Bklink: Jail with Retail with Nine Lives

The jail with retail idea is still alive even if the jail with retail & condos scheme crashed and burned and the jail with school concept was DOA. Now, the city has trotted out a rendering from no less than Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to try to build support for doubling the capacity of the Brooklyn Detention Center at Atlantic and Smith and ringing it with retail. They even tossed Trader Joe's into the image as a "placeholder."--Daily Intel