At the Brooklyn end the area has been recently redeveloped with parks, piers and a carousel.
The lower space will be redeveloped with help from Serge Becker, who owns La Esquina and Café Select nearby: 380 Lafayette Street (Great Jones Street), (212) 533-7000.
The Atlanta BeltLine, a former railroad corridor that is being redeveloped with bike trails, green space and, eventually, a light rail system, is less than a block away.
Debris-littered lots on Longwood's western edge had already been redeveloped with two-family homes, and by 1994 blighted stretches of Longwood Avenue were handsomely filled in with rows of government-subsidized two-story red-brick dwellings.
By the 1980s most of the old wharves had been demolished and the entire waterfront redeveloped with hotels, shops, offices, a cultural centre, and cruise and cargo ship facilities.
"During the boom years, so much of Dublin was redeveloped, with little thought given to how those who live and work in the new city apartments and offices would connect to each other and their locality," Mullan says.
"The site has been redeveloped with abundant references to the glorious days of the department store's best years but without any display that references the fact that the original owners were forced to relinquish ownership and flee," said Deidre Berger, director of the American Jewish Committee's Berlin office.
Woodstock - site to be redeveloped with an on-site police facility.
The 150-acre site is redeveloped with 5100 homes and over 1,000,000 square feet of retail and office space.
