Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba


Fulton Transit Center Atrium, photo by Patrick Cashin for the

Fulton Transit Center’s Retail Will Finally Open in the Fall

When the Fulton Transit Center opened last November, glowing reviews celebrated its 53-foot-wide oculus while lamenting its $1.4 billion price tag, which had doubled since the project’s inception several years before. Now, spokespeople from Westfield and the MTA tell YIMBY that retail will begin opening in the fall and continue through 2016. There will be about 20 stores ranging from retail and service providers to eateries and full service restaurants.

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687 Flushing Avenue, photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Seven-Story Addition and Yeshiva Conversion Planned for 687 Flushing Avenue, Broadway Triangle

As the Rabsky Group plans to rezone an industrial swath of Williamsburg’s Broadway Triangle for a huge residential development, other landlords are converting the area’s commercial buildings to apartments and retail. Schlomo Landau has filed alteration applications to expand a two-story storefront at 687 Flushing Avenue to a nine-story apartment building.

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