Thursday, May 10, 2012
The fashion retailer, born in the borough, will open their first Downtown Brooklyn location.
Discount retail chain Century 21 signed a lease at the City Point development, making it the first new department store on Fulton Street in 50 years. In January, it was reported that Target had made a deal for a 50,000-square-feet space in the building, and that Century 21 was expected to follow suit. The first Century 21 store opened in 1961 in Bay Ridge, with a large flagship location in lower Manhattan. The City Point location will be the company's eighth store. City Point, when completed, will be two residential towers with 680 units, spanning 1.3 million-square-feet. The development will include 675,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. The project is being built in three phases with construction on the second phase to begin…
Friday, October 28, 2011
Concerns over the process of selecting a successor to departed DBP head Joe Chan.
When former Downtown Brooklyn Partnership president Joe Chan announced he would leave his post after five years on the job, he left more than a vacant position with an annual salary of $200,000 in his wake. Chan also left a trail of acrimony among grassroots neighborhood activist groups like Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, which demanded last week that they be let into the process of finding a successor. FUREE plans to send a letter to DBE asking that there be a representative from the community on the board of the nonprofit development entity, which is also tasked with finding Chan's successor. At FUREE's 9th Annual Conference last week, Councilwoman Letitia James, D-Brooklyn, pledged her full support for increased …
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Worker and minority rights group gathers for its 9th Annual Conference in DoBro on Saturday.
For 20-year-old Eric Valentin, it all started with an envelope addressed to his mother from her landlord. Valentin's mother, the letter read, had only a few days to vacate an apartment she and her family had lived for years on Dwight Street in Red Hook. "They told her that they had to make renovations and that she would have to find another place to stay," he said. "But she had nowhere to go." That's when Valentin first came into contact with Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, a worker and minority rights group that held its 9th Annual Community Conference at St. Joseph's High School in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday. Joining Brooklyn residents young and old, Valentin celebrated FUREE's past achievements, discussed current …
bklyngirly
2:33 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
Is there going to be parking under this property? Target and Century will bring a lot of cars to our neighborhood of small one way streets. I will miss the DeKalb Market, the expanded food offerings are outstanding so far this season!! more ›