When the developer of 330 Park Place started butchering the charming house he had just bought back in the fall of 2006, alarmed neighbors wrote in to us about it. Their alarm proved to be justified, as the developer proceeded to lop off the second story of the hundred-year-old house in preparation for stacking four new levels on top of the existing parlor floor. Last year wrote this about the building: “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.” Now the property is on the market as five condo units ranging in price from $695,000 for a 1,087-square-foot duplex to $899,000 for a 1,671-square-foot duplex with garden. Judging from the quality of the kitchen cabinets and the choice of baseboard heating, this conversion isn’t exactly screaming “high end” to us.
330 Park Place Condos [Ahrlty.com] GMAP P*Shark
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