The CPC’s vote in favor of the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, a community-led proposal that will deliver new housing, jobs, and investments in infrastructure in Brooklyn was celebrated today. The plan would create 4,600 new homes — including 1,440 permanently income-restricted, affordable homes — and 2,800 permanent jobs to a roughly 21-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Central Brooklyn, including neighboring blocks in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Alongside new housing and jobs, the plan includes significant investments in local infrastructure and amenities, such as new and improved open space and traffic safety improvements.

Over the past decade, DCP has worked closely with Brooklyn Community Board 8 and local stakeholders to develop a vision for a more dynamic, mixed-use Atlantic Avenue. The official study for the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan kicked off in early 2023 with New York City Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Chi Ossé, engagement facilitator WXY Studio, Community Boards 2, 3, and 8, and agency partners. The process included over 20 meetings: three public community planning workshops, nine public working group meetings on three topic areas, and nine steering committee meetings to help shape the plan, which culminated in the release of the Community Vision and Priorities Report in 2023.