A new luxury rental tower will open this fall on Flatbush Avenue, near the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Barclays Center, helping to transform an area once lined with parking lots into an upscale residential enclave. The building, at 300 Ashland Place, is a 379-unit development from Two Trees Management Company with a distinctive metal facade, dazzling views and dance studios for public performances.

“It’s finally getting a sense of place,” David J. Maundrell, the founder and president of Aptsandlofts.com, a residential real estate brokerage not involved in the project, said of the area. “It’s become like the gateway to Downtown Brooklyn.”

Rising near a spot where several neighborhoods meet, 300 Ashland, which is bordered by Flatbush and Lafayette Avenues, is technically part of Fort Greene, a neighborhood filled with low-slung rowhouses, and is also near Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill and Park Slope.

But the soaring tower, which has 35 numbered stories, is more stylistic kin to Downtown Brooklyn, which in the past decade has sprouted several neck-craning towers. Designed by TEN Arquitectos, Enrique Norten’s firm, the tower seems to pay tribute to its location near car-packed Flatbush with its facade, blanketed with 15,653 aluminum panels that evoke machinery.