Tag: development
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Monthly Office Suites at 33 Nassau
Also from the Real Deal, 33 Nassau Avenue (you probably know it as the Spritzenhaus Building) is leasing monthly office space on its second floor.
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175 Kent Fully Leased
The Real Deal reports that 175 Kent Avenue – a 112-unit building at the corner of North 3rd Street – is now full leased. What really caught my eye, though, was some of the broker babble: The 112-unit rental conversion at 175 Kent Avenue… Conversion from what? This is a new building. Never lived in.…
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Who’s Behind the Blight?
Turns out that a lot of the stalled construction sites in Williamsburg (corner of South 4th and Bedford, 212-218 North 9th, 237-243 North 9th, 261-263 North 9th) are owned by the same pair of developers. Who also own the converted loft building at 100 South 4th Street and the vacated loft building at 239 Banker…
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Rose Plaza Now a Conversion?
Rose Plaza: Not Coming Soon to a Waterfront Near You?? Brownstoner reports this morning that 484 Kent Avenue has a DOB permit to convert the top two floors of the building to 30 residential units. The ground floor will remain as warehouse use. Presumably, this means that the grand plans for Rose Plaza – and…
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Bushwick Creek, The Movie
Filmmaker Brian Walsh has made a movie about Bushwick Creek and what lies beneath. The movie was based in part (or maybe inspired by is a better phrase) a blog post I wrote over four years ago, and which was, in turn, inspired by Bob Guskind’s reporting on the “Roebling Oil Field”. Brian’s film is…
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NEWSFLASH: Bedford Avenue Station is Crowded
The MTA has released its station ridership figures for 2010. As always, this was a big day around Brooklyn11211 (and at Second Avenue Sagas). The big news – which should be a surprise to absolutely no one – is that the Bedford Avenue station continues to add riders. In fact, we broke 7,000,000 riders in…
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Edge Selling More Units
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/the-edge-by-jeffrey-levine-chairman-of-douglaston-development-selling-more-units-than-any-other-nyc-building-including-be-schermerhorn
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Williamsburg, Rocked
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/nyregion/gentrification-brings-discord-to-williamsburg-brooklyn.html
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For Williamsburg Renters, Look But Don’t Swim
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/nyregion/brooklyn-neighbors-share-landlord-but-not-amenities.html
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A Better Look at Triangle Court
Triangle Court (proposed) Architect: KOH Architecture Photo: KOH Architecture via Curbed Yesterday, Curbed posted a better image of Triangle Court. Here it is in all it’s glory. The building will occupy the former gas station site on the western half of the triangle formed by Grand, Keap and Borinquen. The future of the rest of…