Parking Garage Being Converted to Bar, Restaurant, Performance and Rehearsal Spaces....

I should add that this is in the very early stages of planning and would require community board approval, and as the article says a similar proposal was shot down last year as the perception was that such a complex would be a gentrifying force.  Given that this would be right next to 1000 Dean, which is a fairly massive (gentrificationtastic) undertaking funded by Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group (amongst others), it'd be hard to argue that this proposal would have any more of an adverse impact than the one already in the works.  Plus, one of the knocks on 1000 Dean has been the lack of adjacent development, and this would begin to address that.  It'll be interesting to see whether the same concerns are brought up this time around, and whether they still carry the same weight in light of some of the recent adjacent development.