Third & Bond Blog
November 5, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 107
This week the folks from Hudson talk blowers.
Last Friday we had our first blower door test at Third + Bond. There was a small crowd of us at the event because it’s a pretty cool process and because even though the testing seems incredibly valuable, we’ve never done this before – not once in 3,500 units. How did the test go? Well, let’s just say that we thought about hiding the report card. Average or slightly above average does not cut it when you’re shooting for LEED-Gold and Energy Star. We really need straight A’s. Fortunately, this was just the PSAT. Now we know what we still need to study.
The purpose of the blower door test is to find out whether we sufficiently air sealed the building and diagnose the problem spots. Remember, the thesis of high performance buildings is that a tight building envelope with mechanical ventilation limits wasteful loss of energy. Unlike the convention of letting the tiny cracks and spaces in a building ventilate the space, today’s leading framework is to “seal it tight, ventilate right” or if you prefer “build it right, seal it tight.”
Aside from the energy savings that come with a tight building...
October 29, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 106
This week the Third & Bond bloggers describe why they have it made in the shade. Click on any of the photos to expand.
Doo-hickey. Thing-a-ma-jig. Brise soleil. Funny names we’ve used to describe the sun shading architectural element gracing the private roof terraces at Third + Bond. Brise soleil is the technical term, an adopted French term literally meaning “sun breaker.” A brise soleil is a type of structural sunshade, often with vertical or horizontal slats or holes that keep sunlight from fully striking a building.
The angle of the slats on the brise soleil is determined by the angle of the sun during the hottest time when the building needs to be shaded (and beauty). Some brise soleils have louvered slats that move either during the course of the day or seasonally (i.e., the sun’s angle is lower in winter).
Our brise soleil is composed of cedar for the slats and the aluminum panel of the façade. It has two functions: beauty and shading. We think...
October 22, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 105
It's all about the yard today on the Third & Bond blog.
You wouldn’t be able to tell from this image of the Third + Bond rear yard model but the plants have gone into winter mode. They don’t need watering or wheedling to stay beautiful until spring. This picture was taken just after rainfall; the concrete pads aren’t quite dry and there are still small puddles on the sustainably harvested ipe. This yard is the work of The Organic Gardener.
We most recently talked about TOG’s work in Week 102, the day the crew started laying out the yard. If we’re allowed to quote ourselves:
The hardscape materials are polished concrete, sustainable ipe hardwood, and pea gravel. The design reminds us of flowing water. The stream of plants is crossed by the bridges of hardscape. While striking, this design wouldn’t work for everyone. Some people have aesthetic differences and others practical differences. For example, there’s no room for a basketball hoop and it isn’t set up for major vegetable gardening. But that’s not really our concern. We wanted to [show] the potential of the yard to be an additional space for entertaining and relaxing.
Make sense now? On the far left of the photo...
October 15, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 105
The blogging crew from the Hudson Companies dishes on the party they held last week to show off the model apartment designs from Pratt students.
You might have caught our most recent press in Interior Design and Metropolis: They both wrote about our collaboration with Pratt Institute in our model apartments. These photos, taken by Pratt, illustrate the broad contribution of current students, alumni, and faculty. Here is the wallpaper designed by Pratt interior design students who were inspired by the legendary Gowanus oyster, as well as a lounge chair designed by long-time faculty member (and centenarian+) Eva Zeisel, a prototype lamp by Pratt alum Tim Richartz, and a table designed in collaboration by Pratt student, Cory Watson, and Carlos Salgado of Scrapile. And that’s just one corner of the room.
As described in Week 100, we hired Pratt Institute to outfit our two model apartments from wall covering to couches to soap dishes. Everything was in place in the 3+ bedroom/3 bath duplex with private rear yard and the 2 bedroom/2 bath floor-through, just moments before the press sneak preview last week.
Also invited to the press event were the designers who had contributed to the project. One of the best parts of the evening was to see a couple of young people crowded around an object with one of them proudly claiming ownership of a piece. We were impressed with the work put into every chair, lamp, and clock, especially the prototypes made by the designers’ own hands.
We spoke with Tawny Hixson who designed and built the graceful Ari Chair while studying abroad in Copenhagen. She’s concentrating on her thesis right now so hasn’t had time to think about getting the chair into production. We also spoke with Michael Chuapoco who isn’t selling his prototype but is willing to talk prices for custom pieces. His piece is the Adams Table, a dramatic squiggly-lined wood base with a glass top.
Also present...
October 8, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 104
This week the T&B crew talks mortgage financing.
With the finishing of our sales models, launch of our marketing campaign and start of open houses – first one is this Sunday, 2-4 – we’ve been spending a good amount of time looking at financing. Without good financing options, buyers can drool over a unit, dream about it at night, name their new puppies Third and Bond, but won’t be able to purchase a unit. (Unless they have a mattress of cash and can forgo a mortgage.) To this end, we’ve been talking with end loan providers and getting our ducks in a row with SONYMA, FHA, and Fannie Mae.
We have our project approval for FHA, which means that buyers looking at a mortgage maximum of $729,750 can put as little as 3.5% down. We expect over half of our units to qualify for FHA. For our 1-bedroom, 2 full bathroom (or 1 full bath and 1 fancy closet for you bathroom complainers) duplex with a private terrace, that means a down payment less than $25,000. Put that together with the federal tax credit of $8,000 for first time home buyers, and you’re really looking at $17,000 down. FHA also has a 5 year ARM for which they require 5% down but give an interest rate of 3.87%. So good we wish we could put numbers in CAPS.
We also have approval...
October 1, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 103
The clock is ticking this week as the Hudson Companies bloggers get ready for their first open house.
Less than a week until we invite members of the press to come in and see what we’ve been up to the last few months. Barely more than a week until our first open house. Will we be ready in time?
Back in April, we asked Kiska to have the model units ready by mid-August. There was a lot of push-back as the summer started and things were taking longer than expected. We agreed that Labor Day was a more realistic timeframe at that point and still kept us on a decent timetable. Then the day slipped to the 15th, the 25th, and now we fully expect to be running the last dust rag and straightening the last picture frame just before the first guest arrives.
There are consequences of doing work out of sequence...
September 24, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 102
Nothing like a little appreciation to boost productivity in the final push toward a tight deadline. Case in point: on left, decimated six foot sandwiches shown in the yard; center, The Organic Gardener and crew laying out the landscaping for the 3+ bedroom model’s private yard.
These seven men weren’t alone responsible for eating 30 linear feet of sandwiches. This week we held a topping off party for the entire construction crew. The topping off of the first few buildings took place back in Week 82 and we’ve long since finished the topmost floors for the entire project. Low and mid-rise projects don’t always get a topping off party. There just isn’t the same dramatic effect of a crane carrying a beam 10 stories into the air as a panelized system being set into place on a four story building. Still, the construction team was not only doing a great job on eight buildings, but also working full steam to get the model residences ready for showing in October. We thought some lunch and commemorative t-shirts were in order.
Also on view in this photograph are the private rear yards belonging to each of the garden duplexes. It’s afternoon and the sun has shifted to our northern neighbors, making it easier to photograph the cedar fencing lining each yard. One of the great aspects of cedar is that it doesn’t need to be treated. The warm hue will slowly weather into gray. The color should look great at any stage, but sadly the comforting scent will disappear.
The yards look a little bleak here but plantings should soon be rooting in before winter’s cold. In order to meet our LEED goals, we are foregoing grass in favor of pea gravel and native, drought-resistant landscaping. Our typical yards are a simple formula of 1/3 plants and 2/3 pea gravel. The model yard will be an example of an upgrade The Organic Gardener can deliver – an extended living space out of doors.
Here is a sketch of the proposed model yard...
September 17, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 101
This week the folks behind the Third & Bond development blog reveal their marketing strategy for the project.
Last week Petebklyn noticed that thirdandbond.com is fully on-line. With our model units opening in October, we’ve been rolling out our marketing campaign this month. Knowing well that real estate developers’ marketing campaigns are frequent fodder for sarcastic jokes, we will dare to talk a little about what’s going on behind the scenes on ours.
So we have a logo, a tagline, a color scheme, a website. Now what? Now we have to get it out into the world. The world beyond Brownstoner. First we take advantage of the project site itself. Pasqualina Azzarello, who also painted our construction fence mural and coordinated the mural project with the Brooklyn New School, was commissioned to do our branded signage on the sidewalk shed. We like the hand-painted look, and employing a local artist. Originally, we wanted the design to grow out from the center, where our tagline, “What Really Matters” marches across a bright yellow sun. Each week, Pasqualina would come back and paint more of the vine and the items that emerge from the vine. But the reality of moving scaffolding around between material deliveries and trucks made it hard to accomplish. And given that Third Street isn’t exactly a main thoroughfare, we didn’t know if people would notice the creeping changes the way they might in Union Square or Times Square. A good idea with no associated cost except for headache – put that one into our back-pocket for a more appropriate spot. The signage is intended to blend our marketing specifications and Pasqualina’s artistic style.
Next...
September 10, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 100
The Third & Bond bloggers from Hudson Companies celebrate their centennial post with some fun news about a collaboration with a crew of Pratt students.
Unbeknownst to you, dear reader, we’ve been working on an unique collaboration with the fantastically talented students, faculty and alumni of Pratt Institute. That hallowed institution of art and design, located in our own Brooklyn, has put together conceptually innovative and aesthetically stunning furnishings for our two model residences. Everything -- floor and wall coverings, home accessories, furniture, textiles, art, lighting elements, fashion designs, and more—has been designed by Pratt fine artists, designers, and architects.
We began working with Pratt a little less than a year ago. The original seedpod of the idea was that we wanted to dress the two model units in a style that spoke to a range of potential buyers and befit the classy modern design of Rogers Marvel. At first, shelter magazines like the dearly departed domino and ever popular dwell came to mind. From that line of thought sprouted a desire to collaborate locally and with one of the best design institutes in the country...
September 3, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 99
Welcome back to part two of Hardwood Floors 101. Last week we reviewed our exacting specification for the flooring material, down to how it is cut. This week’s post is about installation. Next week’s post will have nothing whatsoever to do with flooring—it’ll be the reveal of a really cool collaboration we have going. Trying. To. Hold. Back. From. Urge. To. Spill. Beans. Immediately. Aargh!
Okay, so you have a stack of wood flooring and a big concrete floor. Where do you start? What do you worry about?
August 27, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 98
This week the Hudson bloggers discuss various woods. Yup, woods ...
Last week’s good lookin’ fellas led by the lone lady are laying down hardwood flooring this week. Or, as someone pointed out in comments past, directing laborers to lay down hardwood flooring. Two of the three floors in the model residences have installed but as yet unfinished floors. Back in week 10, we blogged about our flooring search including engineered versus solid, floating versus nailed, and various woods. This week we want to catch you up on those decisions.
August 20, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 97
This week the Hudson bloggers introduce you to their contractors...Our hardworking team from Kiska paused in between the conclusion of our weekly meeting and the inspection of the hardwood flooring delivery, to take a group photo. As discussed in Week 20, Kiska is a multinational company; we are working with the local residential real estate subsidiary. You can see examples of their stellar work all over the city. From left to right in this photo: Erdan Arkan (President), Ulgur Aydin (Vice President), Ekrem Oz (a Kiska subcontractor: Ozela), Aysun Kahyaoglu (Project Manager – Model Units), Alper Kaya (Superintendent), Hakan Turkmenoglu (Project Manager), Yigit Unlu (Project Architect).
Don’t let their sweet smiles fool you – these guys are tough negotiators! If only we could somehow capture the energy exerted during one of our “discussions” about who pays for a change order, then we could probably get rid of the ConEd temporary connection and power the job through the steam that comes out of everybody’s ears.
Meetings tend to be lively, productive, and, dare we say it, fun...
August 13, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 96
It's a big day for the Hudson bloggers today...
Welcome to the Third + Bond teaser website. You’ve seen the logo, now see the renderings.The teaser website may well be our buyers’ first introduction to the project. We want to capture their attention by highlighting key attributes that we think rise to the top for design-and-comfort-conscious, value buyers: space + light, convenience + neighborhood, eco-living + inspired design.
Often, developers do teaser websites when they want to start collecting names but don’t yet have the condo plan approved and so are limited in the marketing they can do. We have our approved condo plan but still thought the teaser was a great way to launch. Already we are getting calls from potential buyers and this will help direct those calls to our sales team. We have a full website ready to go but prefer to launch that in September when the models are available for touring and NYC has returned from August vacations.
For those of you around town, like us, the teaser website: http://www.thirdandbond.com immediately awaits your curious eyes.
Inside Third & Bond: Weeks 1-95 [Brownstoner]
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August 6, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 95
This week, the Hudson bloggers go all acronym-y on us...Nids. Something your government-backed health care policy won’t cover or a point of connection for telecommunications wiring?
Nids or NIDs stands for Network Interface Devices. Broadly speaking, it is the point at which the carrier’s wiring meets the customer’s wiring. At Third + Bond, we have a NID in every building. We also have ONTs or Optical Network Terminals which are basically sub-NIDs for broadband. An ONT is pictured here. The ONT is located within the residence, hidden away in the front hall closet. It’s a thin steel panel that is installed between the studs so that it won’t protrude into the closet, using up valuable umbrella storage space.
The homeowner shouldn’t even notice the ONT is there unless they have a connection problem. The servicer, Verizon or Time Warner for example, might need access to this box to test whether the connection is good coming into the unit. If it is, then the connection problem is within the apartment. This is important because the servicer owns and is responsible for maintaining wiring up until the ONT. Thereafter wiring issues are the homeowner’s responsibility.
But let’s start from the beginning...
July 30, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 94
This week the Hudson bloggers circle back on the great logo debate...The Third + Bond logo, unveiled. No matter which old flames show up to cry about how they were afraid to say those three little words before, or to complain that this was not the #1 pick during the voting in Week 48, we will not budge. This is the one we love. Bachelorette Jillian got her pick and we got ours. Why did we pick this one over the wisdom of the crowd? What was the process in eliminating suitors? How is it that the café leche and orange logo was the “last man standing” but since the rose ceremony has transformed its colors?
Let’s take a look back…
July 23, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 93
Today the Hudson blog team tackles the topic of electricity...
On the F train today, headed back to the office from a visit to Third + Bond, we had a summer subway moment: the car was crowded with children in matching day camp t-shirts, sweat-stained adults, and empty water bottles rolling underfoot. Then came the announcements to re-route the train and we thought: yep, the summer heat’s getting to the subway’s electrical equipment just like it’s zapping the rest of us. Not much we can do without electricity in the City – we’re beholden to it. At Third + Bond the electricity connections were important enough to hire a subcontractor to make the connections now for a substantial cost rather than wait for ConEd to do it for free in six months.
Electricity to Third + Bond is fed through underground connections from a power line in Third Street. In most new buildings in New York, the connection is made underground. (We made above ground connections – wires drooping down from poles to houses – just last year for houses in Far Rockaway. Depends on the neighborhood.) The pictures illustrate a section of sidewalk saw-cut in preparation to remove the concrete to work on the underground connection and a section of sidewalk where the connection has been made and the hole refilled temporarily with sand.
Our electric story began in the demo phase...
July 16, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 92
Hudson Companies updates us today on the brickwork...
It’s fun to watch the masons at work on Third + Bond. They have a steady rhythm as they slop on mortar, snug in a brick and whisk away excess mortar in a seamless motion. Meanwhile, down below their scaffolds there are the sounds of workers banging buckets of mortar, setting down loads of brick, and knocking hard hats into the low bars of the scaffold. The foreman shouts directions up at the masons who obey without bothering to look down. From inside the building, on view by the masons through the window, there’s the electric whine of screws tightening into drywall.
Everything feels purposeful and steady. There’s a sense of satisfaction at lunch break. The weather is beautiful, as if a reward for rainy June. The building is taking shape and the end for some trades is already in sight. It’s almost as if we’ve established a momentum which allows the building to continue to grow at night while we aren’t around.
But that’s ridiculous...
July 2, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 90
This week, the Hudson team comes through on a promise...
Since we imagine you are busy packing your beach bags and counting your illegal firecrackers, we’re keeping this week’s posting short...Above is evidence of our recent Brownstoner tour winners at Third + Bond. From left to right: David Kramer (aka David from Third and Bond), cmu, Alison Novak (aka Alison), shchune, and huntgrunt. (Thomas and Benson are touring separately.) Our guests had diverse backgrounds: computers/green building consulting, residential brokerage, and journalism, which made their great questions all the more interesting. We look forward to having them back when the models are open so they can see the final product.
The tour consisted of walking the three-bedroom garden duplex and two-bedroom floor-through that are to be our model sales units come autumn, as well as a studio and one-bedroom penthouse duplex. We took a look at the bathroom that cmu had advised us (during design) to move from next to the kitchen to next to the first floor bedroom, and the washer/dryer that huntgrunt had suggested we move away from the master bedroom. We debated the south views versus the north views. We talked about dog policies and pricing the terraces. Walking around with floor plans and looking at bare studs can be a challenging exercise in abstract visualization, but everyone took an active interest. We had fun and hope the tourists did as well.
Coming soon: keep your eye on our sidewalk shed...
Inside Third & Bond: Weeks 1-89 [Brownstoner]
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June 25, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 89
This week the Hudson bloggers talk ceiling height...
Ceiling heights matter. Imagine St. Patrick’s Cathedral without its vaulted ceilings or the tunnels of Penn Station made un-cramped. If we believe Joan Meyers-Levy of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, high ceilings encourage abstract thinking while low ceilings encourage detail-oriented thinking. If we apply her logic, then Penn Station is not only horrible because of the suffocating sensation of the low, gray ceiling, but also because it encourages you to notice all the grimy details of the nation’s busiest train station. But low ceilings aren’t always bad: Meyers-Levy suggests that complicated tasks like surgery should take place in low-ceilinged rooms.
Ceiling heights at Third + Bond are 9’ in most areas, including the living and dining areas and bedrooms. In the kitchen, hall, and bathrooms, the heights are 8’. With any luck, these heights split the difference on abstract and detail thinking so that we can attract both the left and right brained buyers.
Our preference was to do 9’ heights throughout but...
June 18, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 88
This week, the Hudson bloggers get feedback on their "green" progress.
Last week, Bob and Rosie of Steven Winter Associates, came by Third + Bond for the second inspection on our journey to a high performance building. Steven Winter Associates is our green building consultant and assisting us with both USGBC’s LEED for Homes program and NYSERDA’s Multifamily Performance Program. By this time next year, we should be fully approved as LEED-Gold and Energy Star (rating for the entire building, not just appliances).
The first inspection took place several months ago and was to verify that we were installing the foundation insulation as planned. Bob also checked that we were using good construction practices in terms of waste management and the like.
The second inspection was to check progress and to note any potential issues. Bob and Rosie’s visit followed a construction site meeting, so a large group of Hudson and Kiska representatives were available to attend the walk through. While Bob and Rosie didn’t say anything we hadn’t heard before, we think it made a tremendous difference to have them point to areas that need extra care, as opposed to showing photos of an example building. When Bob pointed out the mastic on the HVAC ducts and complimented the subcontractor’s excellent application of the gooey substance to seal the joint between two metal tubes, it brought the abstract idea of air sealing into specificity.
Likewise, when he pointed out the floor to ceiling line where two wall panels come together and said the crack between them must be sealed off by spray foam, we could practically see Kiska’s project manager mentally calculating the amount of spray foam he needed to purchase.
The idea behind all this foam is part of the “seal it tight, build it right” school of thought on high performance buildings. We choose to heat and cool our buildings pretty much year round and that takes energy. There are repercussions of this energy use, from utility bills to air pollution. By minimizing the amount of energy that escapes through cracks and spaces in a building, we minimize the energy lost and thus energy needed to do the heating and cooling.
June 11, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 87
The Hudson Companies bloggers drop a pop quiz on you today.
Construction continues apace at Third + Bond. The rainy conditions have kept us from doing a concrete pour and starting some façade work, but inside plumbers and carpenters still vie for boom box dominance. But why take our word for it – come see for yourself!
We are offering 2 of our avid readers personal tours of the site. If you haven’t spent a ton of time on a construction site, it’s a pretty interesting way to pass a half hour. Plus, you might just walk away with some yet-to-be-released insider knowledge.
The first two readers to respond via email to info@hudsoninc.com with the most correct answers, will win a personal tour.
1. Who is our architect?
2. In Irene Berzak’s interview, she noted that the Department of Buildings has created a new term for expeditors. What is it?
3. What’s the name of the exterior insulation we’re using?
June 4, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 86
Summer is nearly here and it’s been great weather for throwing open windows to let in fresh spring breezes. It’s also been good weather for installing windows at Third + Bond. In Week 36 we talked about the then-new idea of using a heavy gauge vinyl window. We wanted to meet the Energy Star guidelines but the energy efficient aluminum windows were way over budget. Our vinyl windows from Paradigm ended up costing around $150,000 and we’ve been happy thus far. Installation is around 20% complete and on-going.
The windows are chocolate brown on the exterior and white on the interior. It cost a bit more to have the dual colors but we thought it important for the interior to not have chocolate brown and we could hardly do white on the exterior alongside the red brick and brown panel. In the former case, we’d be making a (bad) bold design decision on behalf of future residents. And in the latter case, we’d probably be sued by Architects Anonymous for putting something so ugly in the public realm.
The window shown above looks into what is currently the construction office, eventually it will be a second floor living room. (Yes, that big, ole fluorescent light is only temporary and not the final fixture.) The largest pane is operable while the others are fixed.
May 28, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 86
Last Friday, Kiska relocated the site office from an 8’ by 30’ trailer on Third Street to the spacious living room of a future two-bedroom condo. While the new “office” was still a jumble of cords, pieces of coffee makers, and piles of paperwork, it was already preferable to having six or seven people squeezed into a meeting space meant for two.
Having more room has made getting up to procure your own coffee feasible (not that anyone does) but more importantly, there is more room on the sidewalk and street for construction equipment. The development site is pretty tight since we’re building right up to the front lot line and cannot get into the rear yards unless we go through or over the project. Third Street is a wide street and we’re on a corner, both of which help us maneuver equipment and materials in and out of the site. We have Bond Street partially blocked as well as Third Street – and DOT permits do not come cheap.
Getting rid of the trailer also means saving money...
May 21, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 85
This week, Hudson talks pavement and mailboxes...
Last week, we received approval for the Third + Bond Builder’s Pavement Plan. Before any of you get ants in your pants: in order to get a new building permit, the BPP must be filed but does not need to be approved.
The BPP is a drawing showing the work to be done to the public realm in conjunction with construction activity on a private lot. The BPP shows sidewalks, curbs and roadway to be reconstructed as well as street trees to keep or be planted. Stormwater catch basins, bus stops, pedestrian ramps, and utility poles are also shown on the BPP.
Often, the BPP is designed by the civil engineer who also does the water and sewer site connection design. It’s logical that these two things go hand-in-hand, since the paving has a direct effect on stormwater run-off and thus the sewer system. Unfortunately, there isn’t a tremendous amount of innovation allowed in either right now. There are a few pilot projects in Queens where DOT is allowing a larger than normal tree pit in order to provide more permeable space to absorb water, but it isn’t a practice that seems easily approved outside of the pilot. So, our BPP is pretty conventional.
Once the BPP is approved, the approved plan is given to the contractor who will pull the permit for the actual work to be done. For example, the approved BPP might require that you will replace ½ of the street width plus 5 feet (common standard), but you can’t actually put a jackhammer to concrete until you have street opening (opening the road bed) and street closing (closing to traffic) permits from the Department of Transportation. Street trees require their own permit from Parks & Rec (Amy Poehler is such a doll!) and sign-off.
Once the work is complete, you call for a field inspection from DOB. You have to pass the field inspection to get your Temporary Certificate of Occupancy. When the paperwork for the BPP catches up, you call for an appointment with the in-office BPP reviewer. His sign-off is necessary in order to get a Permanent Certificate of Occupancy.
We spent as many as four years...
May 14, 2009
Inside Third & Bond: Week 84
In response to readers last week who were daunted by the idea of loping backward 82 weeks to find floor plans we’re showing off the garden duplex via a short (amateur) video of the space as it is this week. Click here for the youtube video:
Below are the floor plans for those of you who want a closer look. It’s helpful for us to refresh ourselves with the layouts, too. With all the issues that come up after the architectural plans are signed off we tend to forget how our end product will come together. We know the color of grout in the bathroom wall tiles but can’t remember if the toilet is next to the tub or the sink. It’s worth taking a moment to reconnect with the larger vision.
Inside Third & Bond: Weeks 1-83 [Brownstoner]
Our new legal fine print: The complete offering terms are in an Offering Plan available from Sponsor. File No. CD080490. Sponsor: Hudson Third LLC, 826 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.
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