Affordable housing to replace old Domino Sugar factory
A sweet new set of affordable apartments are coming to Williamsburg – their location: the site of the shuttered Domino Sugar factory.
Slated for completion in 2017, the first building, a 16-story structure, will include close to 500 rental units – 105 of them deemed to be “affordable” with rents starting at $575 a month.
Two Trees Management Company broke ground on the building on March 2 on the east side of Kent Avenue between South Third and Fourth Streets. The company will also begin work on rebuilding the quarter-mile-long waterfront pier, the future site of a five-acre public park, according to Two Trees.