Riverside Park Development Proposed For Brooklyn

[Bike Jax]

I say no gates in the urban core. You want live in this community, then you live in this community.

[copperfiend]

I say no gates in the urban core. You want live in this community, then you live in this community.

Exactly. Want security? Hire some security company to have a guard overnight.

[Jimmy]

+1, and...

I say we already have something in town named Riverside Park.  http://apps2.coj.net/parksinternet/parkdetails.asp?parkid=200

Can they come up with a different name?  I mean, Riverside Park has been there for over a hundred years...

[thelakelander]

I don't have a problem with it being gated parking. That's no different from having a garage in your backyard or in an alley. It all boils down to making sure each project maintains a pedestrian scale street edge. That means no surface parking and blank walls along the perimeter streets.  By the way, you don't have to close public streets to secure private parking.

[cline]

I say no gates in the urban core. You want live in this community, then you live in this community.

The Parks at the Cathedral is gated.  Do you take issue with that development?

[tufsu1]

^ yep....but all of our front doors are accessible from the street...the gate is purely to access the vehicle court and common area (pool, mini-park, and clubhouse)....it is the perfect compromise for an urban setting

and for that matter, buildings like 11E and the Carling have locking front doors and/or gated garages

[thelakelander]

Good observations.

[BigGuy219]

As is, this looks like a wonderful place to live. Close to downtown. Close to Riverside. I don't think they'll have much trouble selling these.

I'm not sure why everyone is so upset about the lack of inclusion of retail. Not everyone wants to live above a Chinese takeout restaurant you know.

If I did not rely heavily on JTA, I would consider relocating there if and when it's completed.

For those of you in love with the idea of mixed use residential/commercial ... I live at 11 East and we've been unable to find a renter for a retail storefront for years. It's a prime location on Forsyth and Main. There's 16 floors of residents directly above it with built in customers. It faces a law office and other successful businesses. Yet it sits as a sad empty reminder of the Starbucks implosion of a few years back.

[comncense]

I think the old Starbucks location is gonna suffer from the lack of parking in the immediate area. Most of the spaces on Forsyth are always taken. You can't park in the garage unless you're a resident and the surface lot isn't really open to the general public during the day. It would be tricky to get in and out quickly of whatever establishment opens there. I'm surprised Starbucks lasted as long as it did really.

I personally love the idea of mixing retail in with residential. I live at Berkman now and there's a lot of times I just don't feel like hopping in my car, coming down 3 floors of the parking garage just to head over to BG / Indochine or Chomp Chomp. Yes... call me lazy.

[second_pancake]

On the "Encroachments" slide, the picture in the bottom right is of a building in Grapevine, TX directly on the corner of Grapevine Hwy (26) and Main St.  It is right across from the historic train depot and downtown historic Grapevine.  The building is great - many apartments are loft style, and there is retail all along the first floor in the building that fronts the major roads (the buildings in the middle and back do not contain retail, but have 4 floors of residences).  If they build the Brooklyn project in the manner they built the Grapevine project, like someone noted here, with retail facing the major road (Riverside), then this would be fantastic.

[jcjohnpaint]

What is the little corner lot on the project land on Magnolia.  It looks like it is a park or is it future storefronts? 

[fsujax]

DDRB raised major concerns and deferred it.

[copperfiend]

DDRB raised major concerns and deferred it.

Good

[Tacachale]

^Okay, cool, I hope they work it out. Hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to hammer out a design that works for all involved.

[John P]

deferred until next month I guess