Commercial Real Estate

Park Slope
Finally! After a long battle with the surrounding neighborhood, Woodland (aka Prime Six) opened on Flatbush Avenue, reports Here’s Park Slope. Says HPS: “This is a new type of restaurant for the neighborhood: sprawling, multi-level, glamorous, pricey.” There are two floors which include a bar, a large backyard with an open grill, a lounge, and a private dining room. The menu is very meat heavy… you can see a copy over at HPS. The image above comes from the website as well. Also open in Park Slope: English-style Monro Pub now serving English brews at 5th Avenue between 11th and 12th Street, Banyo, a fancy shmancy Turkish bathrobes/textiles store at 421 7th Avenue, and Yogurberry on the corner of 5th and Prospect. The New Happy Taco joint on Park Place shuttered for good after a DOH shutdown.

Elsewhere
Italian restaurant Arthur on Smith starts serving lunch tomorrow in Carroll Gardens. And in Cobble Hill, the Ethiopian restaurant planned for the old Quercy space on Court Street opened up yesterday for dinner. A burger joint – Mark’s Gourmet Burgers – will open this summer on the corner of Waverly and Myrtle Avenue (the former Bechamel space) in Clinton Hill. Also on Myrtle, we noticed that Wicked Good Franks, which opened one year ago, closed up shop. Racked checks out the new Brooklyn Industries in Greenpoint on Manhattan Avenue. The store is made almost entirely of recycled materials – even the electricity is totally generated from wind power. And in Bed Stuy, Scratchbread Bakery now serves breakfast.

Williamsburg
An “artisanal snocone and sweets shop” going by the name of Handsome Dan’s Stand opened in the Williamsburg Mini Mall at 218 Bedford Avenue. Some flavor samples: thyme dream, rose pomegranate, and chili passion fruit. Grubstreet reports that Sweetleaf Coffee, a popular cafe in Long Island City, opened Monday at Kent Avenue and North 6th Street. The owners of the “Bukowski-homage whiskey den Post Office” will open a restaurant/bar at 141 Broadway in the South Burg. The menu will lean toward seafood. And finally the Brooklyn Paper sketches the scene at new bar Tender Trap, 245 South 1st Street between Roebling and Havemeyer streets. Over in Greenpoint, the Pie Corps will sell pie out of a store on Driggs Avenue at the beginning of June.

Elsewhere
Eater digs up all the details about the Littleneck expansion in Gowanus. The new place, which will have a more land-based menu that its clam shack counterpart, is called The Pines. It should open early July. Also in Gowanus, GYFA notes that the sports bar 383 Bar and Grill and record store Sector Records have closed. The Irish Pub moving into 139 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights will be called Custom House, says BHB. The tapas bar planned for awhile now by Vanderbilt Avenue’s Plan B, now named Cork will open next month in Prospect Heights.

Park Slope
Lots of shutters and openings this week in the Slope. First, a sad closing: the owners of Bob and Judy’s Coollectibles are moving to California and closing up shop in July, after 15 years in business. The knitting supply and gift shop Brooklyn Mercantile closed on 5th Avenue after a rent hike. Flatbush Avenue’s Carlton Park is now open, as well as Skylark Bar on 5th Avenue and 11th Street. Die Koelner Bierhalle, the beer hall at St Marks and 4th Avenue, is getting close.

Williamsburg + Greenpoint
My Moon, a once-Turkish restaurant at 184 North 10th Street, got a new chef who is experimenting with flavors from Barcelona, says the Brooklyn Paper. Grubstreet posts a slideshow of Beloved, a bar now open on Manhattan Avenue. Norman’s Sound & Vision is moving from St. Marks Place, in the East Village, to an undisclosed location of Williamsburg. And Gothamist tours Donna, a late night bar (with a food menu) open on Williamsburg’s southside, 27 Broadway.

Elsewhere
Dumbo NYC reviews Dumbo Kitchen and reports that the made-to-order sandwiches (named after building addresses in the neighborhood) are tasty. The Treats Truck opens this Saturday on Carroll Gardens with an opening day party on Saturday. A “halal Chinese and Afghani cuisine” restaurant is opening on Coney Island Avenue near Newkirk, writes Ditmas Park Corner. Bar and restaurant owners seek to open up a sports tavern on a previously troubled area of Rockwell Place in Downtown Brooklyn.

Park Slope
The expansion of Zito’s Sandwich Shop is confirmed for the Coney Island Boardwalk! Here’s Park Slope talked to the owner, who signed a three year lease to open a 140-square-foot sandwich stand right near Luna Park, from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Flea favorite People’s Pops opened its brick and mortar storefront at 808 Union Street with five types of ice pops and two shave ice flavors on hand. The Pink Berry construction site on 7th Avenue was slapped with a Stop Work Order. Happy Taco, at the intersection of Park, 7th, and Flatbush Avenue, was shuttered by the DOH. Grab Specialty foods opened with a new name (The Plougman) and new management. And Casa Ventura opened in a (possibly cursed) storefront on the corner of 7th Avenue and 3rd Street. Here’s Park Slope gave the place a thumbs up: “Judging by the food, decor, and service, all signs point to us having a real winner on our hands here.”

Elsewhere
Ditmas Park Corner notes that Lark Cafe will move into 1007 Church Avenue (next to the AM Thai Bistro) and serve Stumptown coffee, pastries, sandwiches, soups, and salads come June. Lost City reports good news that Leske’s Bakery, the last Scandinavian bake shop in Bay Ridge that closed last year, will reopen in the same location this month. Greenwood Heights residents worry about the massive beer garden under construction on 7th Avenue. The joint has not applied for a liquor licence from the Community Board yet. The cursed storefront corner of Dumbo which once housed Choice and The Gallery is now Dumbo Kitchen. It serves pizza and sandwiches. Carol’s Daughters, a successful bath and body shop from Fort Greene, closed its flagship location at 1 South Elliott Place. Says Patch: “The closure marked the departure of a key black-owned and operated business from the traditionally African-American brownstone-lined streets of Fort Greene.” And Eater wonders if popular Spanish chef Jose Andres is planning a restaurant somewhere in Brooklyn.

Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill
Patch writes that a tutoring service has taken half the space once occupied by Sweet Melissa, at 276 Court Street. Pardon Me For Asking talks to the new owner of Court Street Pet Food and reports that Community Board Six denied a sidewalk cafe for Buschenschank, the beer pub at 320 Court Street. Finally, Realty Collective writes that the closing date for Quercy, who has been at 242 Court Street for nine years, is on Saturday, April 28th. We previously reported that an Ethiopian joint is moving in. Finally, you know it’s spring when Gowanus Yact Club opens its doors and gets the ball rolling for outdoor drinking.

Park Slope
Park Slope favorite Zito’s Sandwich Shop is eyeing a space on the Coney Island Boardwalk, reports Amusing the Zillion. Here’s Park Slope tells readers that the Park Slope Academy of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu will open at 518 Fifth Avenue on Saturday with a “blowout celebration.” Z-7 Classic Diner opened on Flatbush, Triangle Sporting Goods is selling off what’s left before it closes, and L Train Vintage is coming to the old Blockbuster space on 5th Avenue.

Williamsburg/Bushwick
Racked writes that Burg Boutique Love Brigade is taking a sabbatical and “allowing the Universe to pull the brand to its destiny.” A new boutique called Eco Closet is moving in. Grub Street has details on Well and the Wick, a huge beer garden/concert space planned for an old Bushwick brewery. No word on when it’s actually opening!