FATE OF DOMINO SUGAR PLANT DISCUSSED BY LANDMARKS

This from New York 1:

The Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing Tuesday to
discuss whether or not to designate the refinery building at Brooklyn’s
Domino Sugar Plant a landmark.

Community activists and the building’s owner – the Community
Preservation Corporation – want to landmark the refinery building on
the site. Activists, however, want to landmark the entire 11.5 acre
site.

If the commission designates the site a landmark, CPC plans to
develop the building as a residential property under the landmark code.
The corporation says they want to create affordable housing, plus open
park space and waterfront access. They say they need to clear the rest
of site to make their development plans economically feasible.

Preservations say they want the processing plant and several other buildings on the site left alone.

A vote on the matter will take place later this summer.