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October 27, 2008
Brooklyn Cohousing Selects a Site
The 10 member households and 17 associate households of the Brooklyn Cohousing group have found a site for their social and housing experiment: Fort Greene's former St. Michael's church property. "When our project is complete, our community will share three buildings surrounding a 7,500-square-foot inner courtyard of gardens, green space and children's play areas," they wrote in an email to interested parties. "In addition, we will share extensive interior common space and share a process of decision making that empowers everyone in the community." This will be a more co-operative co-operative, based on the Danish model of co-housing where folks own individual property as well as some communal spaces. On the right: a potential model of their shared housing vision.
Brooklyn Co-Housing Moving Closer to Reality? [Brownstoner]
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Brooklyn Cohousing is having an Orientation TONIGHT for prospective members of our community. Come learn what we're really about and how cohousing offers a quality of life not otherwise available in Brooklyn (privacy in your own home plus community life available outside your door when you want it).
ORIENTATION TONIGHT:
6pm at the Belarusan Church, 401 Atlantic Avenue at Bond Street. Kids welcome. Orientations are educational sessions where you can get more information about us and our site, and have a chance to ask all your questions. Everyone welcome.
-KB, a member of Brooklyn Cohousing. www.brooklyncohousing.org
Posted by: kb at October 27, 2008 11:25 AM
Wow! How exciting! I have been thinking for quite some time that that set of lots and the church (the project that has stagnated) would make a wonderful cohousing spot!
Congrats!!! I would like to join but cannot come to tonight's meeting?
One question: how did the group nab this great location? I thought the owners had paid way too much money for the combined properties, that they had submitted a number of plans to Landmarks/Community Board and had one finally accepted. I don't walk down Carlton that much toward Willoughby but during the Carlton Stoop Sale day a number of weekends ago, notice the property was still languishing.
BG
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at October 27, 2008 1:04 PM
I hope you got a good deal on the land, because that project was dead in the water for a long time
Posted by: Dora Chica at October 27, 2008 1:13 PM
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