Building Brooklyn: Boro brass praise developers, salute future skylines
Chamber of Commerce awards 'shapers of Brooklyn's new century'
Results for the 2018 Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Building Brooklyn Awards had already been announced by the time civic leaders, contractors, architects and entrepreneurs gathered inside 1 Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. 1 to confer the awards over cocktails and canapes.
Of 11 sites singled out for honors, nine are located in North Brooklyn, only two — Dyker Heights’ District 20 Pre-K Center and Bensonhurst’s Il Centro — are in the south.
“That was just how it happened this year,” said 2018 judging panel member Geoffrey Doban of Doban Architecture. “We sorted through about 25 entrants. These were the ones that really stood out.”