New Residential Tower Powered by Off-Site Solar Power Debuts in Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn has become the home of New York City’s first residential development that is fully powered by off-site solar power. Part of a multi-building project by Alloy Development, the new mixed-use 399,709-square-foot building located at 505 State Street stands 482 linear feet and hosts 441 residential rental units of which 45-units have been designated for affordable housing. Radial Power and MaxSolar will fully power the building with renewable energy under two new 25-year community solar agreements, of which 900 kilowatts will be generated from Radial Power’s rooftop solar array at Gateway Mall in Brooklyn and up to 2.4 megawatts will be supplied by MaxSolar’s Old Mill project in Yorktown, New York. Although it is uncertain if project plans have changed, but reports back in 2020 indicated that the other phases of the project that spreads across the entire 61,399-square-foot triangular block bound by Flatbush and 3rd Avenues and State and Schermerhorn Streets will add a 350-seat lower school and 350-seat Kalil Gibran International Academy replacement school, as well as 50,000 square feet of retail space, 245,000 square feet of office space, and 15,000 square feet of community facility space. The project will spread across an assemblage originally comprised of 6 parcels — one of which is city-owned and is being constructed in collaboration with the Educational Construction Fund (ECF).