When we wrote about 330 Park Place back in January, we tried to retain a glimmer of hope that the developer, who’s bulking the building up from 2,500-square-foot one family to a 6,300-square-foot five-family, might not completely destroy the streetscape in the process. We stopped by last weekend and, needless to say, those hopes were unfounded. Not only does the building feel more out-of-scale in person than on film, one can also see certain details which reveal the extent of the developer’s slavish devotion to FAR maximization at the expense of proportion, design and neighborliness. The crowning jewel? He’s built the right side of the building out by a foot or two into the alley way on the west side of the house, so that the body of the house no longer lines up the the edge of the porch molding. Check out the photo on the jump. It’s ridiculous! GMAP P*Shark DOB
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