Just down the street from Karl Fischer’s controversial proposed Grand Street towers, ground has been broken on a smaller smaller project that is likely to go over better with the locals. The plans for 186 Grand Street call for a 4-story, 15,000-square-foot residential building “consistent in scale and style with existing neighborhood.” A local architect, Philip Toscano, is handling the job and there’s a rendering of the proposed building posted at the site. Considering that most recent construction in the ‘Burg is mainly of the Scarano and Bricolage schools, this could be a welcome addition; plus, since the site itself was a former parking lot (albeit one with a very nice willow tree in the back) there’s no destruction of the neighborhood’s former industrial heritage to bemoan. Anyone heard any chatter about this one yet? GMAP P*Shark DOB