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See High Line Architect's Vision for Williamsburg's Waterfront Domino Park

By Gwynne Hogan | April 21, 2017 4:48pm | Updated on April 24, 2017 8:29am
 The park will open in the summer of 2018, according to the property's developers Two Trees.
Domino Sugar Factory's Waterfront Park
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WILLIAMSBURG — The lead architects behind Manhattan's High Line have been tapped to design Domino Park — six acres of waterfront parkland being built by Two Trees Management as part of its redevelopment of the former sugar factory.

The park will feature an "Artifact Walk," or an elevated stretch of catwalk that will showcase salvaged pieces of industrial equipment from the original Domino Sugar Factory, like a pair of 80-foot-tall cranes, 36-foot-tall cylindrical tanks used to collect syrup, bucket elevators, and columns from the original warehouse, according to the developer. 

The space is set to open to the public in the summer of 2018.

Designed by landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations, Domino Park will also incorporate a waterfront esplanade, sports fields, lawns and gardens and a children's play area.

The parkland is part of a sprawling redevelopment project at the former sugar factory and nearby sites that will include a 380,000-square-foot office campus and 2,800 apartments, 700 of which will be subsidized for low- and moderate-income tenants.

The application process for the subsidized units at 325 Kent Ave., the first residential building nearing completion, drew in 87,000 interested New Yorkers for just 104 apartments. 

Leasing for the market-rate apartments at 325 Kent Ave., where construction worker Wilfredo Enriquez died in December, starts in June.