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https://nypost.com/2025/06/01/busine...up-in-gowanus/

$1B residential project kicks off in Gowanus — as ‘starchitect’ reveals vision for 1,000-unit rental tower



By Steve Cuozzo
June 1, 2025

BIG is back – and better — in Gowanus.

The developers of 175 Third St. tapped Bjarke Ingels’ much-in-demand architectural firm to design their planned, 1,000-unit, rental apartment tower – and it’s nothing like BIG’s earlier concept for previous site-owner Aby Rosen’s RFR Realty.

The new 175 Third St. in the burgeoning residential neighborhood from Charney Companies and Tavros will stand 27 stories encompassing over 1 million square feet – the fifth building by the partners on four different sites on the Gowanus Canal’s eastern side.

The images on this page reveal Ingels’ new vision for the first time, which the architect described as “stacked blocks of cascading concrete volumes, cascading down toward the canal waterfront.”

“We had our eyes on the site forever,” Charney Companies principal Sam Charney said. “But someone else always owned it” until “the price finally came down [to $164 million] and we knew this was the time.” The purchase closed in May.

When RFR bailed, it was expected that Charney and Tavros would choose a different architect. Instead, they liked Ingels’ new concept the best of the proposals they solicited from a half-dozen “starchitects.”