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Last night the Clarett Group made a presentation at a community meeting about the firm’s plans for a development at 340 Court Street that will rise in place of the under-demolition International Longshoremen’s Association building between Union and Sackett. The Rogers Marvel-designed development Clarett currently foresees in Carroll Gardens will involve 14 townhouses on Sackett and Union streets, and a large multi-unit building fronting Court Street. Several blogs covered the meeting, and by all accounts the community members gathered last night seemed quite wary of Clarett’s plans. The audience booed the rendering of the Court Street building (above), according to Gowanus Lounge, and many vocally objected to its dark color and height. Counting mechanical equipment on the roof, the building could be around 85 feet tall. “We’re designing with the existing zoning,” GL quotes Clarett’s Daniel Hollander as saying. “Many developers felt a big tower would have been the way to go.” The unit mix will range from studios to four bedrooms, and there will be retail space on Court Street. According to Lost City, architect Rob Rogers said the building on Court will sport a “‘fabricated cement board’ meant to simulated stone”; LC writes that “since Rogers Marvel did seem to have made a thorough study on the neighborhood (based on their film presentation), it did seem an odd choice of color and material. I don’t know of any other buildings on Court Street of that color or gloomy appearance.” Pardon Me for Asking, meanwhile, writes that “The Clarett Group faced a very skeptical crowd at P.S.58 last night. This is a community that has been to one too many meetings about planned developments lately.”
340 Court Developer Presents Plans to Skeptical CG Crowd [Gowanus Lounge] GMAP
Meet Clarett’s New Carroll Gardens “Mausoleum” [Lost City]
CG Not Exactly Loving Clarett’s 340 Union Design [PMFA]
Photo of rendering from Gowanus Lounge .


What's Your Take? Leave a Comment

  1. To all you NIMBY’S- STOP, THINK! when was the last time you got laid? 3:26 is right on, if you guys had a life you wouln’t be so worried about this. If this was next door to my house I would shrug my shoulders and so be it. This is becaue I have a life. The reason you Nimby’s get press is because the majority of us who have lives can’t be bothered to come down to a community board meeting etc. to shut your lame asses up, but 60 seconds on a blog that I can do. Just read the blogs the tide is against you losers.

  2. I read on another blog that someone in the audience at the meeting suggested no elevators in a seven-story building as a way to keep the height down. Well, what about the elderly and the disabled?!

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