Excavation and foundations are progressing at 300 Nevins Street, the site of a two-tower residential project in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by Fogarty Finger and developed by Charney Companies and Tavros Capital, the 600,000-square-foot complex will yield 654 rental units with 25 percent designated as affordable housing, as well as ground-floor retail space and a public waterfront esplanade designed by James Corner Field Operations. Broadway Construction Group is the general contractor for the 2.3-acre full-block property, which is alternately addressed as 417 Carroll Street and bound by Union Street to the north, Carroll Street to the south, Nevins Street to the east, the Gowanus Canal to the west.