Just over the fence from 237 Carlton is the huge empty lot at Number 233 that backs up onto the church property at 232 Adelphi. One of the group that’s developing the combined site was holding court in the basement of 237 Carlton, with plans and model on display (presumably the same ones discussed here). We’re pretty sure that the 233 and 237 are part of the same lot, and if you look at the model it appears that they are planning to build behind and above the side extension of Number 237. The general plan is to build contextual townhouses and the drawings look fairly encouraging, however, the devil is really in the details for this kind of thing; our suggestion that they use old salvaged brick for the facade seemed to fall on deaf ears and was countered with something about a “modern interpretation” of the other townhouses on the block. We’ll see. While the developers have had a lot of back-and-forth with Landmarks, nothing has been approved yet. GMAP
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