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November 19, 2007
175 Kent Avenue Revealed
We've got some more info about the development site on Kent Avenue between North 3rd and North 4th Streets in Williamsburg that we posted about last week. As you may recall, details about what the Chetrit Group has in store for the site have been thin. Now that this rendering has fallen into our hands, however, the picture's a little clearer. We're looking at a six-story residential building with 5,000 square feet of ground-level retail and another 18,000 square feet of lower level retail. As far as we can tell, this view is of the North 3rd Street facade, not Kent Avenue. You likey?
Development Watch: Kent and North 4th Street [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
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it's condolicious!
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 11:53 AM
It looks like the Alexanderplatz
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 11:56 AM
i didn't realize this blog covered 1980's Miami architecture
oh, wait...
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 11:56 AM
We are stuck in the 1980's because our precious NIMBYs would block anything and everything that is remotely different and innovative. So this kind of crap prevails.
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 12:04 PM
How are the NIMBYs responsible for unimaginative architecture? The only prevailing crap is in your post.
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 12:06 PM
Architect?
Posted by: WBer at November 19, 2007 12:19 PM
As anyone who knows me here, I'm most of times on the developers side, but this rendering is just horrible.
What the hell was the architect thinking here, don't tell me he wasn't thinking at all, cause you have to twist your mind loooong to come up with this.... disaster.
Posted by: mench at November 19, 2007 12:25 PM
wow on the amount of retail. does anybody know what's going in there?
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 12:33 PM
Duane Reade. Chase Bank. Starbucks.
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 1:07 PM
That's Crockett and Tubbs by the front door.
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 1:09 PM
BROWNSTONE - DON'T YOU MEAN 184 KENT, NOT 175?? THIS IS THE FORMER AUSTIN NICHOLES WAREHOUSE THAT WENT THROUGH TREMENDOUS TURMOIL 2 YEARS AGO...
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 2:16 PM
Still wondering who the architect. As for design, I agree with Mench. It is a fairly typical scheme on the upper floors (think every other Karl Fischer building, with the alternating glass and masonry pavilions to "break down" the scale). No matter what you do, this will be a pretty massive building. Still, if you want to maximize your zoning envelope, there are only so many things you can do to minimize bulkiness. The worst part is the base, which seems to have nothing to do with the building above.
And for 12:04, this "crap" is as of right. It prevails because developers want to maximize their zoning envelope and minimize their soft (design) costs by hiring cookie cutter architects who specialize in maximizing unit counts, and most importantly because the marketing types out there tell them to do it. As far as I know, none of that cast of characters falls into the NIMBY crowd.
Posted by: WBer at November 19, 2007 2:23 PM
Looks cheap. Fuck chetrit
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 3:38 PM
Fugly!!!
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 3:41 PM
looks just like all the stuff they are building on UNION AVE right now. i guess no one has a monopoly on bad taste.
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 4:01 PM
I hope that ugly fucking building burns down. Better yet, put a mini strarbucks in the lobby of the building then hopefully it burns. Burn baby burn! Ha! no more $5 corporate lattes!
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 4:55 PM
i am not hoping for a starbucks in any way. but, really it's simply not more expensive than local coffee shops. it's usually cheaper, and you get more coffee.
i think that of all the chains out there, starbucks is the least offensive.
anyway, i do think that this stretch at the waterfront would benefit from a drycleaners, a wine shop, a gourmet deli, a high end gym, a salon, another boutique - that kind of thing. Tops is on N. 6th at Wythe for groceries already, but maybe a high end grocery would go in there too.
If a drug store did go in, it will have to look good to be supported by the aesthetically driven williamsburg buyer. It's probably going to be needed tho as Kings (fabulous) will be a bit of a walk.
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 5:44 PM
looks like Meltzer/Mandl is the architect
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobDetailsServlet?requestid=4&allisn=0001399090&allboroughname=&allnumbhous=&allstrt=
Posted by: guest at November 19, 2007 11:25 PM
Condos? the burg? http://101wyckoff.com/
Posted by: guest at February 5, 2008 4:12 PM
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