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Old Posted Mar 21, 2013, 9:44 PM
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Part of Domino site to get sweet new tenants
The developer will open an urban farm, bicycle course, community reading center and more at the 1.3-acre Williamsburg plot where it hopes someday build a big new tower.


By Matt Chaban
March 21, 2013

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Construction on Two Tree Management's 3-million-square-foot residential/office/retail project at the Domino sugar refinery site in Williamsburg is still a few years off but on Thursday the developer announced some placeholders. It will be bring an urban farm, a bicycle course, a community reading center and a variety of local venders to a 55,000-square-foot plot on Kent Avenue, one of the five parcels where the company plans to build new towers some day.

"Two Trees is committed to Williamsburg for the long haul, and we want to be able to give back to the community as we prepare to build at the Domino sugar site," Jed Walentas, principal at Two Trees Management, said in a release. "The operators we've selected will be welcoming residents of all ages to this new public open space for biking, reading, relaxing, yoga classes and more."

How very Brooklyn. The developer decided in January that it would bring temporary uses to a corner of its 11-acre site, so that it can serve as a community amenity rather than the liability it would have been if it remained an empty lot.

Two Trees will open its site in May, on Kent Avenue between South Third and South Fourth streets, with operations at least through the fall—around the time Two Trees hopes to get approval from the City Council for its project. Whether or not it will return the following spring, or if there will be construction crews in its place, is up to the developer.
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