625 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Source: The City of New York
The skyscraper would decisively anchor the Downtown Brooklyn skyline, together with 1,066-foot 9 DeKalb, under construction a few blocks west. Until further proposals inevitably surface, the pair would dominate the high-rise cluster, where the next-tallest building, the recently topped out Brooklyn Point, stands 720 feet tall, followed by 620-foot 11 Hoyt (also recently topped out), Hub (611 feet), and AVA DoBro (596 feet), all built in the past few years. Contenders such as 80 Flatbush (840 feet) and 205 Montague Street (700 feet) are also currently proposed.
The telescoping tower at 625 Fulton would feature 739,000 square feet of office space, 50,547 square feet of retail, and an 82,500-square-foot, 640-seat public elementary school. The residential portion would weigh in at 843,346 square feet, where a quarter of the 902 planned units would be affordable.
The balanced split of commercial, residential, and public space works in the spirit of Downtown Brooklyn’s ongoing mixing of uses. This environment stands in drastic contrast to the 1990’s, when the near-exclusive office district around the Metrotech Center emptied out every night, creating a desolate pedestrian gap in the midst of surrounding residential neighborhoods, such as Brooklyn Heights and Fort Greene.
625 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Source: The City of New York
Developers plan to break ground by 2020, and open the building’s doors in 2023.
The team behind the project makes its case for upzoning via an extensive rezoning proposal (PDF). A land use application has been filed with Brooklyn’s Community District 2 at the City Planning website.
625 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Source: The City of New York
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