Agency Weighs Fate of Sugar Plant
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The fate of the old Domino sugar plant in Brooklyn is being decided today by the city’s Landmark’s Preservation Commission. If the panel gives landmark status to three buildings, it could affect how the 11-acre site is developed.
The sugar plant closed in January 2004, after 148 years.
The plant was bought in 2001 by the American Sugar Refining Co., which decided to close it. Company officials said the Brooklyn plant was not equipped to compete with its plants in Baltimore, Yonkers, N.Y., and outside New Orleans.
