Developer Plots 1,500-Unit Rezoning in Gravesend

A quiet neighborhood in South Brooklyn could soon see an explosion of development as a rezoning effort gets underway.

Westshore Views LLC filed an application with the Department of City Planning to rezone the land at 4302 Westshore Avenue in Gravesend, Crain’s reported. The site is being used as car storage today.

The 737,000-square-foot waterfront development site is contained by an inlet from Gravesend Bay to the west, Calvert Vaux Park to the south and a service road for Shore Parkway to the north.

The proposed project would span 1.5 million square feet and feature 1,457 residential units — roughly 430 of which would be affordable — as well as 24 townhomes. The two high-rise buildings would also include 10,000 square feet of retail space, 80,000 square feet of community facility space, 143,000 square feet of open space and nearly 1,000 parking spaces.

The developer behind the application is obscured by the shell company, but hints point towards Melohn Properties. The signatory on the application is Robert Konig, who the Staten Island Advance reported is the executive project manager for Riverside Galleria on Staten Island.

Melohn is the developer behind the waterfront shopping complex. It also appears to be the owner of nine tax lots comprising the prospective rezoning; Robert Trump, late brother of the president, was a former owner of part of the same land.

The Real Deal could not immediately reach Melohn for comment.

Gravesend, just west of Sheepshead Bay, counted slightly more than 30,000 people among its population as of 2020. If two people move into each planned residence for the rezoning, the population would surge by approximately 10 percent.

Brooklyn is seeing a spate of significant rezoning proposals. Last month, the City Council agreed to rezone a 21-block area spanning Prospect Heights, northwestern Crown Heights and southern Bedford Stuyvesant along Atlantic Avenue. The rezoning could pave the way for 4,600 new homes.

— Holden Walter-Warner