It’s been a long wait. But the $683 million Brooklyn Village mixed-use development is finally months away from moving dirt.
Sitting on 17 acres, mostly in uptown’s Second Ward, the project will bring apartments, offices, hotel rooms and retail to an area lacking those sorts of destinations. The Board of County Commissioners heard an update from county real estate management director Jacqueline McNeil on Tuesday afternoon about it.
No vote was taken, although some commissioners said discussing the project was like “revisiting a bad nightmare” over their concerns about the number of affordable units for low-income residents and the amount of open space.
The project is named for Brooklyn, a Black neighborhood that was torn down in the 1960s and ‘70s under the federal urban renewal program. The neighborhood was once home to more than 1,000 families and around 1,400 businesses.
In Brooklyn’s place went the Government Center, courthouse, jail and other municipal buildings.
BK Partners — a partnership of two companies, Conformity Corporation and The Peebles Corporation — is the developer. Peebles is based in New York; Conformity is based in Charlotte.
The developer has made it a goal to provide accessible affordable housing, according to a BK Partners statement sent to The Charlotte Observer. The developer will continue to work with the community to make the project inclusive for everybody.
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