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Proposed Burg Rose Plaza on the River Rendered

Last week, we had some details about a proposed development on the South Williamsburg waterfront that would be called Rose Plaza on the River. It would go on a large site north of the big power plant on Kent Avenue that Con Edison is currently demolishing and south of Schaefer Landing. Brownstoner got info from City Planning about the size of the three buildings that are planned: 801 units of housing and 29,000 square feet of commercial space, plus a waterfront esplanade. The buildings would be 28, 24 and 18 stories in height. In any case, we came across this rendering on the Gene Kaufman Architect website. Mr. Kaufman also designed neighboring Schaefer Landing, which is much smaller, with a 25-story building and two 15-story buildings with 350 units. Rose Plaza would cover four acres, and they have to be rezoned. The Kaufman site lists it as a $375 million project with a 2009 completion date, which may have to be tweaked a bit.
· South Williamsburg to Get 'Rose Plaza on the River' [Curbed]
· Big in the Burg: Rose Plaza on the River [Brownstoner]

South Williamsburg Getting a Little More Religion

The orthodox Jews of Williamsburg are certainly no strangers to big real estate undertakings, but even this photo passed on to us by a Curbed tipster gave us pause. Woo boy, that's some rendering. And so mysterious! Tippy McGee writes:

The building is in south williambsurg, on Clymer St, between Division and Berry. From the rendering it looks more like a community center than residential space, but then again I don't know hebrew. Anyway, ive never seen a rendering like this. If someone at curbed knows what's going on here id love to hear bout it.

That location doesn't make total sense—Berry ends at Division and Clymer is south of that—but luckily we do speak Hebrew, kinda. The top says something about the creator of the universe and blah blah blah (look, we said kinda), and the bottom says "Here is going to be built, with God's help, a school to teach the Torah and a love of Israel." South Williamsburg. So Will. SoWill. Soul. It's all starting to make sense to us.
· If You Prick Us, Do We Not FreshDirect? [Curbed]