Eco-friendly Sheepshead Bay tower stalls over parking concerns
A plan to bring a 14-story, carbon-dioxide-swallowing senior care facility to Sheepshead Bay is facing opposition from the neighborhood’s community board for the facility’s lack of parking.
Developers hope to transform a mostly empty 6,600-square-foot lot at 1508 Avenue Z into an approximately 160-foot-tall, 14-story mixed-use building complete with a senior care facility, community center and commercial space on the ground floor. The façade — in the style of the post-war Japanese Metabolism movement, according to YIMBY — is wrapped in greenery that will filter CO2 from the air, and the roof will have a stormwater retention system that will recycle the water into the plumbing system.
Lawyers for SB1 Holdings LLC, the property owner, never got to tout the eco-conscious design at the Community Board 15 meeting Tuesday night, where it sought waivers for zoning limits on height, floor area and parking. The board voted unanimously against the plan for its lack of parking, and its proximity to the elevated rails of the Sheepshead Bay subway station.