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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: August 15, 2016
Greenland Forest City Partners tops out 38 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn; Designed by SHoP Architects and built by Tishman Construction
Brooklyn, NY Greenland Forest City Partners’ 38 Sixth Ave., one of Pacific Park’s two all-affordable properties, has topped out. This marks an important milestone in the construction process and makes the building one giant step closer to opening its much-needed, below-market rental units.
Designed by SHoP Architects and being built by Tishman Construction, 38 Sixth Ave. will include:
• 303 apartments
• 23 stories
• 8,700 s/f of retail and medical offices on the ground floor
• An underground parking facility.
This topping out comes at an exciting time for Pacific Park Brooklyn, when other properties on the site are hitting important milestones:
• Last month, the affordable housing lottery for 461 Dean St. closed after receiving 84,000 applications for181 below-market units
• 550 Vanderbilt, one of the luxury properties at Pacific Park Brooklyn, had sold over 50% of its units. Today, over 140 apartments at the site are now in contract.
When completed, Pacific Park Brooklyn, will add 6,430 new units of housing across 14 residential buildings; 2,250 of these apartments will be designated as affordable and set aside of low and middle-income New Yorkers.
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