Developers of the Anagram residence tower under building on the Gowanus Canal launched new pictures of the undertaking, which will have 158 rental items, shops and workplaces.

The constructing at 450 Union St. is rising to 20 tales above the once poisonous, (principally) cleaned-up waterway that emerged as the neighborhood’s scenic centerpiece.

A rendering of the 20-story Anagram residences tower alongside the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Tankhouse

The undertaking by Global Holdings, MacArthur Holdings and Brooklyn-based Tankhouse, designed by architectural agency SO-IL, will embrace a public waterfront esplanade. Leasing will begin in early 2027. 

Gowanus has loved a rental-apartment increase since the metropolis rezoned 82 blocks in the space. A file 4,000 new items were created in 2025, with a complete of 9,000 projected finally.

Leasing at the Anagram residence tower is to start early next yr. Tankhouse

Anagram will embrace a publicly accessible waterfront esplanade and 22,000 sq. toes of industrial and group area. Tankhouse

Yet despite the neighborhood’s plain attraction, a tendentious New York journal article this month questioned why anyone would need to dwell there and strained to solid shade on the entire Gowanus scene.

But writing in the Manhattan Institute’s indispensable City Journal, Mark Gimein, a completely happy Gowanus resident, called out the article for embracing the “backwards logic that permeates discussions of development” — i.e., complaints that no inexpensive new housing is “affordable” enough and obsession with overblown environmental points that bother few individuals other than woke ideologues.