17-Story Apartment Tower In Bed-Stuy Faces Borough Hall Hearing

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — A 17-story apartment tower planned for Atlantic Avenue will face a pubic hearing at Borough Hall on Wednesday.

The development, which won the support of the community board last week, will be the fifth agenda item on the land use hearing set to kick off at 6 p.m., the schedule shows.

The 1045 Atlantic Ave. project proposes changes zoning at the site to make way for 420 apartments, 126 of which would be designated as affordable.

It would be the first all-electric development in Bed-Stuy in an effort to improve equitable access to reliable energy, according to Totem, the developers.

The electric building will use microgrid battery technology managed by MGN and include other green features like sustainable wood cladding, green roofs and rainwater catchment systems, developers said.

It will include one, two and three-bedroom apartments, small retailers on the first floor and a publicly-accessible bike parking hub from Brooklyn company Oonee. The 126 affordable apartments will go to those making 40 to 100 percent of the area median income, or between $42,960 and $107,400 for a family of three, according to Totem.

The developers also set up a Community Impact Fund, which they will give $50,000 to each year. The fund, managed by the Brooklyn Community Foundation, will feed the money to community-based organization each year, Totem said.

Developers also teamed up with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and St. Nicks Alliance for the project.

The hearing at Borough Hall will start at 6 p.m. in the Community Room. It will also be filmed for YouTube and held remotely over Webex. Those who wish to testify virtually can find more information about how to do so here.

Also on the agenda is a citywide rule about hotels, a city application related to the clean-up of the Gowanus Canal, a redevelopment plan for the Brooklyn Navy Yard and a new development on Third Avenue.