City Council Subcomittees Approve Zoning Change For 25 Kent
A zoning change for Toby Moskivits’ 480k SF ground-up office and light manufacturing project at 25 Kent Ave in Williamsburg has passed two city council subcommittees.
The City Council’s subcomittee on zoning and franchises and the committee on land use voted the zoning change through, and a vote before the full council happens on Thursday, Bloomberg reports.
Subcommittee approvals like this one typically pass the full council, and if this one does, it would effectively green-light the project, co-developed with Rubenstein Partners.
The project will total 340k SF of rentable office space with 60k SF set aside for manufacturing. It will be Brooklyn's first ground-up spec office development in more than 40 years.
The city planning commission gave the go-ahead for the zoning change for the project to go around the area’s standard zoning last month. Tuesday's vote was the next step in the process.
A proposal to rezone a 14-block swath of Williamsburg’s waterfront to allow office projects similar to 25 Kent failed. It could have led to what would amount to a new office district in the area.
Special zoning permits of the type the project now looks likely to get usually come with a requirement to incorporate community uses like a school or a recreational center. It’s not yet clear whether such a facility—or what kind—will be part of the 25 Kent Ave development. [Bloomberg]
