There is more big news from South Brooklyn this morning: The city has announced that a team led by the Hudson Companies has been chosen to build its "Gowanus Green" development on Public Place between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal. The design come from Rogers Marvel Architects and landscape designers West 8 and Starr Whitehouse. (For the full photo gallery of renderings of the winning proposal, click here.) The Hudson Companies proposal was selected over one from Related Companies/Monadnock. The development team includes the Bluestone Organization, the Fifth Avenue Committee and Jonathan Rose Companies. The development will include 774 units of mixed-income housing, with 615 apartments for low- and middle-income families, including 120 units of low-income senior housing. It will also include 25,000 square feet of cultural space, 38,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and nearly 100,000 square feet of public open space located along the canal. The proposal is the bigger of the two finalists that were considered. A big cleanup of the very toxic site has to happen before Gowanus can go green and the development could still grow significantly if it expands to an adjacent parcel of land.
· Hudson Companies 'Gowanus Green' Revealed in Detail [Curbed]
· Hudson Companies Chosen to Develop Public Place Site [Brownstoner]
· Related/Monadnock Public Place Proposal Fully Revealed [Curbed]
HUDSON SQUARE—One of the teams that took part in that awesome Envisioning Hudson Square Design Charrette, Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects and Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, just received the American Institute of Architects' annual Design Award for their vision, titled Hudson Square Rise. There it is up above, and you can see more detailed glimpses of the design here, here and here. Congrats! [CurbedWire Inbox]
TRIBECA—The crane is back in action at the Jack Parker site on Washington and Watts Streets, following that little booboo a few weeks back. Did the incident result in more transparency for a massive project that few know anything about? Er, no. [CurbedWire Staff]
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK—Rarely do we get excited about the wilds of Queens, but we must tip our hat to the borough, because tomorrow morning the city's first indoor public pool built in four decades will throw open its doors. From the press release: "The Olympic-size swimming pool is housed in the new Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium and Ice Rink building, which was built in partnership with the Economic Development Corporation. The contemporary building, which also houses a NHL-regulation ice rink, is largest recreation complex ever built in a City park and will serve as a year-round facility for competitive and recreational use." You know we love a good pool. [CurbedWire Inbox]
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TRIBECA—The crane is back in action at the Jack Parker site on Washington and Watts Streets, following that little 
