Mixed-use

Gowanus Yards

Brooklyn, NY

Deal snapshot

Asset type
Mixed-use
Scale
180 units + retail
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Scope
Residential amenities, lobby, retail shell coordination
Stage engaged
Engaged during design development
Year
2024
Establishing view · imagery to come

The constraints

  • A ground floor that had to serve both residents and street retail without either reading as an afterthought.
  • Phased delivery, with the residential lobby opening before retail was tenanted.
  • An entitlement-driven ground-floor height the layout had to work within.

Design interventions

01

Split the ground floor into a resident arrival sequence and a leasable retail frontage with separate identities.

Protected residential rents from retail turnover and kept the retail bay independently marketable.

02

Specified a lobby that reads complete with the retail bay still dark.

Let the residential side open and lease on schedule regardless of retail tenanting timeline.

Amenity / interior · imagery to come

Outcomes

On timeverify

Residential lobby opened ahead of retail tenanting

Retailverify

Frontage delivered independently marketable

TBDverify

Absorption pace vs. submarket — to confirm at stabilization

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