Guess What? Temple Tower Could Be 30 Stories After All

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(NOTE: All of the ‘air rights’ business below could be out of date. Still searching for updates but have not found any.)

Interesting. You know that tall luxury condo that will be built on the Union Temple parking lot facing Grand Army Plaza? Now, a member of the Prospect Heights Parents List (Yahoo! Groups) say the developer is in trying to buying air rights from a few neighboring buildings. Successfully buying air rights would permit him build up to 30 stories. The plan would have to survive community approval and review, of course, but it could be done.

So… the New York Times article may be “incorrect” for now, but that “30 stories” figure came from somewhere.

ALSO:We found out that the Eastern Parkway block association has discussed the condo development with Council Person Letitia James. Summary:

-Glass, white, curved to fit the street shape
-Eastern Athletic’s pool will lose (some of?) its grand view! (but will still receive light)
-Meier building will be 150 feet, or slightly higher than Union Temple)

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  1. podsednik says:
    October 28, 2005 at 3:41 pm

    Maybe it is 15 stories after all? Does anyone know where I can see the complete site plans for this development?

    http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=4008

    Erroneous Report on Tower by Richard Meier
    by Linda Collins ([email protected]), published online
    04-21-2005

    A neighborhood uproar in Prospect Heights caused by an article
    in the New York Times that mentioned a proposed 30-story
    residential tower being designed by the renowned architect
    Richard Meier on Eastern Parkway has been quelled. The Times
    admitted a factual and issued a correction.

    And the developers – Mario Procida and Lou Greco, who recently
    completed the successful 53 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn,
    and Sheldon Gordon – have confirmed that the project at 1
    Eastern Parkway will be only 15 stories high.

    The article, by Robin Pogrebin, was about Manhattan architect
    Meier and his several recent glass-and-steel residential towers
    on Perry and Charles Streets in Manhattan.

    Meier, whose work includes the Getty Museum complex in Los
    Angeles, has been selected as the designer for the Prospect
    Heights tower, which will be called 1 Prospect Park, according
    to Procida. Drawings and renderings are not available yet – “we
    are still in the design stage,” he said – and Procida would not
    confirm rumors that this building would be a characteristic
    Meier glass tower. In fact, Procida was reluctant to offer any
    preliminary details other than to say there will be 120
    “spectacular” luxury units.

    “We believe it will be one of the most spectacular new buildings
    – if not the most spectacular new building – in the borough,” he
    said.

    The site is a vacant lot adjacent to Union Temple of Brooklyn,
    at 17 Eastern Parkway, and is currently used as the Temple’s
    parking lot.

    It is directly across the street from the Brooklyn Museum, the
    Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza and the entrance to
    Prospect Park.

    Procida also said that constructing a 15-story building on the
    site is “as of right.”

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  2. anonymous says:
    October 29, 2005 at 9:02 pm

    i’ve seen the plans for this bldg and they are spectacular, really. this is going to be an amazing thing for eastern pkwy. change is inevitable, but thankfully this is really a thing of beauty. Not the Gehry monstrosity type situation facing other parts of prospect hts, or even the same as the new stuff on the WSHwy. So unless it’s your view that will be blocked, don’t worry about this bldg.

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  3. podsednik says:
    June 13, 2006 at 10:07 am

    What I’m mostly worried about is the parking lot exit on St. John’s place.

    Anyone know where the complete plans are yet?

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