It’s starting to look like the big development at Public Place is going to get a lot larger. The winning Hudson Companies proposal included 774 units of housing and tens of thousands of square feet of commercial and community space. When presentations were made in Carroll Gardens during the winter the possibility that an adjacent warehouse could end up being part of the plan was mentioned. The warehouse has to be demolished as part of the Public Place cleanup as it was part of the original Manufactured Gas Plant site and toxins are deep underground beneath it. The current Brooklyn Paper confirms that the warehouse owner is likely to join the Hudson Companies plan. Adding the land under the warehouse (see photo above) could bring the total number of residential units to around 1,500, dwarfing the size of the proposed Toll Brothers development, which has engendered significant opposition. In the meantime, plans for a long cleanup are still being developed as preliminary prep work continues on the site.