Only a couple of weeks after its big profile in The Times, the Brooklyn Cohousing group has had a big set-back: According to a tip we received this morning, the group pulled out of its contract to build its communal development on the site of the now-dead Carlton Mews project behind St. Michael’s Church in Fort Greene. Details are thin right now and we haven’t gotten a response to the voicemail and email we put out to Brooklyn Cohousing a couple of hours ago. Anyone got the skinny? Update: According to a representative of Brooklyn Cohousing, the costs of the Carlton Mews projects were “just too high” and the group is now actively looking at a number of other alternatives, ranging from ground-up projects to almost-complete developments.
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