David Adjaye designs revitalized Bedford Stuyvesant campus to fight racial disparities in Brooklyn

2023-02-17T11:44:00-05:00

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation has unveiled plans for an Adjaye Associates-designed Restoration Innovation Campus in Brooklyn. A re-imagination of the milestone corporation’s longtime Fulton Street home, the 840,000-square-foot campus will be dedicated to closing Brooklyn’s racial wealth gap.

The project will include a significant expansion of Bed-Stuy’s cultural center and the Billie Holiday Theater, new public open space, and two commercial buildings serving private, nonprofit, and government partners focused on addressing the racial wealth gap. 600,000 square feet of office space will be offered in the new hub alongside 190,000 square feet of retail, while a publicly-accessible rooftop will accommodate cultural programming and events.

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Adjaye's Restoration Plaza project gets a little clearer in Brooklyn

2023-01-30T18:11:00-05:00

First announced in 2019, the project spans a block of Fulton Street between Brooklyn Avenue to the east and New York Avenue to the west. Plans call for the construction of three buildings featuring approximately 840,000 square feet of offices, educational, cultural, and commercial space. While the project would roughly double the size of the existing 1970s structures at Restoration Plaza, the property's namesake open space would be retained by building up, rather than out.

According to Urbanize NYC, the Restoration Plaza development will include two 13- and 16-story mixed-use structures separated by a 4-story community building to house art galleries, a dance studio, and other cultural spaces. This will be Adjaye Associates’ next New York project, after 130 William, the Carriage House, the Studio Musem in Harlem, the Sugar Hill Mixed-Use Housing Development (also in Harlem), and the 2015 Pitch Black office and studio space project for artist Lorna Simpson.

"We want this to be the tech hub of Central Brooklyn that’s very similar to downtown Brooklyn, that’s very similar to the Navy Yard," Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation CEO Blondel Pinnock told THE CITY. Current estimates are for an eight-year construction timeline.

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David Adjaye designs revitalized Bedford Stuyvesant campus to fight racial disparities in Brooklyn

Adjaye's Restoration Plaza project gets a little clearer in Brooklyn