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Living in a brownfi eld
City relaunches Gowanus Green development push
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SHEA
RUBENSTEIN
Founder
Jewish Community Council
of Marine Park
LENUE (LENNY)
SINGLETARY
VP/Director of Government
Affairs
Brooklyn Hospital & Chair
of Community Board 2
ANTHONY &
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Co-Owners
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DR. RONALD
C. JACKSON
Vice President for Student Affairs
Brooklyn College
NOEL CORDERO
Business Banking
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VP of External Affairs
SHAWN
V. AUSTIN
Senior Vice President
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Personal Injury Lawyer
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Principal
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Founding President
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NEW DATE
Thursday, January 23th, 2020
The Real Word
STEPHEN
CHIAINO
Partner
Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman,
Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf
& Carone, LLP.
TONY DANIELS
Cycle Architecture + Planning
KHARI
EDWARDS
One Brooklyn Health System
SHLOMI
BAGDADI
President
Tri State Commercial Realty
Investment Sales Professional
DR. LAWRENCE
BROWN
CEO
START Treatment & Recovery
RALPH
BUMBACA
TD Bank
MANUEL
MANSYLLA
Principal
Totem
BEN ESNER
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
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GILLETTE
Ginsburg & Misk
DREW
GOLDSMITH
Vice President, Acquisitions
& Asset Management
Olnick Organization
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JEAN-NOEL
The Real Word
EDWARD L. LAI
AVP Business Development
Bensonhurst Center for
Rehabilitation and Healthcare
EDWARD W
SCHLOEMAN
Chairman/Founder
Operation Warrior Shield
DEVIN SHOMAKER
Founder and Managing Partner
Rooftop Reds
JOHN WRIGHT
Principal
The Wright Group
DR. MATHEW
O. JONES
BKLYNCardio
JOSHUA RABI
Founder
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RANDY PEERS
President & CEO
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
By Kevin Duggan
Beooklyn Paper
The city is moving ahead
with plans to turn a publiclyowned
polluted brownfield
site along the banks of the
Gowanus Canal into a large
residential development that
could bring some 2,000 new
neighbors to the area.
City agencies and a cadre
of developers plan to rezone
the long-vacant lot at Smith
and Fifth streets to remove
the designation of the site as a
public place — and allow for
more than 900 new residential
units, most of which will be
below market rate, reps told
a Community Board 6 subcommittee
on Monday.
The project, dubbed Gowanus
Green, will see builders
erect a cluster of residential
towers on the six-acre site
— ranging between nine and
28 stories tall, according to
reps, who said the scheme also
calls for a five-story school
at the corner of Fifth and
Hoyt Streets and commercial
spaces on ground level
along Smith Street.
At the center of the development,
officials plan to
extend Luquer Street as a
so-called “shared street” —
featuring a one-way street
for cars, a bike path, two
flanking sidewalks, and a
swale trail.
A walkway will bisect the
street and have seating and
rain gardens leading to Fifth
Street, with raised paths atop
marsh gardens, seating areas,
and communal gathering
spaces.
A small plaza on the site’s
south-east corner will face
out to a new 1.5-acre park
on the banks of the noxious
Gowanus Canal.
The Department of Housing
and Preservation’s preliminary
plans call for the
creation of some 950 units,
according to spokesman Simon
Kawitzky, with threequarters
priced below market
rate, targeting residents
with an annual income ranging
from 30 to 120 percent
of the Area Median Income
The city plans to develop almost 1,000 units of housing on the current brownfield
site known as Public Place in Gowanus.
Photo by Department Department of Housing Preservation and Development
for a family of four — which
is $106,700.
These plans are still subject
to change, and the agency
will seek more input from the
community before officials
file an application at a later
date for the city’s lengthy land
use review process, according
to spokeswoman Juliet
Pierre-Antoine.
The city agency — along
with developers Hudson Companies,
the Bluestone Organization,
Jonathan Rose Companies,
and local nonprofit
Fifth Avenue Committee —
previously pushed for building
residential developments
on the heavily-polluted former
gas works site in 2008,
but those plans were stalled
after the federal Environmental
Protection Agency declared
the Gowanus Canal
a Superfund site in 2010.
The city, and the same
quartet of building companies,
revived the effort because
the timing and details of
the federal cleanup have become
more clear, according to
Department of City Planning
spokesman Joe Marvilli.
The site used to house
a Citizen Gas Works plant
which was decommissioned
in the 1960s — before the
city seized the site in 1975
via condemnation.
The gas company later became
part of what is now National
Grid, and the utilities
company in the summer of
this year started cleaning the
soil — which is heavily polluted
with coal tar, according
to the local gadfly blog Pardon
Me For Asking.
Carrol Gardener Katia
Kelly — the blog’s author
— voiced concerns that the
planners should make sure
they know the extent of the
pollution before planning for
the large development.
“You plan on bringing
1,000 units of housing on one
of the most polluted sites in
the entire city and you don’t
know where the coal tar is concentrated.
I can tell you where
it’s concentrated, it’s exactly
concentrated where you plan
on putting the school,” she
said. “You are all showing up
in your suits and you don’t
know where it is, shame on
you, shame on you.”
One of the builders conceded
that National Grid was
focusing its remediation efforts
on the northern half of
the plot, which includes the
proposed school — but promised
that the builders would
go above and beyond the National
Grid’s effort.
“We will be doing additional
testing above and beyond
what National Grid has
been testing and beginning
their remediation on,” said Jay
Marcus, the head of the Fifth
Avenue Committee.
Another local worried that
the influx of people would
overburden public transit,
especially the nearby Carroll
Street F and G-train
station.
“Is there new transit being
provided, because it doesn’t
work now and with all these
new people, there’s absolutely
no way the transit system as it
currently exists can move all
these people out of the neighborhood
to a job,” said the audience
member, who declined
to give his name.
A spokesman for the Department
of City Planning
said that the city will study
the impact on public transportation
system as part of
the neighborhood-wide rezoning.
“That will be something
that we share and we come
back to the community about
and any potential mitigations
measures that we might have,”
said Jonathan Keller.
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