TWO FOR TWO
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Two Trees Management
is relaunching its
massive mixed-use development
project along
the waterfront in Williamsburg
— promising
to bring two enormous
towers with over
1,000 housing units, offi
ce space, a pool, and a
beach to the northern
Brooklyn shoreline.
The Dumbo-based developer
fi rst announced
the project in late 2019
after they purchased the
former Con Edison plant
on River Street for $150
million.
Prior to closing the
deal, the company began
hosting closed meetings
with locals starting
in June of 2019, before
giving presentations to
the community board in
January of 2020, and ultimately
halting public
info sessions as the pandemic
swept through the
city in March.
The fi rm launched a
new website earlier this
year about the project
— which is now dubbed
“River Ring” — and has
met with neighboring residents
in recent weeks as
they prepare to push their
proposal through the
city’s lengthy Uniform
Land Use Review Procedure
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(ULURP) that’s
required to change the
land’s designation from
manufacturing to allow
for residential development.
Two Trees is aiming
to complete the roughly
seven-month ULURP by
the end of this year, when
Mayor Bill de Blasio
leaves offi ce and elections
shake up the City Council,
according to spokesman
David Lombino.
Since it was fi rst unveiled,
Two Trees has
made alterations to the
plan — including scaling
up the taller tower on the
southern side to 710 feet
instead of 650 feet, while
reducing the north tower
to 560 feet, rather than 600
feet.
Designed by high-profi
le landscape architects
James Corner Field Operations
and architecture
fi rm Bjarke Ingels Group,
the taller of the pair will
be just 10 feet shy of the
tallest building in Kings
County, which is currently
Brooklyn Point in
the borough’s downtown.
The developer also
added 50 more housing
units than originally
proposed, now totaling
1,050 apartments across
the two buildings — with
about a quarter of those,
or 263 apartments, being
earmarked as “affordable.”
Most of those 236 units
will be marketed at 60
percent of the federallydefi
ned Area Median Income,
with rents ranging
from $909 monthly
for a studio, to $1,366 for
a two-bedroom. Some 27
units will be priced at
40 percent AMI, making
those rents range from
$567 for a studio to $854
for a two-bed.
In addition to the
housing units, the interior
of the building will
contain offi ce space, retail,
and a new YMCA
with a pool. Renderings
show new arcades at the
ground fl oor of the two
buildings, which slope
down and some more
green space at the Metropolitan
Avenue entrance.
Outside, the proposal
would include a 2.9 acre
waterfront park that offers
two sandy beaches
and looping esplanades
around an extra 3 acres
of sheltered space in the
water.
Two Trees says the
newly-restored shore with
its marshes, tidal pools,
and breakwaters will create
a resilient shoreline
that can protect more
than 500 inland properties
from fl ooding.
The complex will also
have its own microgrid to
lessen demand on the Con
Edison system and water
reuse infrastructure
to capture and purify the
site’s own wastewater, reducing
discharges into
the city sewer network,
according to the website.
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