Development Watch: 180 Myrtle Avenue
Just down the block from where Avalon Bay plans to build its 42-story tower sits a far larger lot at 180 Myrtle Avenue. With a footprint of 120,000 square feet, this site could hold a massive building. To date, all that’s on record are some demolition permits and a big fat Stop Work Order. Last…
Just down the block from where Avalon Bay plans to build its 42-story tower sits a far larger lot at 180 Myrtle Avenue. With a footprint of 120,000 square feet, this site could hold a massive building. To date, all that’s on record are some demolition permits and a big fat Stop Work Order. Last we heard, supermarket and real estate mogul John Catsimatidis was planning to build a 400-foot-tall structure with a million square feet of space. Anyone have the latest and greatest on this one? GMAP P*Shark DOB
4:12, I will be surprised if someone who owns supermarkets (Catsimatidis owns Gristedes and Sloans) lets the competition open a store on the site.
Poor ol’ “Murder” Avenue, turning into the Upper East Side before our very eyes . . .
Can we please get a Whole Foods of our own in that supermarket space?
180 Myrtle Avenue is the Catsimatidis/Red Apple site. Although a single tax lot, the last design I saw read as several buildings with separate entrances. The BFC Partners (Capoccia is the “C”) project is opposite the Avalon Bay site, on the southeast corner of Flatbush and Myrtle. The last sentence in the 12:23 post seems to refer to the BFC building and the largest of the Red Apple buildings.
is this the “other by someone else”
Mytle/Flatbush Extension
Developed by Don Capoccia and BFC Partners, the Pratt Area Community Council and the Red Apple Group
Financed by the Housing Development Corporation
The initial plan specifies 500+ units with a 50-30-20 division on the eastern side of the site and an 80-20 division on the western side
It was designated as an “area appropriate for urban renewal” in 2004 if that means anything.
This is what someone posted a couple days ago in the most recent thread on the Avalon Bay project:
“richard dattner is the architect … no images on his website yet.
as i recall, four buildings ranging in height from six to 10 stories (or thereabout, this is from memory), plus two 400-foot buildings (one by same developer, the other by someone else) straddling demapped prince street…. ground floor retail, including a supermarket and the return of the chain pharmacy. affordable units sprinkled through the lower buildings. i think that’s all i remember.”
The “other by someone else” building is the BFC project on the triangular lot bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Myrtle Avenue and (the demapped) Prince Street.
The Pratt Area Community Council is marketing/managing the affordable units.