{"id":1979,"date":"2007-01-08T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/neighborhood_saves_100-year-old_concrete_warehouse_ground_still_unremediated.html"},"modified":"2007-01-08T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T18:24:33","slug":"neighborhood_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/neighborhood_sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Saves 100-Year-Old Concrete Warehouse; Ground Still Unremediated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preservationists cheer as McMansionist Toll Brothers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpapers.com\/html\/issues\/_vol30\/30_01\/30_01nets5.html\">apparently pull out of Gowanus Canal project for now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Toll Brothers has withdrawn an application for a state-supervised cleanup of a two-block stretch of Bond Street along the Gowanus Canal because an expected residential rezoning of the area hasn&#8217;t happened yet, a company spokesman told The Brooklyn Paper this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end, we applied for the cleanup too early, said spokesman David Von Spreckelsen.<\/p>\n<p>The reason stems from a Catch-22 on the waterfront. Toll Brothers won&#8217;t buy the site, including its historic, stark cement building, until the city rezones the land for residential use. But the state can&#8217;t approve a taxpayer-subsidized cleanup until the developer buys the site, which runs along Bond Street from First through Carroll streets.<\/p>\n<p>Von Spreckelsen said the sale would be completed soon and that the company will develop the industrial site into a canal-front village of mixed-income apartments and townhouses.<\/p>\n<p>The almost-acquisition is the latest in a string of sales to residential builders expected to transform the grimy Gowanus into an annex of posh Park Slope, just across Fourth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The rezoning that Toll Brothers needs can&#8217;t move forward without approval from the Department of City Planning &#8212; which itself won&#8217;t move forward until after a series of public hearings that are sure to get heated in Brooklyn&#8217;s famously stinky armpit.<\/p>\n<p>News of the Toll&#8217;s delayed progress pleased neighborhood residents who fear that the canal zone will lose its history to the McMansion builder.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, that fear has coalesced around a mysterious affection for one of the buildings on the Toll site: a concrete warehouse used in the late 19th- and early 20th century to store building materials.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Backstory: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/first_coyotes_n.html\">First Coyotes, Now Toll Brothers: New York City&#8217;s Exurbanization Is Nearly Complete<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preservationists cheer as McMansionist Toll Brothers apparently pull out of Gowanus Canal project for now: Toll Brothers has withdrawn an application for a state-supervised cleanup of a two-block stretch of Bond Street along the Gowanus Canal because an expected residential rezoning of the area hasn&#8217;t happened yet, a company spokesman told The Brooklyn Paper this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}