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August 16, 2006

378-82 Baltic

The developer Kwong T. Seung has broken ground on an 11 story - 119ft - monster on Baltic btw Smith/Hoyt. Sure to become an icon of everything wrong with aesthetics & scale in South Brooklyn's devolpment boom, as well as a fine critique of the Planning Department's need for a design review board that looks at more than just the engineering specs. This beast is set too include 49 basement parking spaces & 36 dwelling units. The lot originally sold for a paltry $9 million. Brownstoner covered the news of this project back in May, and some of the comments illuminate the conversational famine of Pro/Con 'development', leading to a real lack of discussion surrounding the Developer-As-of-Right and Growth-as-of-Right attitude the city has taken to the reinvestment of Brooklyn. Perhaps a qualitative perspective could bring a more nuanced approach to the pingponged Property Rights vs NIMBY's . Anyways, save any sea change in the renderings or plans for the site, Transfer is sure to follow any smell as it rises nearly 60 feet above its neighbors.

Check this Over at Curbed. Totally tell me again that the Lower East Side will keep its character when all the towers are finished?

Posted by jmarston at August 16, 2006 04:26 PM

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Posted by: baby at September 11, 2006 02:58 PM