In a few weeks, management of the revitalization of the BAM Cultural District in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood will fall into the hands of the newly formed Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, an entity that will include the Downtown Brooklyn Council, the Fulton Mall Improvement Association, the MetroTech Business Improvement District and the BAM Local Development Corporation, which was the previous overseer of the plans for the project. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the city asked the Theater for a New Audience to move the site of its first permanent home—a Frank Gehry- and Hugh Hardy-designed glass and stainless steel building with 299 seats, rehearsal space, and a 50-seat studio—across the street to the corner of Flatbush and Lafayette avenues, next to the Mark Morris Dance Center. Previously the theater was slated to occupy a space across Lafayette and next to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Peter Jay Sharp Building.
Also part of the revitalization of the BAM Cultural District will be the construction of the Brooklyn Visual and Performing Arts Library. Architect Enrique Norten designed the library, which will sit on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Hanson Place.
While city officials estimate the theater will be completed by 2009, the library, ridden with fund-raising problems, does not have an expected opening date.
Posted 08.16.06
Also part of the revitalization of the BAM Cultural District will be the construction of the Brooklyn Visual and Performing Arts Library. Architect Enrique Norten designed the library, which will sit on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Hanson Place.
While city officials estimate the theater will be completed by 2009, the library, ridden with fund-raising problems, does not have an expected opening date.
Posted 08.16.06
