MTA tests rezoning upside with Pacific Street offering
March 28, 2026
The Real Deal
The MTA is taking a swing at cashing in on Brooklyn’s latest rezoning wave, putting a long-overlooked Pacific Street parking lot on the block with residential upside baked in. The agency issued an RFP for 1119 Pacific Street, a 30,000-square-foot site it has used for parking since 2009. The offering is straightforward — sell the land to fund the transit system’s capital program — but the real story is what changed: zoning.
Until recently, the parcel was hemmed in by low-density commercial and industrial restrictions. Now it can support roughly 300 apartments. That shift is the direct result of two []This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.
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