Demolition of a multi-story parking garage has wrapped up at 85 DeKalb Avenue, the site of a planned 29-story residential building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Long Island University and RXR Realty under the RXR LIU Developer TRS LLC, the 348-foot-tall structure will span 288,849 square feet and yield 275 rental units with an average scope of 883 square feet, as well as 45,981 square feet of community facility space, a cellar level, a 30-foot long rear yard, two loading berths, and 198 enclosed parking spaces. Capital Industries Corp. is the general contractor for the project, which is located at the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Rockwell Place.
The site is completely cleared of the previously existing structure and awaiting the start of excavation.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Below are photographs from last November showing demolition on the final sections of the old reinforced concrete superstructure.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
No finalized renderings have been released for 85 DeKalb Avenue. At 29 stories high, the structure will make an impact on the Fort Greene neighborhood and add to the growing vertical density of Downtown Brooklyn. The north-south orientation and rectangular outline of the parcel will likely create a building massing with a wide eastern and western elevation, similar to The Willoughby, another recent collaboration from Perkins Eastman and RXR Realty at 196 Willoughby Street on the LIU campus.
The site is a short walk from the DeKalb Avenue subway station along Flatbush Avenue Extension, servicing the B, Q, and R trains.
Start and completion dates for 85 DeKalb Avenue has yet to be announced.
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198 enclosed parking a waste all transportation around vicinity. More pollution
more indoor parking that isn’t needed and yes more pollution
200 parking spots in the middle of Brooklyn? When will this nonsense end?
The previous structure was a 6-story garage with 425 parking spaces. Now it will be an apartment building with a large portion of it affordable housing – and yes, 200 parking spaces. I like to complain as much as any New Yorker but this sounds like an improvement to me.
Jason we can’t jump the gun on that word [affordable] there is no AMI or status on on the rents, and especially in that desirable area, most of the time its only [affordable] for market rate/high middle income, if that’s what you prefer affordable?