A neighborhood uproar in Prospect Heights caused by an article in the New York Times that mentioned a proposed 30-story residential tower being designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier on Eastern Parkway has been quelled. The Times admitted a factual and issued a correction.

And the developers — Mario Procida and Lou Greco, who recently completed the successful 53 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn, and Sheldon Gordon — have confirmed that the project at 1 Eastern Parkway will be only 15 stories high.

The article, by Robin Pogrebin, was about Manhattan architect Meier and his several recent glass-and-steel residential towers on Perry and Charles Streets in Manhattan.

Meier, whose work includes the Getty Museum complex in Los Angeles, has been selected as the designer for the Prospect Heights tower, which will be called 1 Prospect Park, according to Procida. Drawings and renderings are not available yet — “we are still in the design stage,” he said — and Procida would not confirm rumors that this building would be a characteristic Meier glass tower. In fact, Procida was reluctant to offer any preliminary details other than to say there will be 120 “spectacular” luxury units.

“We believe it will be one of the most spectacular new buildings — if not the most spectacular new building — in the borough,” he said.

The site is a vacant lot adjacent to Union Temple of Brooklyn, at 17 Eastern Parkway, and is currently used as the Temple’s parking lot.

It is directly across the street from the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza and the entrance to Prospect Park.

Procida also said that constructing a 15-story building on the site is “as of right.”

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