By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN -- Decisions have been made on a major new element for the BAM Cultural Center, a permanent new home for DanceSpace and a 30-story dramatic new apartment building, the whole thing to be called Borough Gardens.
The new complex will be in the same block as Mark Morris Dance Studio and the Theatre for a New Audience between Lafayette Avenue, Fulton Street, Rockwell Place and Ashland Place.
The city asked for a request for proposals for this site and Carelton Brown of Full Spectrum of New York was selected to be the developer. This will be the first development in Brooklyn by this Harlem-based firm.
In the general plan for the creation of a new cultural center, what is called “Site 4,” was set aside for DanceSpace. The space will consist of 40,000 square feet for performance space for DanceSpace, its new home, and 10 rehearsal studios.
The apartment building will have 185 apartments, half of which will be earmarked for low-income and moderate-income families along with galleries and retail space.
Ground should be broken for this development early next year, and everything should be completed by 2010.
Much of this building will be considered a “green” building because of its interior heating and cooling technologies and the use of green-growing roofs and balconies.
The overall concept for the new cultural center is slated to cost at least $500 million and involve a variety of artistic settings and venues and a platform for affordable housing geared to artists. Nothing quite like this has been attempted in this city, and the decision to move forward on the DanceSpace element is a major step toward accomplishing that goal.
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