![]() ![]() Since its founding in 1968, Two Trees Management Company, a Brooklyn-based real estate development firm, has owned, managed and developed a real estate portfolio that includes more than 6,000 mixed-income apartments and over 3 million square feet of office and retail space. This building on the North end of the park, designed by COOKFOX Architects, includes mixed income apartments, office space and neighborhood retail favorites including the eateries Roberta’s and Two Hands and the design store Beam. The second mixed-use building, comprised of the residential One South First and the commercial Ten Grand Street, opened in 2019. It includes 520 apartments, 105 of which are occupied by low income residents, as well as exceptional local retailers like Sky Ting Yoga, Mekelburg’s, a restaurant by Michelin-star chef Missy Robbins, Modern Chemist, and a local wine store. The first mixed use building, 325 Kent, was designed by SHoP Architects and opened in 2017. Conceived by Two Trees in partnership with landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations, the lead designers of the High Line, Domino Park is an unrivaled quarter-mile public park located just north of the Williamsburg Bridge that celebrates the history of one of New York’s most iconic industrial waterfront sites. The June 2018 opening of Domino Park represents the early fulfillment of a pledge by Two Trees Management Company to deliver 6-acres of public open space to the North Williamsburg community. These improved plans include the adaptive reuse of the Landmarked Domino Refinery for creative office space, four new mixed-use residential buildings that will house 700 units of affordable housing, and a five-acre linear park reconnecting the community to the waterfront and providing much-needed open space for local residents, while honoring and celebrating the history of the sugar trade in NYC. As a result of broad and inclusive outreach, new development plans were approved in 2014. In an effort to create an improved redevelopment plan that better served the needs of this diverse community, a new public approval process was initiated by Two Trees in 2013. This plan had not yet been executed when Two Trees Management Company acquired the land in 2012. Ultimately, the City approved a residential rezoning in 2010. Upon completion, the project will include 2,800 rental units across four residential buildings (700 of which will be affordable), 200,000 square feet of retail, and 600,000 square feet of commercial space.Background on the Domino Sugar Redevelopmentįollowing the closure of the Domino Sugar Factory in 2004, this 11-acre site sat dormant as plans for redevelopment were debated by the City, community stakeholders and the development team that purchased the site from Domino. Two Trees acquired the park with the promise to turn it into an open public space as part of the 2014 rezoning deal it made with the city for an 11-acre megaproject on the entire Domino property footprint. In 1856, the land where the park is was once the Domino Sugar Refinery and the largest and most productive sugar refinery in the world, producing 4 million pounds of sugar daily. ![]() Domino Wins National Award for Public Open SpaceDomino Park was selected as one of the winners of this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Urban Open Space Award for its outstanding open spaces.ĭomino Park, the home of the historic Domino Sugar Factory site, has been transformed into a mixed-use space within an area that previously had one of the lowest open space to people ratios in the city, said Lampariello. The park is designed by landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations and privately-funded by Brooklyn-based developer Two Trees Management. The 5-acre waterfront park opened to the public in summer 2018, reconnects the Williamsburg neighborhood to the East River for the first time in 160 years. ![]()
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