29-Story Apartment Tower Could Replace Parking Garage: Permit

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — The designers behind a Brooklyn luxury building want to build an apartment tower where a Long Island University parking garage currently stands, permits show.

The new 29-story building adjacent to the LIU Brooklyn campus could mostly include residential space — 275 apartments in total — as well as a couple floors of "educational" space, according to plans filed with the Department of Buildings this week. YIMBY was the first to report on this story.

As the real estate site pointed out, the developer and architect behind the project — RXR Realty and Perkins Eastman, respectively — also worked on a nearby luxury apartment tower, which recently opened and includes some income-restricted units.

The site where the proposed tower would be built, which is on Dekalb Avenue between Flatbush and Hudson avenues, is currently a six-story parking garage owned by LIU Brooklyn.

It's not immediately apparent what would happen to the garage, but no demolition permits have been filed as of Feb. 10.

Correction: An initial version of this article incorrectly identified the building site as a student fitness center-slash-cafe across the street from the parking garage. There are no plans to demolish that building.