Council Member Restler discusses 289 Kent Avenue and thanks staff
Restler describes the 289 Kent waterfront project at the old Vice headquarters, notes nearly 300 units and support for Gallion Arts, thanks his team and the land use team, and asks colleagues to support the projects.
Secondly, we're rezoning 289 Kent, which is right on the waterfront in Williamsburg.
This site may be familiar to many here.
It was the old headquarters for Vice.
It's a vacant building, and we're going to be building some housing.
Modeled kind of after the building just down the block at 325 Kent, this will be a step-down kind of housing development with more density on the Kent side, less density toward White.
We'll be generating nearly 300 units of housing here, so we're adding about 1,000 units of housing across our district today.
And these are really good projects.
The owner at 289 Kent is also very graciously helping to support one of the cultural organizations in our community to help them stay in our neighborhood long term.
Gallion Arts, which I really appreciate.
I really want to thank my team for their hard work on this, particularly Hana Aida and Molly Haley.
And I want to thank the land use team for their smart and thoughtful advice.
Lena, Brian, William, Ann, and Omar, whoever else helped, thank you all.
I really appreciate you.
And I hope my colleagues will support these projects.
They're really good projects that are the right type of development for our community long term.