Community development board members have some questions about the long-delayed housing LCOR, Cirrus and ESD plan to build atop the Atlantic Terminal rail yards. “The goal of this sequencing and this structure is to ensure that the largest buildings with the most and deepest affordability are commencing as quickly as possible,” Arden Sokolow, Empire State Development’s executive vice president of real estate and planning, said at an Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation board meeting Monday. The proposed amount of deeply affordable units and the metrics being used to determine their affordability raised red flags for at least two board members. […]
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