Gothamist: Sugary Land Deal: Domino Sugar Plant Purchased

catherine

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:59:57 -0500

On Tuesday, June 27, Community Board 1 will be holding a joint meeting of the ULURP (NYC's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) and Waterfront Committees. It's important that members and supporters of Waterfront Preservation Alliance come out to support the preservation of the historic buildings at the Domino site. Currently, the site is slated for residential redevelopment, but no commitment has been made to preserve and incorporate the historic buildings at the site into a residential development. WPA believes that there is ample opportunity at Domino for preservation and new development that meets the community's goals for open space and affordable housing as well. It's very important to have lots of residents and supporters at the meeting. If you can't attend please send a letter with your comments to Community Board 1 at the address below. Feel free to pass this email along to other fans of the buildings. The meeting is at the CB1 offices, 435 Graham Avenue (corner of Frost), 6:30pm.

astralgirl01

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 01:13:45 -0500

I agree with the idea of turning the factory into a museum/gallery space a la the Tate in London... cool space!

Real New Yorker

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:49:28 -0500

I remember when no none would go into Williamsburg unless it was to buy a dime bag. The place is still ugly and depressing. Luxury apartments in an industrial area covered with rats and litter. I think I'll pass.

SP

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:48:40 -0500

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had fanatasies about living in the top 2 or 3 floors of the factory that are encased in floor to ceiling windows. how cool would that be. it sucks that it will actually happen though, because if I or my friends cant have it, no one should.

SP

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:47:05 -0500

Randy

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:09:07 -0500

The Domino factory has one major residential advantage aside from view - it already has the skeleton for the bitchinest waterslide of any NYC loft building!

Jen W

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:15:09 -0500

Paul, 4th Ave. itself isn't too gentrified (it's too high on driving and low on foot traffic for 5th Ave. type development, which is/feels more "local" and browse-y ), but the blocks between 4th and 5th have gotten lots nicer in the past few years as the boundaries of the Slope have shifted.

sam

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:10:52 -0500

Dude, it's called a trackback, and the only purpose it serves is to let Gothamist know when they've been quoted in another blog - if Gothamist didn't want them, it wouldn't allow them. I just hope that when the building is inevitably converted into apartments, that the general facade of the building is kept.

Dirk

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:04:17 -0500

I'm just curious if Gothamist finds it annoying when people post comments that merely link to their own blog...

tien

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:02:59 -0500

sucks that they are even talks about developemnt for that factory. it's so cool looking. obviously, that's not good enough a reason to keep it though. "so this guy on gothamist said that the building was cool. let's keep it the way it is and turn it into an attraction!"

Paul

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:53:24 -0500

I haven't been in Park Slope very long, but I don't think there's anything gentrified about 4th Ave.