Which Hot Dog Will Get the Condo-ments?
Justin aka Space Independent imagines that the condo developers must be salivating over the old Heinz building in Prospect Heights, pictured, and the Old Dutch Mustard building in Williamsburg, which is back on the market. Is anyone aware of specific plans for either site? Condo-meant Buildings [Urbanfoto]
Justin aka Space Independent imagines that the condo developers must be salivating over the old Heinz building in Prospect Heights, pictured, and the Old Dutch Mustard building in Williamsburg, which is back on the market. Is anyone aware of specific plans for either site?
Condo-meant Buildings [Urbanfoto]
Wasn’t Judleson also the guy in charge of the New York Artists Housing Coalition? I recall that they were doing interesting conversion work in NJ about 5 years back…
This is Crow Hill in Crown Heights, as mentioned in the Times article. Oh the creeping onslaught of real estate-ese!
According to DOB permit filings they just had a bunch of permits for the conversion disapproved on 10/3. Not to say they won’t be approved, they probably need to make some adjustments and re-file. Needless to say, it looks like they are trying to move forward with the work.
Very interesting! Thanks.
I have had my eye on the Heinz buildings- because I live on a nearby block. The Times article in Aug 2004 described:
“135,000 square feet in seven buildings on three tax lots from Franklin Avenue to the elevated Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and from Dean to Bergen Streets. It’s an awkwardly beautiful landscape of steel and brick, concrete and cobblestone; a one-story garage is topped by a large, lovely rusted hopper, and other buildings line up at different heights, like jagged teeth in a hobo’s mouth. Even the el is poetic, a rough river melody rolling through masonry pastures.”
The article goes on to explain that the buyers kept and renovated one building, an Icehouse (It is a good example of “green” building renovation in NYC) and they put the rest of the parcel up for sale:
“Within 11 months, the other properties were sold to Artopolis, a nonprofit arts organization, and the Community Preservation Corporation, a private mortgage lender of low- to middle-income housing, for nearly the same amount — about $2.3 million — as they had paid for the full city block. (Artopolis will develop its new property into 67 artists’ co-ops, which will list for about $250 a square foot when they are finished next year, said David Judelson, a director of Artopolis.)”
Full Article:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE7D71E3FF931A1575BC0A9629C8B63
Two years later, there is no activity, and The Atopolis website ( http://efa1.org/Artopolis/?Page=Artopolis-Home ) states only that:
“Addressing the crisis in working and living space for artists and arts organizations since 1998, Artopolis Development is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and a 501(c)(3) public charity. Its mission is to “build creative community”. In 2000 it completed construction of the twelve-story EFA Studio Center, an 87, 000 sq. ft. mid-town Manhattan project comprising 110 artist work-studios, office space, and exhibition/project space in a building owned by EFA. In partnership with Community Preservation Corporation, Artopolis is currently developing an 85-unit artist live-work co-op in Brooklyn. Several additional projects for artist space are in pre-development.”
There is a contact on the site – so you might drop them a line for more info.