Building boom in the Brooklyn Cultural District
Eye On Real Estate: The area is 'a Lincoln Center don't-wannabe,' BAM President Karen Brooks Hopkins says
Every Day, It’s A Gettin’ Closer, Goin’ Faster Than A Roller Coaster.
Construction is picking up speed at development sites in the Brooklyn Cultural District. This calls to mind a favorite Buddy Holly song. But let us not digress.
A building boom is beginning to gain momentum on barren tracts that were parking lots for a looong time. Three apartment buildings with space for cultural facilities, a Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel and a combination health center and office building are underway — or just about to get going — in the Downtown Brooklyn mini-neighborhood anchored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
“We are thrilled that every site has now been named and slated for development, and that so many of the sites have cultural entities in the base of their buildings,” Karen Brooks Hopkins, BAM’s president, said in a recent sit-down.