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June 5, 2007
Have You Heard? Flatbush Extension Is Booming
There was another article summarizing the building boom in Downtown Brooklyn yesterday, this one from The Brooklyn Eagle. In addition to dropping the fact that 300 buildings had to be demolished to create Flatbush Extension when the Manhattan Bridge built, the article pulled together some good summary statistics for the building boom that is already underway along this corridor: 2,667 new residential units, 3 million square feet of new space, 2,500 feet of high rises. Most of the projects—like the Bridgeview and Oro, above—have been mentioned here and elsewhere on numerous occasions. One project that was news to us was a 417,000-square-foot complex consisting of 348 market-rate rentals on Tillary between Prince and Gold. Are they buying out the McDonald's or something?
Development Reaches Flatbush Ext In Spectacular Way [Brooklyn Eagle]
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What a horrible location.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 10:53 AM
Yah, even with all the improvements coming to downtown Brooklyn, you can't get away from the fact that Tillary bet. Prince & Gold is the nexus of crap - BQE entry and exit ramps, drug clinics, a commercial dead-zone, far from the subways... ick.
Posted by: EJ at June 5, 2007 11:08 AM
The McDonalds is between Duffield and Gold, not Prince and Gold.
Posted by: Anon at June 5, 2007 11:10 AM
Some recent nabe photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/iceberg18/page3/
Posted by: iceberg at June 5, 2007 11:33 AM
Though, if you lived there, you'd be home by now.
Posted by: andy at June 5, 2007 12:24 PM
this is a great neighborhood! so close to the city and up and coming very quickly. great investment if you're buying there now w/ all the building going on. Anyone have any more deets on the projects between ashland and flatbush on myrtle? thx
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 12:43 PM
All of this crap is making the suburbs look good to me all of a sudden.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 12:54 PM
"All of this crap is making the suburbs look good to me all of a sudden."
who's stopping you??
i say go for it. anyone who doesn't think the redevelopment of downtown brooklyn isn't a good thing doesn't deserve to live here anyway.
Posted by: anon at June 5, 2007 12:58 PM
Info on the project from bklyn paper:
Talk about the Manhattanization of Brooklyn: A new mega-development slated for the booming border of Fort Greene and Downtown is being built by the same real-estate giant that built a luxury Xanadu with a Whole Foods in the lobby on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
AvalonBay, a Virginia-based development group, will build a $250-million luxury “community” on the land bounded by Myrtle Avenue, Gold and Prince streets. The massive development will hold 600 market-rate rentals — more than three times the number of units in the iconic Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, the tallest building in Brooklyn.
“It will be similar to the Avalon on Chrystie Street,” said Joe Korbel, a spokesman for the developers. “I’m not sure there will be a Whole Foods, but there should be ground-floor retail. And there will be a lot of amenities.”
Korbel said that the building was still “in creative design,” so no renderings were available.
The $70-million land purchase was first reported in the New York Sun.
Posted by: MJ at June 5, 2007 1:52 PM
5 years from now, this whole area is going to be akin to a second downtown Manhattan.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 2:17 PM
agreed 2:17. except i bet we'll see a lot of the more creative industries over here in brooklyn and more of the financial sector stay in manhattan.
i think downtown and the surrounding areas (brownstoner brooklyn and dumbo) are going to be a huge appeal to even more people in the coming years. it's a fantastic place to live, in my opinion.
Posted by: anon at June 5, 2007 2:28 PM
Since when did high-rise buildings become associated with the suburbs? Talk about reverse logic. It reminds me of how some women insist that being a stay-at-home mom (often subsidized by a man) is a feminist act.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 2:34 PM
"Since when did high-rise buildings become associated with the suburbs?"
since bitter people who for years have said that nyc real estate would collapse while they waited on the sideline and were priced out.
Posted by: anon at June 5, 2007 2:46 PM
Hopefully, they won't have the same architect as the Avalon at Christie. That building has all the charm of an office building in Cleveland. You'd think a high end project would be motivation enough to use some creativity.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 3:28 PM
Maybe I'm just dim-witted, but everytime I see someone defend Development in these pages, I can only think that it is written by someone with some ulterior motive (like they're an architect, a developer, or they work for city planning.)
Development of the type we have seen brings anonymous, sterile streetscapes that don't add much to the city, other than some tax dollars and four boring walls for someone to sleep in.
Without rules that require a certain quality in new developments, we are just going to get what we are already seeing all over this increasingly generic borough.... crap!
CRAP!
Posted by: anon at June 5, 2007 5:40 PM
development in this part of the city brings WARM BODIES. it increases foot traffic, thus increasing commercial viabilty and increases the quality of life for everyone in the surrounding neighborhoods. the buildings may not be to your taste, but having more people move into a neighborhood is not just about 4 walls. its about investing in a neighborhood and creating a sense of community. that is something we should embrace for downtown brooklyn.
ever noticed that every city across the country is trying to get people back to living downtown??
everytime i see someone on here against development in a place like downtown brooklyn i have to assume they are either 80 years old or to use your phrase, dim-witted.
Posted by: anon at June 5, 2007 5:58 PM
MJ, that's a different site. The Avalon site is at Myrtle and Gold. Brownstoner was talking about the site at Tillary and Gold. It's close, but not the same project. Just goes to show you how much activity is going on in downtown Brooklyn.
Posted by: Dave at June 5, 2007 6:36 PM
I am fine with tax dollars and four boring walls to sleep in! There was not much to note Downtown Brooklyn prior to the recent interest. Hopefully life will improve for residents of the area who are not as affluent as some of the newcomers to the area.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2007 9:27 PM
The area looks like a good investment to me. You'll get great city views from those buildings too. Also, they are close to FG and BH. With all those new bodies coming into the area, I have no doubt that services and amenities will improve/increase for everyone in the area. Not sure those new amenities wil be affordable to all though . . .
Posted by: Guvna at June 6, 2007 3:58 PM
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