Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s tallest and emptiest high-rise, could be getting a new, barely smaller neighbor.
According to Gothamist, Mayor Eric Adams floated a proposal at a recent forum with top real estate brass for a new building at 395 Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, a bustling corner facing Brooklyn Paramount to the south and Junior’s to the east that currently houses what has been referred to as one of the neighborhood’s most aesthetically displeasing buildings.
The new 72-story and 840-foot-tall development is being pitched as a piece of Adams’ “City of Yes” housing initiative. It would reserve 25% to 30% of its 1,200 mixed-use residential units for affordable housing, or households making 60% to 80% of the median income in the area, which is between $87,000 and $116,000 for a family of three. An aide for the mayor claimed the building would be made available to the formerly houseless, and the development plan reportedly includes a facelift for the nearby Dekalb Avenue subway station, as well as the construction of a nearly 4,750 square-foot public plaza surrounding the building.
The building would replace the cold, steely seven-story structure currently in that location, which claims a ground-floor 7-11 and a Verizon call center as its only tenants. Still in the opening pages of a lengthy land-use process, the new 395 Flatbush building is at least a few years out from the approvals and permits needed to begin construction. However, Rabina and Park Tower Group, the developer behind the project, offered a few early renderings of the prospective glow-up, designed by TenBerke. And it doesn’t yet appear to be replacing one eyesore with another. Here’s hoping it’s able to fill more rooms than Brooklyn Tower.
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