning area was historically used for manufacturing, but is now predominantly characterized by residential uses consisting of two-story attached and detached homes. The plan would establish a new Special Mixed Use District and replace the area’s M1-1 and M1-2 manufacturing districts with M1-2/ R6A and M1-2/R6B districts to reflect the neighborhood’s current development. Planning would extend an existing R5 district south to include a portion of the block running from 36th and 37th Streets, between 12th and 13th Avenues. The proposal would also rezone the block bounded by 36th and 37th Streets, and Old Utrecht Road and 13th Avenue from M1-2 to C4-2A. This block is occupied by the Bergament Outlet department store. (read more…)