Downtown Brooklyn apartments rising on 10 parking sites

3,800 housing units planned for former home of lots and garages

1-31 Hoyt Street in Brooklyn and Tucker Reed
1-31 Hoyt Street in Brooklyn and Tucker Reed

Residential high-rises are increasingly replacing parking lots and multi-story buildings in Downtown Brooklyn.

In the neighborhood, as many as 10 residential projects are currently under construction – or soon will be – on the site of parking lots. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership said roughly 3,800 units of housing, including 650 affording housing units, will be housed in these buildings. For example, a five-story, Macy’s-owned parking garage at 1-31 Hoyt Street offers 580,000 buildable square feet. Although several developers have expressed interest, no development plans have been made for the site.

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“The city needs housing,” Tucker Reed of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership told Crain’s. “We need to be building it wherever we can, so this is great for [the neighborhood] as well as the city.” [Crain’s]Mark Maurer