Landmarks Preservation Commission okays fix-up work at Vincent Viola’s former Jehovah’s Witnesses building in Brooklyn Heights
There will be 101 apartments at 124 Columbia Heights
The makeover of a prime former Watchtower property into a secular building took a step forward Tuesday.
The city Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) unanimously approved fix-up work at 124 Columbia Heights — a former dorm for workers at the world headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses that new owner Vincent Viola plans to turn into an apartment building.
The LPC vote took place at the preservation agency’s Lower Manhattan headquarters.
Viola, the billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team and co-owner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby’s winning horse, Always Dreaming, was President Donald Trump’s first nominee for Secretary of the Army.