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Atlantic Yards’ last developer broke its affordable housing promise and the state never collected the penalties. The new team is promising 1,200 units by 2031

Cirrus and LCOR target a 2028 groundbreaking at Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards to deliver 1,200 affordable apartments by 2031, as advocates seek accountability.

The open Atlantic Yards rail yard, with several sets of tracks, runs toward apartment towers and the Downtown Brooklyn skyline at dusk.
The Atlantic Yards rail yard in Prospect Heights, where the developers plan to build over the tracks, in October 2023. Photo: AlanKHG / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Atlantic Yards’ last developer broke its affordable housing promise and the state never collected the penalties. The new team is promising 1,200 units by 2031

Cirrus and LCOR target a 2028 groundbreaking at Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards to deliver 1,200 affordable apartments by 2031, as advocates seek accountability.

Atlantic Yards’ last developer broke its affordable housing promise and the state never collected the penalties. The new team is promising 1,200 units by 2031

The developers planning the next phase of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project said Monday they are targeting a 2028 groundbreaking on buildings that would deliver about 1,200 affordable apartments by 2031, according to BK Reader.

At an Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation directors’ meeting, Joseph McDonnell, a managing director at Cirrus Workforce Housing, said the development team has a “fairly ambitious goal” to…

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