Posted May 16, 2025, 12:53 AM
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https://www.archpaper.com/2025/05/tower-tenberke-downtown-brooklyn/
A 72-story, all-electric tower by TenBerke is slated for Downtown Brooklyn
By Daniel Jonas Roche
May 12, 2025
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In case you hadn’t noticed, Downtown Brooklyn is booming. When Brooklyn Paramount opened last year, it brought thousands of music goers inside a historic venue just across the street from a new, gleaming supertall by SHoP Architects. Alloy Block, and its accompanying passive house school by ARO, further bolstered Downtown Brooklyn’s burgeoning skyline as has 11 Hoyt by Studio Gang.
Not far from these recent projects at 395 Flatbush Avenue, where a 1970s office tower today resides, a new skyscraper designed by TenBerke is poised to become the borough’s second tallest building. Senior principal Noah Biklen is the project lead at TenBerke.
The goal is to replace the dated, 7-story office building with a 72-story, all-electric tower that contains 1,200 residential units. Dencityworks Architecture is also on the project team.
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The developers Rabina and Park Tower Group said between 25 and 30 percent of the 1,200 units will be permanently affordable through the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) program, meaning these flats will be for households earning an average of 60 to 80 percent Area Median Income (AMI).
Josh Rabina, president and CEO of Rabina, said the overall goal is replacing “the dark and outdated office building at the corner of Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue with a light and airy mixed-use development.”
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In elevation, the tower portion of the building will be setback from the podium, helping reduce shadow lines. Portions of the existing structure will be retained and reused in the new design, the team said.
All in all, the tower will reach 840 feet. The rezoning necessary to make the tower’s height possible is thanks to City of Yes.
Ground-floor retail spaces will be clad in pre-cast concrete with a reddish hue. This is evocative of the brick masonry on the upper portion of the structure, according to documentation submitted to the Public Design Commission last March.
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