Though Columbia Street seems like one massive construction site nowadays, the thoroughfare doesn’t boast much in the way of new building projects. One big exception is an assisted living center on the rise at 169-177 Columbia, a development that will reportedly have 56 residential units c/o a Manhattan-based enterprise called the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. Work on the building—which was held up for more than a decade while the city, state and developer were at loggerheads over questions of who had the rights to the site—is now progressing at a steady clip. The Postgraduate Center, which is in the business of training health care providers as well as running residential facilities for the mentally ill, didn’t return calls asking when the Columbia Street center is going to be up and running. Nabe residents: Glad something’s finally taking shape, or uneasy about the building’s future tenants?
New Assisted Living Center May Soon Come to Columbia St [Brooklyn Eagle] GMAP