25-30 Columbia Heights (Brooklyn), LLC
Lobbying client
25-30 Columbia Heights (Brooklyn), LLC is the entity, tied to real estate investment firm CIM Group, behind a plan to convert the former Watchtower headquarters on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront (bought by the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1969, originally built for Squibb) into roughly 925,000 square feet of housing and retail, including 661 residential units with 133 to 199 designated affordable. Since 2024 it has filed 24 lobbying disclosures, using Constantinople & Vallone Consulting, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to lobby 1 council member on the rezoning needed for the conversion.
- Council members lobbied
- 1
- Filings (since 2024)
- 24
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $224,941
Part of
- CIM GROUP Real-estate family
Lobbied these council members
- Lincoln Restler Council Member, District 33 (Brooklyn)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Constantinople & Vallone Consulting LLC Lobbyist firm
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP Lobbyist firm
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - City rezoning action
- Budget - City rezoning action. Supporting the client with community and stakeholder outreach for their rezoning to allow for residential use of these properties.
- Budget - Real Estate / Rezoning
- Determination of Board or Commission - An application to the City Planning Commission regarding property located at 25-30 Columbia Heights
- Determination of Board or Commission - Land use approvals related to property located at 25-30 Columbia Heights
- Resolution - Land use approvals related to property located at 25-30 Columbia Heights