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L10 Arts And Cultural Center Opens At 300 Ashland Place In Fort Greene, Brooklyn

7:30 am on February 7, 2025 By Max Gillespie

The L10 Arts and Cultural Center has opened at 300 Ashland Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Designed by Andrea Steele Architecture, the 65,000‑square‑foot facility is the result of a collaborative effort between the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), and Two Trees Management, with construction supported by an $84 million city investment. The center now serves as a permanent home for cultural institutions including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, 651 ARTS, and the Brooklyn Public Library.

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New York YIMBY’s 2025 Report Tallies Permits for Nearly 53,000 New Residential and Hotel Units Filed in Previous Year

8:00 am on February 6, 2025 By Vitali Ogorodnikov

As New York City enters the second half of the 2020s, YIMBY commemorates five years of sharing detailed quarterly and annual statistics on new building permits filed with the Department of Buildings. Our 2025 Construction Report reveals that in 2024, the city’s developers filed 2,744 new building permits, which combine for a total of more than 71 million square feet. These structures will supply nearly 53,000 new residential and hotel units upon completion, as well as ample newly constructed space for commercial, institutional, and other uses. Below we take a close look at the aggregated data and delineate emergent trends and patterns in a series of analyses of building height, floor area, location, and more.

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Jersey City Planning Board Approves 56-Story Skyscraper at 72 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey

7:30 am on February 6, 2025 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

The Jersey City Planning Board rental approved plans for 72 Montgomery Street, an upcoming 56-story residential skyscraper in downtown Jersey City, New Jersey. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by KRE Group, the 648-foot-tall structure will yield 600 rental apartments in studio to three-bedroom layouts, 2,788 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and 181 enclosed parking spaces on the lower levels. The nearly 2-acre site is bound by Christopher Columbus Drive to the north, Montgomery Street to the south, Greene Street to the east, and the Battery View Senior Citizen Housing complex to the immediate west.

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