Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

There wasn’t huge news at last night’s bi-monthly Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Quality of Life meeting, but here are the specific project updates, described below: open space outside 550 Vanderbilt should be open by February site maintenance has improved there are no plans yet for the tower including a school Mekelburg's aiming for 535 Carlton, may seek a liquor license allowing service until 4 am but the landlord won't allow it the Barclays Center has a new hotline if the oculus doesn't shut down on time (Also see coverage of big-picture issues .) Project update: open space Ashley Cotton of L&L MAG, which represents Forest City (and says she speaks for the joint venture Greenland Forest City Partners), said that open space planned outside 550 Vanderbilt is finished, but not yet open because of safety issues regarding final work on the building. “I was told February, today,” she said of the new goal. (Previously,  the goal  was the end of 2017.) On Dean S...

OK, we now know that a large outpost of retailer/cafe/eatery  Mekelburg's may come to 535 Carlton by 2019, as I  wrote  12/11/17, but the effort to bring late-night liquor service to a residential corner is not getting any support from Brooklyn Community Board 8. The committee overseeing liquor licenses dialed back on the application, which was seeking a 2 am closing time on weekdays/Sunday, and 4 am on Friday and Saturday, by stipulating a 3 am weekend closure, plus weekend security. But at a meeting 12/14/17, as indicated in a letter below, the full board voted unanimously to deny support for the overall application and the stipulations. It cited concern from building and neighborhood residents regarding "noise, deliveries, trash collection and rodent abatement, and disruptive presence of an eating and drinking establishment with late hours in an otherwise quiet, residential area." That doesn't necessarily have weight with the State Liquor Authority (SLA), wh...

It's not certain--no lease has been signed--but the major retail tenant at 535 Carlton, at the corner of Dean Street and Carlton Avenue, could be another branch of Mekelburg's . It opened in Clinton Hill  in 2014  as a "cozy," much-praised "Fine Foods & Craft Beer" store/cafe, and in May was announced as the anchor tenant for 325 Kent , the first building in the Domino Sugar complex in Williamsburg. That much larger outlet, at 4,000 square feet , should open in 2018, while the 535 Carlton location--also significantly larger than the Clinton Hill space--wouldn't open until 2019, at the earliest, according to statements made at a recent public meeting. Mekelburg's would occupy frontage along Carlton Avenue (left) and Dean Street (right), up to the parking garage No other retail tenants have surfaced for the four Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park buildings to open: 461 Dean, 550 Vanderbilt, and 38 Sixth. That may reflect lingering construction in...