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https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/11/19/cirrus-lcor-pitch-new-pacific-park-plan/
Pacific Park developers pitch new vision for long-delayed megadevelopment
“Contours of a plan” call for total of 9,000 units
By Kathryn Brenzel
November 19, 2025
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Developers on Tuesday laid out the “contours of a plan” for seven remaining sites at Pacific Park in Brooklyn, describing a development that would add thousands of housing units to what was previously approved.
During a public workshop, executives from Cirrus Real Estate Partners and LCOR, the project’s new development team, pitched a plan that would result in taller, but fewer towers, and ultimately net 9,000 housing units for the megadevelopment (including those already built). The previous plan called for a total of 6,430 units.
If this version is pursued, the development would include five towers, instead of six, on sites that will require a platform to be built over active train tracks between Pacific Street and Atlantic Avenue. Density from the eliminated tower, dubbed B8 and located at the corner of Carlton and Atlantic avenues, would be shifted to the other sites. Meanwhile, B8 would become green space.
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The total development, formerly called Atlantic Yards and first proposed over two decades ago, would result in 9.6 million square feet, compared to the previously planned 8 million. The average height of the project’s buildings would be 550 feet, instead of 350 feet.
The proposals are not final, and any changes will require amendments to the state’s general project plan, a method outside the city’s land use process that lays out the parameters of a project. That will be a separate process from the public workshops.
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The changes, according to the developers, would speed up construction of housing, while also ensuring that more open space is part of the plan.
Cirrus’ Joseph McDonnell explained that shifting residential density from B8, which presented logistical challenges, would lead to faster housing construction. Most of that square footage would be moved to solid ground, rather than atop a platform. In other words, to areas where it is easier to build.
“This is a very constrained site. We’re not here to sugarcoat it,” McDonnell said. “We’re here to take what we’ve been given, and it’s imperfect, it’s an imperfect plan from a very imperfect development, and try to achieve more affordability and more open space.”
The development team, he said, is guided by wanting to build “more affordable housing sooner,” to add more contiguous open space and to ensure the affordable housing is available to a range of income levels. Given those concepts, he said it may make sense not to build on B8.
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The team also proposed shifting development rights from a public plaza in front of Barclays — once envisioned as a Frank Gehry-designed office tower called “Miss Brooklyn” — to build two towers on what is known as site 5, across the street from Barclays and currently home to a P.C. Richard & Son and a former Modell’s that was recently converted into a youth basketball training facility. Tuesday’s workshop was held at the latter.
The towers on site 5 would rise a maximum of 775 feet, higher than the previously approved 620 feet, though even taller towers were previously contemplated. The developers are thinking of focusing the income levels of the affordable units on moderate- to middle-income tenants, with rents capped at levels affordable to those earning at most 130 percent of the area median income. The previously approved rents were affordable to those earning between 40 percent and 160 percent of the AMI.
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