Condos (?) at 324 Bedford Humming Along
We drove past this development at Bedford and South 2nd this weekend. When we moved out of our South 4th Street digs last Summer, this was just getting going. Mrs. B commented that at least they were doing something interesting with the windows. From the looks of it, the building will have some of the…
We drove past this development at Bedford and South 2nd this weekend. When we moved out of our South 4th Street digs last Summer, this was just getting going. Mrs. B commented that at least they were doing something interesting with the windows. From the looks of it, the building will have some of the double-height ceilinged living rooms with mezzanine bedrooms that have been popping up elsewhere in the nabe. Anyone know who the architect or developer is or what broker will by marketing this? GMAP
Correct address is 135 South 2nd Street. Another Scarano Self-Certified Job.
ps. Did you guys know that when Peter Luger was finally convinced by some needling health inspector to exterminate, its population of rats dispersed into the surrounding neighborhood, infesting everyone’s homes with the rodents. I just found this out from our structural engineer, who’d worked with the owners of Peter Luger back in the rat days.
At least you don’t have a rat from that lot. I guess that’s what the cat is for.
whoops thats 342 bedford
http://www.thedevelopersgroup.com/buildings/building.aspx?buildingid=1039&
The second building on South 3rd was part of the same development site – maybe the developer split it off when he bought it. I have a cat from that lot.
Same design, and the scale seems to fit there too – it transitions nicely from Bedford the flats on South 3rd.
The one at the corner of South 3rd, is 342 Bedford, it has been mentioned here a few times, in the beginning it looked like a real ugly fedders box, but the developer has done a very nice job in finishing it, and he is already building another building on south 3rd St., right next to 342.
This and the other new buildings in that section of Bedford are among the better additions, context-wise. This one is a little to incomplete for final judgement, but the gray-brick one at South 3rd is looking good (I don’t like the set back from the property line, though). Likewise, the building that was completed a few years ago on the corner of South 1st has been a good addition too.
Bedford (south of Grand) seems to one area where the quality of design is higher and the scale of the new developments fits in with its surroundings.
The quality of design falls off significantly north of Grand – the Bricolage fedders box at the old Yabby sight is looking like all it shouldn’t be.
I think so many modern projects (like State St) look so much better in the computer-generated image than IRL.