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Streetlife
Originally known as MetroTech Center, Brooklyn Commons is a 16-acre, 12-building property built in the 1980s as a self-contained office park for data processing centers and back offices for financial institutions. Site owner Brookfield Properties recently undertook a $50 million renovation of the superblock, revitalizing it as a thriving urban hub. In addition to upgrades to three of Metrotech's twelve buildings, a central 3.6-acre green space, now called Brooklyn Commons Park, was refurbished in an undertaking by Field Operations . The project includes enhanced lighting, new wayfinding elements and signage, reimagined planting, and a Streetlife furnishing concept that fosters opportunities for both pragmatic and spontaneous social engagement while navigating the unique challenges of an existing urban site condition. Existing Site Conditions and Challenges: The refurbished landscape at Brooklyn Commons centers around Myrtle Promenade. This publicly accessible pedestrian corridor connects Jay Street to Flatbush Avenue and runs tangentially to a green space called 'The Commons.' Numerous electrical and civil services lines and a subway line run beneath the site. These conditions dictated that any landscape additions or interventions be movable or designed to accommodate access for maintenance of underground services. Further, five existing concrete curbed planters on Myrtle Promenade were to be retained and integrated into a site solution that could refresh the appearance of the aging landscape features while adding seating and more diverse ways to occupy space.
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