942-ft High-Rise On Fulton Street Would Be Highest Density In BK

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A 942-foot high rise with apartments, office space and a school could be making its way to Fulton Street next year, city records show.

An application has been submitted to rezone the lot at 625 Fulton Street to allow 1.5-million-square-feet of mixed-use space. The new building would include a school, publicly accessible indoor and outdoor space, residential apartments and office and retail spots.

If it is approved, the building would become the most dense in the borough, Politico reported. It is proposed by the Rabsky Development group, which bought the lot in 2016.

The developers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Details of the plan released by YIMBY show that its commercial office space would take up 739,000 square feet of the development, its retail space another 60,547 square feet and the 640-seat public elementary school would be 82,500 square feet. The residential portion would have 902 apartments, 25 percent of which would be affordable. The building will also include parking for 350 cars and a quarter-acre of public outdoor space at the street level.

The proposal is only a few steps in to the application process. An Environmental Assessment Statement was filed on Friday and will need to be completed before the development is reviewed by the community board and eventually the city.

It is one of at least four development projects the street has seen in about the last year, especially in the corner near the 625 Fulton Street spot, which falls just near the Fort Greene-Downtown Brooklyn line, city records show. Other projects include a 40-story tower for 570 Fulton Street that neighbors have sued the city over and the nearly completed apartment building at 810 Fulton Street, which just recently hit the affordable housing lottery.

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