ODA Architecture, which is designing the two towers at Pier 6, has filed plans for the developments at 15 and 50 Bridge Park Drive in Brooklyn Bridge Park. According to the permits, 50 Bridge Park Drive will be 30 stories in height with 126 residential units. 15 Bridge Park Drive will be 16 stories with 140 units of which 100 apartments will be set aside as affordable housing, and 40 will rent for market rates. It will also include 4,181 square feet of retail.
The total of 266 new residential units could generate additional 77 elementary students for the neighborhood (PS 8?) according to the CEQR Technical Manual/SCA public school ratio 0.29.
The 75-seat preschool for public Pre-K has been removed from the plans as well as a 1,500-square-foot community facility, or a second ground floor retail space. dnainfo is reporting that “according to Brooklyn Bridge Park officials, those amenities, including the preschool, were part of a modified version of the “General Project Plan” (GPP) for the development. However those modifications required approval by Empire State Development Corporation, a state agency, which declined to vote on the project. Park leadership reverted to an unmodified version of the GPP, which did not allow for a pre-K.”
