NEW YORK | Pacific Park Brooklyn (Atlantic Yards) | 15+ Towers

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550 Vanderbilt:



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461 Dean Street:






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Record by Always E-mail, 2015-10-01 15:49:18 by AtlanticYards WebCam, on Flickr

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From the webcam(s):

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Superstructure has reached the eighth floor at the rapidly rising 550 Vanderbilt, the first of four condo towers to be built at the Pacific Park mega development. Developed by Greenland Forest City Partners and designed by COOKFOX Architects, the 17-story tower will offer 278 luxury condo units ranging from studios to four-bedrooms.

Located at the eastern most fringe of the larger Pacific Park development, the massing of the building references the existing structures on Dean Street, matching their 60' street wall. The 8-acre future park, designed by Thomas Balsley Associates, will be a feature element for the tower, with residences and amenity spaces designed to showcase the park views. One such amenity, an eighth floor landscaped roof terrace, will offer residents views to the park and the Brooklyn skyline. Some units will also feature private roof terraces in addition to the larger communal roof deck. Other amenities in the building include a resident's lounge, library, children's playroom, private event space, and a fitness center.

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535 Carlton Avenue


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Pacific Park’s 17-Story Condo Tops Out At 550 Vanderbilt Avenue

It’s been 12 long years since the Pacific Park megaproject was first announced as Atlantic Yards, and the Prospect Heights development hit a major milestone yesterday with the topping out of 550 Vanderbilt Avenue, a 17-story condo building. PR reps for the project sent along shots of the concrete shell that’s risen at the corner of Dean Street, taken by photographer Max Touhey.

Designed by COOKFOX, the building will hold 278 apartments, ranging from studios to four-bedrooms. The condos hit the market in June, starting at $625,000 for a studio and going all the way up to $6,860,000 for the four-bedroom, 4.5-bath penthouse with a sprawling private terrace. The structure also towers over the low-slung brownstones and row houses of Prospect Heights, offering lovely views from the top floor.

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[NYguy]

http://rew-online.com/2015/12/04/fcr...50-vanderbilt/

FCR, GREENLAND USA TOP OUT FIRST PACIFIC PARK BROOKLYN APARTMENT TOWER, 550 VANDERBILT

[pico44]

Cook Fox are extraordinarily competent architects. Always reassuring to see their names attached to a project. Similar to Moriis Adjmi.

[RobEss]

Market rate housing gets built at lightning speed while the affordable units continue to molder. No surprises here.

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Vanderbilt Tower Tops Out First at Pacific Park, Brooklyn’s Biggest Mega Project

Construction is proceeding at a rapid pace at Greenland Forest City Partners’ 550 Vanderbilt Avenue, part of the massive Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards development.

You may have thought the modular tower known as B2 or 461 Dean Street would have already reached its full height by now, since it was the first building to break ground, back in 2012, but in fact that honor goes to the market-rate tower at 550 Vanderbilt.

Designed by COOKFOX Architects, it embraces the company’s principles of biophilia and materials that are tied to neighborhood context. In more simple language, that means large windows will afford ample daylighting and expansive views of Brooklyn and beyond, with flowering planters at the sill.

The tower at 550 Vanderbilt Avenue is one of six buildings now under construction at the complex. So far, 17 buildings are planned in total.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2016...erbilt-avenue/

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Lottery for 298 Affordable Units Set for Summer as Carlton Tower Tops Out

The all-affordable rental tower at the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park complex is at its peak, developers said, with a housing lottery set to take place at the building within months.

Workers installed the last beam at 535 Carlton Ave. over the weekend, according to developer Greenland Forest City Partners, topping out the 18-story residential tower that's set to include 298 affordable units.

The Prospect Heights building at the corner of Carlton Avenue and Dean Street is one of seven towers currently under construction or planned at the 22-acre Pacific Park development, née Atlantic Yards. The 298 units at 535 Carlton Ave. are part of 2,250 units of affordable apartments planned at the complex, required by the state to be built before 2025.

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https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...tower-tops-out

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New Renderings Released For 38 Sixth Avenue In Pacific Park

SHoP presented their fresh designs to the Empire State Development Corporation board, a state-run oversight committee, last week. The 23-story tower will rise at the northeast corner of Dean Street and Sixth Avenue. The facade is split into three stacked volumes, and each block will be clad in a distinct pattern and color of facade panels.

The base along Dean and Sixth Avenue will feature red and orange sections, layered on top of dark gray. The next several floors will be covered in a very light, almost-white gray. Then a mix of gold bands and cloud-gray panels will define the top eight stories and an interior section on Sixth Avenue. Unfortunately, the exterior does sport PTACs, which will mar the facade and drive up residents’ energy bills.

The interiors fit in with the design of the other Pacific Park buildings, like the COOKFOX-designed 550 Vanderbilt Avenue. Of course the materials don’t look quite as nice, because this is a rental building, and 550 Vanderbilt is a condo development. The apartments seem pretty standard, but the wood panelling in the lounge is a nice touch.

And 8,700 square feet of retail and medical offices will round out the ground floor.

Construction is expected to wrap in the winter of 2017.

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[antinimby]

More stack o'boxes. How innovative.

[chris08876]

Just a interesting fact that a nice section of this project (Pacific Park) was EB-5 funded. Along with other projects listed.


Credit: TDR

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Construction Update (Various Towers):














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Originally Posted by antinimby

More stack o'boxes. How innovative.

I actually really like this desgin. Compared to Ms. Brooklyn or whoever that chick was.

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Greenland Forest City looks to sell big stake in Pacific Park buildings

Forest City Ratner and its joint venture partner Greenland Group are shopping around a “very significant” equity stake in a handful of the 15 buildings slated for Pacific Park in Brooklyn, The Real Deal has learned.

Greenland Forest City Partners would use the money raised from the sale of the stake, which includes a 26-story under-construction condominium tower at 615 Dean Street, a planned 277-unit condo next door to the west on Dean Street, and a 750,000-square-foot tower slated for the corner of Sixth and Atlantic avenues, to recapitalize its own investment in the complex.

The partners have hired CBRE’s Darcy Stacom to market the stake in the three properties. The third building was originally slated to be residential but the partners may opt to develop it as an office tower instead, according to a recent report.

Forest City and Greenland teamed up in 2013 when Greenland, China’s largest developer, acquired a 70 percent stake in the massive Brooklyn project formerly known as Atlantic Yards, though not in the Barclays Center and the project’s first housing tower.

A spokesperson for the partnership declined to comment on the size of the equity stake or the asking price, saying only that the companies “remain fully committed” to developing Pacific Park.

“With 1,800 units of housing under way and thousands more in the pipeline, we’re maintaining significant forward progress in constructing Pacific Park,” a spokesperson said. “To ensure the most expeditious and effective build out, our joint venture is seeking strategic opportunities to recapitalize our significant equity investment.”

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http://therealdeal.com/2016/04/12/fo...-park-complex/

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Barclays Center Arena - 20160511_0910 by Atlantic Yards Watch Web Cam 4, on Flickr

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Barclays Center Arena - 20160615_1935 by Atlantic Yards Watch Web Cam 4, on Flickr