By Matt Chaban 1/25 10:41am

Making History

Here to stay. (Getty)

Big Real Estate Could Not Knock Down the Downtown Brooklyn Skyscraper District

Downtown Brooklyn developers and cooperators, with a hefty helping hand from the real estate lobby, threw everything they could at the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District, a new landmarking effort aimed at saving the area’s historic highrises. In the end, the preservationists won out, as a City Council subcommittee voted unanimously yesterday to approve the historic district, all but ensuring its passage by the full council on February 1. Read More

By Pamela Engel 6/16/11 3:11pm

BroBos

I know, man, an entire mixed-use development at Fourth and Flatbush.

Downtown Brooklyn Has More College Students Than Cambridge, Mass.

Tim King, managing director of residential real estate brokerage CPEX, said that “downtown Brooklyn now has more college students than Cambridge, Mass.,” according to The Real Deal‘s Twitter feed, which is running from a so-called summit today on Brooklyn real estate.

Downtown Brooklyn might not be the most enticing neighborhood for some, but perhaps college students Read More

By Jotham Sederstrom 4/14/11 7:37pm

Brooklyn

Big Deal Pending at Ratner’s Metrotech

Polytechnic Institute of New York University, the private engineering college in downtown Brooklyn, is nearing a deal for approximately 9,000 square feet of office and administrative space at Metrotech Center, sources familiar with the process told The Observer yesterday.

Currently occupying space at the Forest City Ratner-owned 5 and 6 MetroTech as well as nearby Read More

By Jotham Sederstrom 3/08/11 2:37pm

the sit-down

What’s Up in Downtown Brooklyn

As president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the local development corporation, Joe Chan has overseen an ambitious plan to revive the business district known to many as the land of law firms, courthouses and offices. Mr. Chan, 39, talked about plans for new public space and thousands of square feet of fresh retail-and Read More