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DUMBO development

October, 2009

Clock tease! DUMBO mogul pitching $25M apartment

DUMBO: In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, DUMBO development titan David Walentas has put on the market the borough’s most-expensive apartment. Comments (6).

‘Dock’ tease: New internal e-mails show Walentas school would be substandard

DUMBO: The public middle school offered to the city by a DUMBO developer as a sweetener to get approval for his controversial apartment building next to the Brooklyn Bridge may have failed to meet city standards when it was approved earlier this year, according to documents that came to light this week. Comments (5).

Roofus: Time isn’t right for Clocktower apartment

DUMBO: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming has some doubts about the most expensive apartment in Brooklyn. Comment.

Walentas sued over slippery Dock docs

DUMBO: Did the developer play fast and loose with the zoning map to get his Dock Street project through the approval process? A new lawsuit says yes. Comments (3).

Roofus: Is a new lawsuit the last straw on Dock Street?

DUMBO: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming thinks Jed Walentas’s Dock Street project is a house of cards. Comment.

September, 2009

Luxury conversion has DUMBO upset at the Walentases

DUMBO: DUMBO titans David and Jed Walentas, who pride themselves on having developed the neighborhood as a hub of creative culture, will alter a piece of that culture by converting a loft building filled with artists and non-profits into luxury rental apartments. Comments (7).

June, 2009

Breaking news! City Council approves Dock Street project!

DUMBO: The City Council voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to give DUMBO developer Jed Walentas the rezoning that he needs to build a controversial 17-story tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Comments (8).

Breaking news! Council committee approves Dock Street project!

DUMBO: A key City Council committee this afternoon backed — by a surprisingly wide margin — DUMBO developer Jed Walentas’s controversial bid to build a 17-story tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge, hours after Speaker Christine Quinn reportedly had given her OK. Comments (68).

May, 2009

Council panel troubled by Dock Street project

DUMBO: Widely hyped concerns that a controversial residential tower and middle school on Dock Street in DUMBO would block views of the Brooklyn Bridge took a back seat at a City Council hearing last Thursday, where politicians focused on charges that the School Construction Authority improperly colluded with the project’s developer. Comments (13).

April, 2009

Smaller Dock Street project moves forward

DUMBO: The City Planning Commission voted overwhelmingly to support a controversial tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge — though the building’s 18-story wing will be shaved by one story. Comments (7).

Brooklyn Bridge historian McCullough denounces Dock St. project

DUMBO: Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough denounced a developer’s 18-story tower near the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday (though the view in the opponents’ photo op above would not be affected by the building). Comments (13).

Let DUMBO thrive

Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper comes out in favor of a residential rezoning. Comments (10).

CB2: Rezoning is the elephant in the room in DUMBO

DUMBO: A city plan to encourage residential development in parts of DUMBO was narrowly rejected by the neighborhood’s community board on Tuesday night. Comments (4).

A ‘Witness’ to the future as Watchtower buys land upstate

DUMBO: First came the sell-off, next comes the big move. Comments (57).

March, 2009

Did city lie about its Dock Street plans?

DUMBO: A huge trove of documents just released by the School Construction Authority bolsters the case of opponents of David and Jed Walentas’s Dock Street project that the city has not acted in a fully transparent manner. Comments (29).

Marty’s taller Dock Street tower unites everyone — against it!

DUMBO: The Beep’s vision for “saving” the Brooklyn Bridge would allow a taller, though thinner, Dock Street tower than David and Jed Walentases version above. Comments (1).

DUMBO’s future to be mapped out with rezoning

DUMBO: DUMBO residents and merchants are divided over a proposed city rezoning for a swath of the less-swank portion of the neighborhood east of the Manhattan Bridge that will allow old manufacturing buildings to be converted into residential lofts and let developers build new apartment buildings as high as 12 stories. Comments (1).

February, 2009

Marty: Yes on Dock Street (sort of)

DUMBO: Borough President Markowitz announced that he supports a DUMBO developer’s controversial residential tower, defying opponents who say the 18-story building would obstruct views of the Brooklyn Bridge — but his approval is conditional on a redesign of the building. Comments (4).

DUMBO’s future to be mapped out with rezoning

DUMBO: DUMBO residents and merchants are divided over a proposed city rezoning for a swath of the less-swank portion of the neighborhood east of the Manhattan Bridge that will allow old manufacturing buildings to be converted into residential lofts and let developers build new apartment buildings has high as 12 stories. Comments (1).

January, 2009

Yes on Dock Street

Editorial: Our editorial board reiterates its support for Jed Walentas’s Dock Street proposal. Comments (17).

Walentas opponents rally to ‘save’ Brooklyn Bridge

DUMBO: Opponents of a controversial 18-story residential building and public middle school rallied on Sunday morning in hopes of blocking a building that they say will forever block views of the historic Brooklyn Bridge. Comments (13).

Dock Street foes, supporters clash at hearing

DUMBO: Opponents of a controversial residential tower proposed to rise next to the Brooklyn Bridge brought their case to Borough President Markowitz on Tuesday night, bitterly describing developer Jed Walentas’s project as bad public policy and a disastrous way to treat the fabled and legendary span. Comments (27).

What’s up, Dock? Lobbying fees, that’s what

DUMBO: DUMBO’s principal real-estate development company has spent more than $400,000 on lobbying over the past two years — a time period that corresponds to the company’s effort to persuade city officials to back a controversial plan for an 18-story residential building and public middle school. Comments (3).

Walentas ‘Dock’ project sails ahead — though foes still say it would ruin Brooklyn Bridge

DUMBO: A local community board resoundingly approved a controversial plan on Wednesday night for an 18-story building that opponents say would forever ruin views of the fabled Brooklyn Bridge, but supporters say will bring a much-needed public middle school and affordable housing to DUMBO. Comments (17).

City to cobble together DUMBO streets

DUMBO: DUMBO is about to get stoned — restoned, that is. Comments (1).

Docked! Walentas in the fight of his life on DUMBO tower

DUMBO: A proposal for an 18-story tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge has bitterly divided Community Board 2 on the eve if its controversial vote on the project — and the fight has riven the community amid charges that each side is lying or intentionally manipulating the facts. Comments (28).

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