Another new residential development is on its way to Gowanus, more than two years after the neighborhood's rezoning.Developer Michael Khoo is planning a project at 557 Third Ave., located between 14th and 15th streets in the Brooklyn neighborhood, that will span about 30,000 square feet with 41 residential units, according to a recent filing with the Department of Buildings. The project will stand 6 stories and 70 feet tall and include 21 parking spots as well.A Sunset Park-based limited liability company bought the site under the name Robert Khoo in September for about $7.4 million, property records show; commercial real estate database CoStar, however, lists the property owner as Huat Khoo. Huat Khoo did not respond to a request for comment on the project by press time. The relationship between Robert and Huat Khoo was not immediately clear.The site is currently home to a 2-story industrial building spanning 10,600 square feet, according to CoStar. Demolition permits for the site have not been filed yet.Gowanus has seen a major influx of projects since the end of 2021, when the city rezoned the neighborhood, which former Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration estimated would bring roughly 8,000 new housing units to the neighborhood, more than 3,000 of which would be affordable. An analysis last year from Brooklyn-focused brokerage TerraCRG found that there were 25 projects with about 6,300 overall housing units in the neighborhood's development pipeline.Over the summer... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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The outdoor gear company’s new headquarters adds visibility to its workspaces and its work. For an outdoor clothing and gear company, L.L. Bean’s offices were surprisingly cloistered. “About 90% of our employees did not have access to natural daylight. There were parts of the building that were... Continue reading at Fast Company
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The chain’s founder is celebrating its 20th anniversary – but for a while it, and the industry as a whole, was on the brinkTim Richards is celebrating a milestone he feared he might not see – the 20th anniversary of the creation of Vue, Europe’s largest privately owned cinema chain. That... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Last week, Twitter said it would start winding down the legacy verified program on April 1st, but over the weekend, that didn't happen, because (according to The Washington Post) unverifying users is a painstaking manual process. Meanwhile, another report indicated around 10,000 of the... Continue reading at Engadget
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Publisher Texas Monthly, which marked its 50th anniversary last month, grew its overall revenue by 39% in 2022, an uptick the privately owned media company attributed to its expanded number of advertising channels and an ongoing effort to cultivate new sources of revenue. The publisher increased... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Families of people who live in a privately owned Winnipeg personal care home want to know why two care aides were allowed to work for months after allegations were brought forward that they had abused 15 residents. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2022-06-22 20:00:25 UTC ]
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Earlier this week, Club 8-bit, one of Ukraine’s largest privately-owned computer museums, was destroyed during the siege of Mariupol. Kotaku spotted news of the event after its owner, Dmitry Cherepanov, took to Facebook to share the fate of Club 8-bit.It has been reported that the Mariupol... Continue reading at Engadget
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The CEO of Storyblocks discusses three considerations for companies that want to compete in this immersive new world—one of which is to spread the wealth. Tech companies are currently stumbling over themselves to see who can make a bigger bet on the metaverse. However, beyond a massive financial... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2022-02-28 05:00:22 UTC ]
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NASA announced on Thursday it has awarded $415.6 million US to billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, stalwart contractor Northrop Grumman Corp and venture-backed Nanoracks to develop privately owned and operated commercial space stations. ... Continue reading at CBC
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Iran's state TV says a cyberattack has disrupted access to the country's privately owned Mahan Air Continue reading at ABC News
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The Vancouver Aquarium has been sold from Ocean Wise Conservation Association to Herschend Enterprises, a privately owned tourism company based in the United States. Continue reading at CBC
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Jury is out on whether video-sharing site could make Microsoft a social media giantAs the clock ticks on Microsoft’s fast-track talks to buy TikTok the jury is out on whether it marks a unique opportunity to become a global social media giant overnight, or a $50bn (£38bn) geopolitically fuelled... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The turmoil that roiled the National Book Critics Circle last week continued throughout the weekend and into Monday morning as concerns over matters of race and privacy continue to split the organization's board of directors. As of press time, at least 13 members have resigned from the typically... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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One of Nashville’s largest privately owned companies is launching an initiative aimed at bringing more diversity into the tech industry. Asurion has donated $200,000 to create a new data-science scholarship at historically black Fisk University in Nashville, according to a news release. The... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-06-09 17:16:57 UTC ]
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On March 24, President Trump told a Fox News virtual town hall that he’d love to have America “opened up and just raring to go” by Easter. Bill Hemmer, who was hosting, chuckled, and said that would be “a great American resurrection.” Later the same day, during a second appearance on Fox, Trump... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
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On December 19, police in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state, raided the privately owned City FM broadcaster, briefly detained Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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WHEN I WAS a student in Perm, Russia, my university friend told me that her grandparents were kulaks. The term dates back to the era of collectivization, a harsh agrarian reform that took place in the Soviet Union between the late 1920s and the early ’30s. Hitherto privately owned land and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
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Purchase of British Steel gives privately owned Chinese steelmaker Jingye chance to grow outside home market dominated by giant state-owned mills Continue reading at ABC News
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Judging by the dozens of cannabis pitches I receive weekly, weed—which is increasingly gaining recreational legal status across the U.S., despite the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to be arrested for it every year—is ripe for advertising opportunities. Here’s one standout cannabis... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-04 20:07:05 UTC ]
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Given the savagery with which New England Patriots dispatched the Pittsburgh Steelers, NBC executives would have been forgiven for thinking that last night’s “Sunday Night Football” opener would disappoint on the ratings front. And while viewers began tuning out once Tom Brady and Co. had... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-09 22:50:19 UTC ]
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Forget Coors Light versus Bud Light. The most compelling alcohol brand battle this summer is Truly against White Claw, the two dominant brands in the sizzling-hot alcoholic seltzer category. Neither is owned by brewing behemoths Anheuser-Busch InBev or MillerCoors, which have struggled to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-12 08:00:00 UTC ]
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