After serving as a controversial migrant shelter, the huge former factory and warehouse complex at 47 Hall Street in Clinton Hill will be redeveloped as mixed income housing with a new skyscraper and adaptive reuse of existing factory buildings, some of which were originally home to the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.

The rezoning needed to build the project, which will include around 611 apartments, kicked off public review early this year. On Thursday, Aug. 14 the full City Council approved the rezoning.

At an Aug. 6 Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises meeting, council members required the development team behind the proposal, RXR, build using option one of the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program . That option requires 25% of the total apartments built, or 153 units, are m

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