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Seven developers vying to build Brooklyn Bridge Park condos and hotel

Some of the city’s top developers are competing for the right to build new high-rise luxury condos and a hotel at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

City officials last night released renderings from seven developers seeking to build 180 condo units and a 225-room hotel loaded with amenities by Pier 1 in Brooklyn Heights.

Among the suitors is developer Robert A. Levine, who built the 85-acre waterfront project’s lone condo tower to date: the 440-unit One Brooklyn Bridge Park tower off Pier 5.

Others include Toll Brothers, DUMBO development giant David Walentas’ company Two Trees Management and Extell Development.

Many residents attending the Borough Hall meeting ripped the plans, saying the new development proposed would create neighborhood traffic woes and turn the public park into little more than a fancy backyard for condo buyers.

“This turns our park that we’ve fought 25 years to get built into a mall,” said Cobble Hill activist Roy Sloane.

But city officials said revenues generated from the new development are essential to complete the park plan, which is being built piecemeal due to budget constraints.

“This is a great milestone for the park. We’ve received some very strong proposals,” said Regina Myer, president of city’s Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp.

Officials said construction would begin in 2013 and be finished by 2015.

When complete, the city expects the park to hold more than 1,200 condos to raise money to offset the park’s $16.1 million annual maintenance costs. This includes new housing towers for two other locations: John Street in DUMBO and at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Heights.

Two Trees Management

Toll Brothers

Starwood Capital Group

SDS Leeser Architects

RAL Development

Extell Development