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January 31, 2008
Williamsburg’s Goody-Goody Greenbelt
The marketers behind a new Williamsburg condo called Greenbelt are really pushing the condo’s eco- and artist-friendly features. The Greenbelt team says the eight-unit building 361 Manhattan Avenue is expected to receive an LEED Gold rating and save around 46 percent of a standard building’s energy costs (its many green bells and whistles include a solar energy collector on the roof and a passive heat recovery system). The building is also going to have a 4,000-square-foot, nonprofit performing arts center on the ground floor. So it’s definitely got great credentials—but will it sell? The units are mostly two-bedrooms; the single, 710-square-foot top-floor one-bedroom is going for $599,000, while the two-bedrooms topping 1,000 square feet are going for between $759,000 and $815,000. The healthy sales at the green condo in the South Slope, 515 Fifth Avenue, certainly indicate that the market is receptive to eco-friendly builds—we’ll find out if that’s true in the Burg, too.
Greenbelt [Homepage] GMAP
Greenbelt Listings [Apts and Lofts]
Williamsburg's Greenbelt Getting Green [Curbed]
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a 600K 1 BR apartment is not "artist friendly".
I'm just sayin'...
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 10:32 AM
what a surprise - narrow living rooms that feel horrible and claustrophobic. God forbid we don't have huge bedrooms with ensuite baths and walk in closets - MUCH more important than decently sized common spaces.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 10:37 AM
location is decent (graham is finally getting decent food) but i'd be surprised if this does well. there are new condos not to far away that seem to be sitting/not being finished.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 10:56 AM
2 late 2 do well.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 10:59 AM
Could it be mere coincidence that there is an ad for 515 Fifth Avenue on this very page where it is mentioned?
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 11:01 AM
11:01
Its coincidence. Ads here are on many pages.
Seriously, I love a good conspiracy theory. This ain't one.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 11:05 AM
Could it be mere coincidence that there is an ads for 515 Fifth Avenue on this very website where it is favorably mentioned?
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 11:11 AM
I also hear great things about 475 Stearling Condo's ---->
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 11:28 AM
I agree: NOT artist friendly.
Artist friendly is enough square footage for dedicated studio space, good natural light, and low rent.
Posted by: Hal at January 31, 2008 11:31 AM
11:11
Again, don't fish.
If you look past your own tinfoil hat wearing index finger, you'll see that there are numerous properties and realty companies that advertise all over this site on each page. Look up at the Forte. Remember a couple days back when everyone was Forte bashing? Guess what, the Forte ad was right above it on bash day.
Seriously, I LOVE to find advertising bias. I revel in it. I am one of those snarky bastards who LOVE to stir shit up.
Its just not happening as you suggest it.
You need to get web savvy.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 12:00 PM
it's maybe too expensive for that part of williamsburg.
at the end of the day, don't know how many people care about the Green thing enough to spend more per square foot. guess we'll see.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 12:38 PM
12:00 is one of "them!" To the bunker!
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 1:17 PM
At least it's not yet another in a long line of black-and/or-grey-brick-with-giant-windows horrors that seem to be spreading like cancer all over BK.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 2:20 PM
The renderings are GORGEOUS. Count me in!
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 3:21 PM
Hey 10:56, what condos in the area are sitting around unfinished and/ or not doing well? You mean the ones that aren't finished because they're still being built? They even finished that doomed project Maze, that was sitting around for a couple of years after they nearly killed their neighbor with a constructions mishap. And that shiteous thing is selling!
I know this area very well, and I've seen just about every house and condo that's been up for sale here in the last couple of years. Not a broker, just a homeowner who wants a sense of the local market, and fascinated (occasionally mortified) by the incredibly rapid changes gripping the neighborhood. Most of all, I've been shocked at how they've been able to sell just about everything that's been built--including some of the ugliest, cheapest looking crap I've ever seen.
I have no crystal ball, so I don't know whether this one will sell or not. The ignorance in some of these comments, clear as day to me when they're about an area I know, is disheartening.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 5:16 PM
Seriously 5:16pm. I come to this blog pretty infrequently and I am almost always astonished at the bitchy-moany quality of 90% of the comments on here. Guess what folks, there's OTHER blogs if you really don't like these topics. Unless, that is, that you're JUST here to complain about real estate in NYC. In which case, either know what you're talking about or get a friggin life.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 10:46 PM
The green angle is a much bigger selling point than people making comments here seem to realize, especially given how few there are. Also, keep in mind that the enregy and maintenance costs will bee much, much lower, so that alone is worth some extra money upfront.
Glad to hear about this project, hope to see more like it.
Posted by: guest at February 1, 2008 10:01 AM
anyone go to the open house?
Posted by: guest at February 26, 2008 2:04 PM
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