Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

This is the fourth among multiple posts concerning the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Quality of Life meeting Tuesday 10/9/18, held at 55 Hanson Place and sponsored by Empire State Development (ESD). The  first post  concerned the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation; the  second post  was about work in the Vanderbilt Yard; the third post concerned contracts for future project monitors and the Site 5 tower. I wasn't able to attend but am relying on an audiotape of the meeting (and the slide presentation).  B4, view from Atlantic Avenue Rendering by Perkins Eastman So, there was a presentation about plans for B4, aka 18 Sixth Avenue, the giant tower slated for the northeast corner of the arena block, with more images than the one released a few weeks ago , as described below. Greenland USA project manager Scott Solish introduced  Michael Lew , a principal at the architecture firm Perkins Eastman, who's leading the design. Lew noted that ...

Beyond the scoop spoon-fed to the New York Post about two developers buying three terra firma sites in the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project, there wasn't much new in the press release dutifully repackaged by Real Estate Weekly , Bklyner , 6sqft , Bisnow , and Curbed . But a few things are worthy of notice. First, though the Post didn't make it clear, TF Cornerstone is leasing buying the two adjacent sites on the southeast block, 615 Dean (B12) and 595 Dean (B13), while the Brodsky Organization is leasing buying 664 Pacific (B15). The two firms are not operating in partnership. Enter Perkins Eastman, exit SHoP Also, Greenland USA--which controls 95% of the project (except those three sites) going forward as part of Greenland Forest City Partners--disclosed that the architect for B4 (18 Sixth Avenue) will be Perkins Eastman, which produced the rendering above right. That means that SHoP, which designed the other two towers (461 Dean and 38 Sixth) on the arena blo...