Clockwise from top left: a rendering of Dock 72 at 625 Kent Avenue at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (credit: S9 Architecture), Owen Thomas, Bill Rudin (credit: STUDIO SCRIVO), a rendering of a Livonia Commons building (credit: Bernheimer Architecture) and 453 Hinsdale Street in East New York
Boston Properties and Rudin Management’s long-planned WeWork-anchored Dock 72 office building was the largest construction permit filed with the city in November. Another Brooklyn project, the four-building second phase of the city’s Livinia Commons development was second on the list. Gary Barnett-led Extell Development filed plans for two more Midtown residential buildings while Tzvi Lipsitz’s Affordable Housing Real Estate Corporation also filed two sets of plans, for two Brooklyn residential projects.
While the biggest projects were very big, only half of the projects this month crossed 100,000 square feet. Residential builds and storage facilities dominated. Brooklyn, with six projects, was by far the best-represented borough. (more…)