The Brooklyn Cultural District (formerly known as the BAM-Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District ) is a $100 million development project that focuses on the arts, public spaces and affordable housing[ 1] in Fort Greene, Brooklyn , New York. The project reflected the joint efforts of New York City's Economic Development Corporation , the Department of Cultural Affairs , the Department of Housing Preservation and Development , the Department of City Planning , and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership to continue to develop the Brooklyn neighborhood area. Joining the area's longtime institutional stakeholders (BAM, the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library ) are new homes for Mark Morris Dance Group , Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), UrbanGlass and BRIC Arts and the BAM's Fisher Building .
The district, roughly bounded by Flatbush Avenue , Fulton Street and Hanson Place,[ 2] has been developed since 2004 when 80 Arts/the James E. Davis Arts Building was renovated to be home to twelve nonprofit arts groups. After a series of stops and starts during which the district's future was uncertain,[ 3] this was followed in 2008 by the opening of the Irondale Center for Theater, Education and Outreach in the historic Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church.[ 4] Performing arts spaces, ISSUE Project Room at 22 Boerum Place, and BAM Fisher at 321 Ashland Place, followed in 2012 and TFANA's new building opened for performances in 2014.[ 1]
Additional theater space that is home to Bang on a Can and Cool Culture opened in 2019, as did BAM Park , which was originally funded in 2014.[ 5] [ 2] [ 6] [ 7] BAM South , also known as 300 Ashland, developed by Two Trees provides affordable housing and an additional cultural component with homes for the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts , a Brooklyn Public Library branch and an expansion of BAM Cinemas to be known as BAM Karen .[ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
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^ a b "Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District" . New York City Economic Development Corporation . Retrieved April 14, 2014 .
^ a b "The Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District" . Theatre for a New Audience . December 20, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
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^ "Cultural District" . Downtown Brooklyn Partnership . Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
^ "Fort Greene's Long-Delayed BAM Park is Finally Open" . August 8, 2019.
^ Dailey, Jessica (January 9, 2014). "The Great Outdoors" . Curbed . Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
^ Frost, Mary (February 22, 2016). "Neighbors: What's under the ground at BAM Park?" . Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
^ Dailey, Jessica (November 12, 2013). "BAM Wire" . Curbed . Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
^ Warekar, Tanay (January 11, 2017). "Brooklyn Cultural District's 300 Ashland reveals its amenity spaces" . Curbed New York . Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
^ Pogrebin, Robin (April 28, 2015). "Brooklyn Academy of Music To Name New Space After Outgoing President" . New York Times . Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
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