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65 Commercial Street Update
MTA Ready to Leave 65 Commercial
What’s Going on at 65 Commercial?
Progress at 65 Commercial
Not a Park: 65 Commercial Street
8 May 2013
- Ugliest, Scariest, Most Horrible [✜]
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The last thing Greenpoint ever wanted was a wall of buildings. This is the ugliest, scariest, most horrible plan.
It would have been great if all these people cared back in 2004 or so when all of this was getting approved. Olechowski is right - there was a lot of activism within the community to get a better plan out of the rezoning (going back to the mid 1990s), but what was approved is what was approved.
And except for the height of 77 Commercial, just about everything here is what was approved in 2005. And the height of 77 Commercial has an actual community benefit attached to it - a new park next door at 65 Commercial. Whether that is a trade-off worth making is another question.
Greenpoint Landing Lands Tonight
28 August 2012
- City Seeks Developer to Finance Parks on Greenpoint Waterfront [✜]
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The Daily News is a bit confused about the air-rights sale at 65 Commercial Street.
The sale of the air rights themselves is not a "new plan" - it was one of the points of agreement between the Bloomberg administration and the City Council back in 2005. What is new is that those same points of agreement earmarked the funds from the sale of the air rights was supposed to go towards a $2 million tenant legal fund and a $10 "waterfront affordable housing and infrastructure fund". As I understand it, the tenant legal fund was funded by the City a few years back, when it became clear that the air rights transfer was not imminent. But I don't believe the infrastructure fund was ever funded.
The headline of the News, and some of the quotes from "a developer who asked to remain anonymous" in the article also imply that this is a wide open RFP. It is actually quite a narrow one - there are only two developers who can reasonably use the air rights from 65 Commercial, and they are the owners of the adjacent properties to either side: 77 Commercial Street to the east and the massive Park Tower site to the west. A small market, indeed.
Transmitter Park and the 2005 Rezoning
14 August 2012
- City Attempts to Develop Long-Stalled Greenpoint Park [✜]
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The City has issued an RFP for the sale of the 65 Commercial Street air rights - which could be an important step in the process of breaking the log jam over the City's commitment to turn this property into a public park.