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https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/inside...tallest-tower/
Inside the race to build Brooklyn’s tallest tower
By Shayne Benowitz
January 20, 2022
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It’s a race to the top in Downtown Brooklyn.
The borough’s densest neighborhood has witnessed a development boom that is now squeezing skyscrapers to heights of over 1,000 feet, rivaling the supertalls on Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan.
“Downtown Brooklyn didn’t have much of an identity over the last decade,” said Jared Della Valle, CEO and founder of Alloy Development, who recently broke ground on the Alloy Block, a five-building, mixed-use project in the area.
Now, that’s all changed.
Downtown Brooklyn’s new live, work and play vibe is partly thanks to a 2004 rezoning, which was designed to increase the area’s commercial footprint.
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The most impressive new structure to pierce the Downtown Brooklyn skyline is the Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Ave., which topped out in October. Soaring 1,066 feet above the borough at 93 stories, it dwarfs surrounding high rises, standing almost 350 feet taller than the next tallest building.
Developed and built by JDS Development Group and designed by SHoP Architects, the two firms are no strangers to sky high luxury engineering—they also collaborated to create 111 West 57, the critically acclaimed, 1,428-foot-tall sky palace on Billionaires’ Row at the foot of Central Park.
Whereas 111 W. 57th St. houses a mere 60 residences with an average price point around $28 million, the Brooklyn Tower will offer a more diversified inventory at a much larger scale. It will soon be home to about 550 residences, designed by Gachot Studios, 400 of which will be rentals with 30% designated as affordable housing.
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The 150 condos for sale begin above 500 feet (where most nearby penthouses cap out), so all will enjoy panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor, Prospect Park and Brooklyn through floor-to-ceiling windows.
The property also boasts 100,000 square feet of amenities, including health and fitness spaces and elevated outdoor loggias designed by Woods Bagot with landscape design by HMWhite.
While pricing has not yet been released, sales are set to launch early this year with leases to follow and occupancy by late 2022 with Douglas Elliman as the exclusive agent.
“It’s not just a sculpture in the sky, it’s different,” said Michael Stern, founder and CEO of JDS. The staggering tower also incorporates the restoration of the landmarked Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn, which dates back to 1906, with its dramatic dome ceiling and classical architecture, providing both a lobby entrance to the residences and 100,000 square feet of ground floor retail.
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