[CPEO-BIF] Domino Sugar Factory site, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Planning Commission Votes Yea for Domino Project


By Marc Bussanich
Labor press (NY)
March 6, 2014

New York, NY - Last week the developer in charge to redevelop the old  
Domino Sugar Factory reportedly threatened to back out of the project  
because the mayor insisted more affordable housing units be built in  
exchange for zoning concessions. On Wednesday, all City Planning  
Commission commissioners voted yea to authorize the project.

Commissioner Irwin Cantor said while the city itself can't afford to  
build affordable housing, it enjoys the leverage of being able to  
sell land via air rights to private developers.

...

"This is a project that has an extraordinary amount of community  
benefits in it. We've got 30 percent affordable housing. There's more  
than 5 acres of new public park space, a brand new public school and  
a recreational facility. With those public benefits there are costs,"  
said Lambino.

...

For the entire article, see
http://laborpress.org/sectors/building-trades/3386-planning- 
commission-votes-yea-for-domino-project
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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