Revere Dome to Come Back to Life as Shopping Mall & Condos?

Monday, June 4, 2007, by Robert

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If that thing in the middle of the top rendering looks familiar, it's because it is. It's an approximation of the Revere Dome in Red Hook, redone as the glass entrance to what looks like a huge shopping mall plus condos. The mall and condos, of course, would be mall in Red Hook where the Revere Dome used to be. We don't know what this rendering actually means, but the website belongs to Magnusson Architecture and Planning. The tipster who pointed us that way wrote, "Whether or not it's a real proposal or was done for fun, Thor has some ambitious plans out there in Brooklyn's final frontier." Is it a conceptual drawing? An actual plan? An outdated thing that's been up for a while without being noticed? Last we heard, Enrique Norten and TEN Arquitectos were doing the site, so maybe it's totally old. The details noted on the site are as follows:

Client: Thor Equities
Location: Red Hook, Brooklyn
Total SF: 1,661,200 SF
Residential SF: 907,000 SF
Retail SF: 250,000 SF

It says "the retail space is intended to be filled with a mixture of big box and local stores." The residential part of the 15-acre project would have 900 units and twelve story buildings. If it is real and current, there are small matters of zoning, etc. that would have to be resolved. Excuse us now while we go pinch ourselves to make sure we're awake.
· Red Hook Plan [Magnusson Architecture and Planning]
· Enrique Norten Would Design New Red Hook Buildings [Curbed]
· Red Hook's Revere Dome is Totally Gone [Curbed]

Filed under Architecture, Brooklyn, Brooklyn: Red Hook, Real Estate Development,

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Comments (10 extant)

A fucking mall?

By Chad at June 4, 2007 4:34 PM

As Paramus-awful as these designs are, Enrique Norten's are even worse.

By Oldmark at June 4, 2007 4:44 PM

I just puked a little bit in my mouth

By nolte at June 4, 2007 4:52 PM

Ahahahahah, you can't make this shit up.

By anon at June 4, 2007 5:27 PM

this project is dead. sorry to disappoint.

By anon at June 4, 2007 5:30 PM

no no no no. i'd rather see it burned to the ground.

By ugh at June 4, 2007 6:14 PM

If true they should perhaps rethink this.....

By Anonymous at June 4, 2007 10:39 PM

This is not Thor's proposed building. The building they are shooting for has a BJ's Wholesale big box retail situated over an above grade parking lot podium with twin 16 story residential towers. The sugar factory is gone in the proposed plans.

By Anonymous at June 4, 2007 11:03 PM

Umm, that's what the renderings show. The Rh is a knockoff logo for BJ's, with two towers on top.

Ugly, ugly ugly.

By hi! at June 5, 2007 12:19 AM

10.

I was in Red Hook a couple of months ago and overheard a dude on a cell phone say - I gotta get out of here, it's like the f*ckin Mall of America. He continued talking about his efforts to find an apartment in Crown Heights. I thought he was crazy, but maybe he was a prophet.

By Overheard in RH at June 5, 2007 8:56 PM