Church of the Redeemer

The Church of the Redeemer — a 150-year-old building located at 561 Pacific Street near the rising Barclays Center — will soon be bulldozed to make room for new development, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Church leaders say the current building is structurally unsafe so they plan to partner with a private developer to erect a new sanctuary on the site along with residential or commercial space above. As it currently stands, zoning permits a structure to rise to 120 feet at the site, although few details of the actual plans were available. [more]