Della Valle ’93, an architect and developer, strives to build innovative, sustainable buildings. An all-electric skyscraper in Brooklyn is his latest project.
In a downtown Brooklyn neighborhood rises a new, forward-thinking development that includes an all-electric skyscraper and schools built for maximum energy efficiency. Jared Della Valle ’93 is designing and developing the Alloy Block, which, when completed, will have five buildings with combined office space for 1,000 people, 850 homes, two schools and cultural and retail spaces. The block is taking shape on Flatbush Avenue, adjacent to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barclay's Center and the Atlantic Terminal, New York City's second-largest transit hub.
Della Valle, who majored in architecture and urban studies at Lehigh, started his Brooklyn-based company Alloy Development 17 years ago in the borough’s DUMBO section—Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass—where he works to develop innovative, sustainable buildings with a reduced carbon footprint. His office building is only 200 yards from his home in a Brillo Warehouse that he converted into 10 luxury condominiums in 2013.
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