I guess the architects are drawing on the aesthetics of the existing building on the site?
302 Broadway (existing condition)
PAUL Reveals Updated Renderings For 302 Broadway
Luxury Williamsburg Apartment Building Turns Out To Be Death-Trap
Started in one real estate boom by a sketchy developer, stalled and vacant for many years, and finished quickly during the current real estate boom. Shockingly, it turns out that the construction may be shoddy and structurally unsound.
Interestingly, this property has a checkered development history that goes back to the 1880s.
Revealed: 79 Quay Street
Wow – this will be something (and another something from Cayuga). The nondescript one-story warehouse on Quay Street will be demolished, and the only slightly more descript building at the corner of Quay and West will be retained.
It really does seem like the Greenpoint waterfront is about to become something very different.
Watch This Building’s Wall Collapse Onto a Brooklyn Woman
Scary shades of construction booms past. DNA has more info on the collapse, including a quote from the “sad” building engineer.
11 Broadway Update
From Curbed, 11 Broadway gets a new (tan) facade. The building is about halfway up, and Curbed reports that it is slated to open (possibly with a grocery store) towards the end of 2012.
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. Doesn’t a building have to have some sort of prior use to be a conversion?
…the Williamsburg waterfront property…
The waterfront is a block away. Now either side of Kent Avenue is “waterfront”.