Construction trade group CEO praises City Council for rezoning approval of Franklin Ave. site.

November 13, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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CITY HALL AND CROWN HEIGHTS — THE HEAD OF A LEADING BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADE ASSOCIATION in New York is praising City Council’s approval on Tuesday, Nov. 12 of the 962-972 Franklin Avenue Rezoning. Carlo A. Scissura, Esq., president and CEO of the New York Building Congress, “commends the City Council on their steadfast commitment to pushing the long awaited and transformational 962-972 Franklin Avenue Rezoning past the finish line today. This 14-story project will provide more than 100 units of critically needed affordable housing in the heart of Crown Heights, and will be fully financed, built and operated by unions under the AFL-CIO’s Housing Investment Trust.”

This week, the Botanic Garden and Ian Bruce Eichner, CEO of Continuum Companies, reached a deal that will protect the garden’s greenhouses from shadows and allow the developer’s Franklin Avenue project for a 10-story apartment tower to finally move forward, the BBG told Curbed.

Eichner’s building will have only nine stories on the side facing the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, thanks to a design that will also reduce the sloping roof plane to 10 degrees.

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