My City Limits' Brooklyn Bureau article, Behind Atlantic Yards Housing Deal, Some Big Shifts, has the subhed "Affordability in next two buildings skews to households earning six figures; pattern suggests more all market-rate towers; new emphasis on larger units."
One lingering question is whether the tradeoff--speedier towers, but lesser affordability, at least in the next two towers--is worth it.
Also, I report on the possibility of a major departure from the mixed-income towers touted by the developer:
According to a draft document obtained by this reporter, Forest City is considering a plan in which six of 14 residential towers contain exclusively market-rate towers (three rental, three condo). Of the remainder, two would be the just-announced 100 percent affordable rental buildings, five would follow the promised 50 percent affordable/50 percent market template for rentals, and one would mix condos and 50/50 rentals.
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