Construction has reached the halfway mark on 625 Fulton Street, a 35-story mixed-use tower in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fischer Rasmussen Whitefield Architects and developed by Rabsky Group with $450 million in construction financing from Madison Realty Capital, the 500-foot-tall structure will yield 1,098 residential units, 26,000 square feet of retail space, and an on-site parking garage for 250 vehicles. Galaxy Developers is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 485 Hudson Avenue and bound by the 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Rockwell Place to the east, and Hudson Avenue to the west.
Significant progress has occurred since our last update in December, when the reinforced concrete superstructure was just beginning to rise above street level. Photos taken over the weekend show the building standing as high as the 22nd floor on the easternmost wing of the building with the opposite western side at floor 21. At this pace, construction could top out sometime later this summer. Window installation has also commenced, with the square floor-to-ceiling panels enclosing the upper portions of the podium and beginning to rise up the tower on all four sides.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The main rendering depicts 625 Fulton Street’s podium topped with a landscaped roof deck featuring a tennis court, a children’s playground, and various seating arrangements. The tower rises with a L-shaped massing that incorporates two distinct façade designs. The westernmost wing’s fenestration is composed of oversized windows framed with a double-height pattern of white paneling, while the taller eastern portion utilizes a more traditional window grid surrounded by earth-toned panels. A stack of balconies runs the height of the southern tip of the building, which is capped with a glass-enclosed extension surrounded by landscaping.
The residential component will include 342 studios, 492 one-bedrooms, and 264 two-bedroom apartments, with 30 percent of the homes designated for affordable housing.
YIMBY anticipates 625 Fulton Street to complete construction around the middle of next year.
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It doesn’t look like anything to write home about in the rendering. I guess we’ll have to see how it looks like in reality.
Beautiful L-shaped massing that incorporates two distinct facade designs, oversized windows framed and the taller with window grid surrounded by earth-toned panels. I have point of view on extra large to viewers now had a clear-cut, for sure not completion but making let me know: Thanks to Michael Young.
1098 apartments is a lot of new residential supply. It’s not the most beautiful building, but it is what the city needs.
Agreed, I do hope the building’s facade turns out better than we assume
And couldn’t be in a more transit-rich location
If it’s in a transit rich location then why in the world would they build an on-site parking garage for 250 vehicles?!
What the city really needs is INCOME LINKED HOUSING for the low and middle income people that desperately need this, not the 130% AMI of six figure incomes of so called ‘affordable housing” this will bring and 250 enclosed parking spaces for more polluting cars in the neighborhood.
Yeah this is a big deal for that specific stretch and the Cultural District. Rabsky does good solid work. I’m bummed they didn’t go for the rezoning to go really big (that site can support it and so can the neighborhood) and it could have been a true architectural icon, but we make it way too difficult.
I’m just glad they moved away from the office concept, that would have been a disaster. I bet Savannah is still kicking itself for removing the resi component (That they went through ULURP for!!) from its Willoughby and Flatbush tower which now sits empty.
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One more time: Tennis, anyone? Also, bring extra balls! 🎾
I really hope they don’t have a dogs following wayward balls over the wall problem.
It’s one thing to have 2 ounce balls falling from the sky every now and then and another entirely to have 15 pound Buddy’s doing the same.
It makes a very small nod to it’s unique lot
Not Buddy! They gotta have super high fences, but definitely 2oz projectiles for the random pedestrian! ☂️🐩🎾
Ew, 250 parking spaces
That is very much alot of apartments, but the 30% affordable, we probably know it will go the high middle income which is close to market rate, and this how they fix the (AFFORDABLE HOUSING) crisis, with our hard earned taxes
affordable housing means market rate sure not for the hood