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June 7, 2006

Washington Avenue: This Could Be Huge

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This mama is big! Given its pivotal location on the heretofore slow-to-improve stretch of Fulton Street, we're hoping this is going to be something nice that can counterbalance some of the less desirable activity that has been known to go on along this stretch. Who's got the 411?
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Posted by Brownstoner at 11:07 AM | Comments (24)
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That's right next to my old high school, Cathedral Prep. They made it condos after it closed in 1985. That used to be the residents' parking lot. Guess they'll have to park on the street now.

www.forgotten-ny.com

Posted by: Kevin Walsh at June 7, 2006 11:45 AM

is this between fulton and atlantic?

Posted by: anonie at June 7, 2006 12:36 PM

Yes, b/t fulton and atlantic. I hear it will be condos, but don't know the details.

Posted by: lp at June 7, 2006 12:41 PM

Well this is huge! do you remember a while ago somebody posted this:


541 Washington Avenue
8 stories 70 feet
The Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Dev-Washington LLC
Residential
66 units 119,634 Sq. Ft.
Under Construction 2006-
PropertyShark listing
Permit

if you check on propertyshark and under permits from DOB that's it!!!!!!!!!! I heard ultra modern condos?? can we contact them?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 1:22 PM

541 Washington Avenue
8 stories 70 feet
The Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Dev-Washington LLC
Residential
66 units 119,634 Sq. Ft.
Under Construction 2006-

No details on http://www.sbjgroup.com yet

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 1:23 PM

Their work is great! this looks very promising, I just email them with questions in regards, hopefully they will get back to me.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 1:39 PM

I walk right by there everyday and so I talked to one of the workers... Luxury condos... with a parking garage... so he says.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 1:52 PM

SBJ Group restored the nice old prewar apartment buildings on Gates between Washington and St. James many years ago.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 2:01 PM

Wasn't Steven Jacobs the developer behind the Greene House Condos on Greene Avenue?

Posted by: Shahn Andersen at June 7, 2006 3:04 PM

Check their website :

www.sbjgroup.com

really nice work, looks like we could get a decent building, finally.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 3:14 PM

don't think so shahn. No mention of them on the greenehousecondos.com site.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 3:48 PM

and no mention of Greenehouse on their site. Looks like their work is uninspired but passable modern.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 3:56 PM

That excavation work requires shoring up to protect backyards, yes or no?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 4:02 PM

Jacobs was very big in the neighborhood when I arrived in 1987. He had many buildings and many renovations like the one mentioned at Gates and Washington. He even started a high end gourmet and housewares store on S. Portland between Lafayette and Fulton. I think with his wife. The housing bust in the next few years after that closed down much of his projects. I guess he was a guy ahead of his time. And now he is back.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 4:32 PM

a couple of years ago when i was selling real estate i met a guy who parked his car in that lot. knowing that it was going to become a development i asked him for the name and address of the company leasing him the space. i drove all the way out to great neck l.i. and had a brief meeting with someone whose name i forget but they were at the time the developers. the website however has addresses in vermont and nyc.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2006 5:51 PM

I think Stephen Jacobs is the father of Jonathan Jacobs, who was one of the developers of Greene House. I think Stephen was also a limited partner on Greene House. I could be wrong, but I that's what I heard.

Posted by: Shahn Andersen at June 7, 2006 6:10 PM

Shahn Anderson.

You are wrong.

No relationship between the two.

Posted by: Anon at June 7, 2006 7:37 PM

when is fulton street on this stretch going to match the money that everyone is spending in the neighborhood. A bank please?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 8, 2006 11:40 PM

when is fulton street on this stretch going to match the money that everyone is spending in the neighborhood. A bank please?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 8, 2006 11:41 PM

i live next door, in the former school, and it is definately excavation for one or two levels of underground parking, and the building will be as tall as my building, so 4-5 stories (ours is only 4 stories but very tall ceilings). the building won't fill the whole lot though - the back portion of it will just be ground level parking for my building.

Posted by: dahlia at June 9, 2006 11:07 AM

I live next door to this property as well and was just informed that the owners of the lot sold the land and building plans to someone else (presumably with deeper pockets). I also hear the new building will NOT be in keeping with the beautiful brownstones on the block, but will be a glass loft-like monstrosity. Oh Lord, please save us from these clueless developers!

Posted by: JSB at July 3, 2006 9:30 PM

Spoke to a rep at Washington LLC in Garden City, NY who supposedly owns the lot. They say just got a new partner so construction has slowed but in the near future it will begin again. They assure me they still own it. Also, they say the design is not ultra modern, but not old fashioned either. The rep wasn't sure how many stories would be built, but probably not more than 4. Currently there is no web site available to view the plans and no brochure. At least this means there's hope that the new structure will not be a weird Frank Gehry design or something else our of character with the area. Let's hope for the best.

Posted by: JSB at July 6, 2006 1:31 PM

I live behind this and they just picked up on the construction this morning. Nothing like waking up to a back hoe in the morning! I wonder how long this will last and how little time I have to enjoy my view!

Posted by: Frank at December 8, 2006 11:02 AM

I live upstairs from Frank (unless there is another Frank living nearby).

I hope this will be a nice (short) building, and allow us to keep a little afternoon sunlight, but I'm more concerned with the Saturday, 7am construction.

The BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP and earth-shaking rumblings the excavators suck as an alarm clock.

I tried 311, the dept of bldgs (website and leaving voicemails). Where can I find their weekend permit? More importantly, since their weekend work is done before noon, how can I convince these people to start just a few hours later?

Posted by: Tom at February 22, 2007 2:53 PM

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