Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce honors 11 construction projects. (Transcripts).During its 3rd Annual Building Brooklyn Awards ceremony, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce recognized 11 recent construction projects for making a significant investment in the borough-more than $360 million-and enhancing Brooklyn's economy and quality of life. "Tonight we are showing our gratitude to the individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to make Brooklyn and the City of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of a better place to live and work," Kenneth Adams, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. The 11 construction projects honored during the event at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). include: * The Brooklyn Tabernacle Tabernacle (tăb`ərnăk'əl), in the Bible, the portable holy place of the Hebrews during their desert wanderings. It was a tent, like the portable tent-shrines used by ancient Semites, set up in each camp; eventually it housed the Ark in the Community Facility category-restoration of the abandoned Loew's Metropolitan Theater into a multi-faceted religious and community center and home for Brooklyn Tabernacle's five-time Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow. winning choir * Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Residence Hall at Polytechnic University
* The Prospect Park Audubon Center, at the Boat House in the Cultural Facility category-restoration of the historic Prospect Park Boat House, creating the first urban Audubon Center in the nation * Brooklyn College Brooklyn College: see New York, City University of. Library in the Education category-complete renovation combining neo-Georgian architecture with a modern addition to create a state-of-the-art 385,000-SF library facility * 37 Greenpoint Avenue in the Industrial category - a manufacturing and design center that brought 24 companies to Greenpoint from canoe making to clothes tailoring, rejuvenating the area with jobs * Rice in the Neighborhood Retail category-new DUMBO restaurant added a necessary amenity for the hundreds of office workers and residents in this popular new community * Gilbert Ramirez Park in the Park category-redesign and reconstruction of a one acre neighborhood park in East Williamsburg, spurring development around the park and the surrounding neighborhood * Kings Plaza Kings Plaza is a shopping center located within the Marine Park/Mill Basin section of Brooklyn, which opened in 1970. Originally consisting of the now defunct Alexander's, as well as Macy's department store chains, it began to operate a branch of Sears in 1997, and underwent Shopping Center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in the Regional Retail: Renovation category-a complete overhaul, transforming the 30-year-old center into a modem shopping environment for the new millennium * Gateway Center in the Regional Retail: New Construction Category-transformed approximately 50 acres of a former landfill into a retail center featuring 640,000 SF of destination retail, adding 1,700 jobs to the local economy * The Smith Gray Building in the Residential category-preserved a classic Brooklyn cast-iron loft building and converted it into 40 loft-style apartments * Gibb Mansion in the Residential/Non-Profit category-restoration of an 1850's grand mansion in Clinton Hill to create 71 studio apartments for low-income neighborhood residents. |
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