Gloomy Reception for 340 Court Plans
Last night the Clarett Group made a presentation at a community meeting about the firm’s plans for a development at 340 Court Street that will rise in place of the under-demolition International Longshoremen’s Association building between Union and Sackett. The Rogers Marvel-designed development Clarett currently foresees in Carroll Gardens will involve 14 townhouses on Sackett…
Last night the Clarett Group made a presentation at a community meeting about the firm’s plans for a development at 340 Court Street that will rise in place of the under-demolition International Longshoremen’s Association building between Union and Sackett. The Rogers Marvel-designed development Clarett currently foresees in Carroll Gardens will involve 14 townhouses on Sackett and Union streets, and a large multi-unit building fronting Court Street. Several blogs covered the meeting, and by all accounts the community members gathered last night seemed quite wary of Clarett’s plans. The audience booed the rendering of the Court Street building (above), according to Gowanus Lounge, and many vocally objected to its dark color and height. Counting mechanical equipment on the roof, the building could be around 85 feet tall. “We’re designing with the existing zoning,” GL quotes Clarett’s Daniel Hollander as saying. “Many developers felt a big tower would have been the way to go.” The unit mix will range from studios to four bedrooms, and there will be retail space on Court Street. According to Lost City, architect Rob Rogers said the building on Court will sport a “‘fabricated cement board’ meant to simulated stone”; LC writes that “since Rogers Marvel did seem to have made a thorough study on the neighborhood (based on their film presentation), it did seem an odd choice of color and material. I don’t know of any other buildings on Court Street of that color or gloomy appearance.” Pardon Me for Asking, meanwhile, writes that “The Clarett Group faced a very skeptical crowd at P.S.58 last night. This is a community that has been to one too many meetings about planned developments lately.”
340 Court Developer Presents Plans to Skeptical CG Crowd [Gowanus Lounge] GMAP
Meet Clarett’s New Carroll Gardens “Mausoleum” [Lost City]
CG Not Exactly Loving Clarett’s 340 Union Design [PMFA]
Photo of rendering from Gowanus Lounge .
To all you NIMBY’S- STOP, THINK! when was the last time you got laid? 3:26 is right on, if you guys had a life you wouln’t be so worried about this. If this was next door to my house I would shrug my shoulders and so be it. This is becaue I have a life. The reason you Nimby’s get press is because the majority of us who have lives can’t be bothered to come down to a community board meeting etc. to shut your lame asses up, but 60 seconds on a blog that I can do. Just read the blogs the tide is against you losers.
I read on another blog that someone in the audience at the meeting suggested no elevators in a seven-story building as a way to keep the height down. Well, what about the elderly and the disabled?!
If it is a new building in Brooklyn, shouldn’t it have to be ugly in order to blend in?
This is just a rendering and i don’t see what is so objectionable about it. I agree with limiting the height to reasonable levels but this isn’t that high! Court Street is a commercial strip with two – three story buildings with no remarkable charm or historical significance. This is very good for the merchants – more people and more retail, more traffic and the local economy. It rids the neighborhood of an awful eyesore which was dedicated to a mobster. Schools and infrastructure will follow as incentives to develop manifest. Nothing stays the same forever – get over it.
Let CG evolve as it deserves – pay attention to your own property. This is harassment.
Oh, come on! Some architects have shitty taste. Btw, there are also crappy doctors and lawyers, but aesthetics don’t usually come into it. Architects are licensed and trained so that their building don’t fall down; it is no assurance that they will design something attractive. And this just looks ugly in the rendering.
I realize that everyone has an aesthetic opinion about certain things, but architects are trained PROFESSIONALS who have graduate degrees, pass a board exam and are licenced by the state just like doctors and lawyers. Imagine what you would sound like telling a doctor or lawyer how to do their job…’Blowhard’ or ‘ass’ comes to mind.
3:08, you need to get out more, maybe even go on a date. somebody will probably go out with you if you pay for dinner and the movie.
go on!
More like Park slope Yickety yuck you should run from the element that lurks everyday around 3pm. You know what im sayin
carroll gardens – yickety yuck. who cares what is built there. horrible nabe. worse people. this nonsense that they are sputtering is the last nail in the coffin. run screaming from these people.
they just blow.