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September 6, 2007
Development Watch: Ratner Begins Excavation at 80 Dekalb
After lying fallow for much of the past couple of months, activity has picked up again at the Ratner-controlled site at 80 Dekalb Avenue. Excavation work began this week on the 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed tower. Last we heard, this was slated to be a rental building. That still the plan?
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I would bet on rentals. Who in their right mind would build condos right now.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 1:03 PM
kinda exciting - all this activity in downtown BK - makes you feel good to call Brooklyn your home.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 1:42 PM
They are going to be mixed rentals
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 1:43 PM
Ratner is awesome! By creating more supply with this building and the great looking, Gehry-designed Atlantic yards, prices will have to come down. Isn't that how markets worth. Now I may be able to afford something.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 1:55 PM
Man, my bedroom window used to be 100 ft. from that construction pit, right on Rockwell. Thank god we moved.
I do have to say though, that just about anything is an improvement on what was there before.
Posted by: McFin at September 6, 2007 2:22 PM
Oh DISGUSTING!!! This is atrocious!!!
Posted by: Clinton Hillster at September 6, 2007 2:51 PM
Someday this war's gonna end. That'd be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I'd been back there, and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard - Apocalypse Now
The What
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Anyone know if a proper environmental study was done? Gee...if this were Europe, esp. Germany, this thing would have been studied up one side and down the other. A lot of people do not consider the wind issues that tall flat buildings create. The courtyard at LIU north of this proposed building may take a lickin' and become an uncomfortable place to move through.
I wonder if the traffic on DeKalb right there is going to get more jammed up trying to get to Flatbush. It will certainly funnel more traffic through the neighborhood east of the building.
The comments on the previous dicussion about this building on Brownstoner brought up some interesting points.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 3:03 PM
This will be worthless once the AY is built :)
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 3:34 PM
1:55 = Ratner toady.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 5:58 PM
3:03 -- wouldn't this have been studied as part of the downtown EIS back a few years when it was rezoned? it's now as of right, presumably.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 6:21 PM
I totally agree with 1:55...although the end result simply won't happen...I think I'm starting to resign myself to the fact that neighborhoods like this are entirely too close to Manhattan for there to ever really be a sufficiently high vacancy percentage to drop apartment sale prices.
The building definitely looks slick though
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 6:53 PM
Brooklyn will be the new Manhattan. How sad.
Posted by: guest at September 6, 2007 10:14 PM
I would bet on rentals. Who in their right mind would build condos right now.
Now that is a good question.
In the words of marvin gaye.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 9:10 AM
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