Rentals of the Day: The Standish Hits the Market
It’s been common knowledge for several months now that The Standish Arms, the 78,000-square-foot building at 169 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn Heights that the Watchtower Group sold to Taurus Investment Holdings in April 2007 for $50 million, would be marketed post-renovation as a rental property. Now more news on that front: Halstead will be doing…
It’s been common knowledge for several months now that The Standish Arms, the 78,000-square-foot building at 169 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn Heights that the Watchtower Group sold to Taurus Investment Holdings in April 2007 for $50 million, would be marketed post-renovation as a rental property. Now more news on that front: Halstead will be doing the honors. The conversion reduced the number of units in the building from 128 to 94. Most of the units will range from 400-square-foot studios to 1,000-square-foot two-bedrooms with price ranges of $2,200 to $5,900. There will also be several “one of a kind” apartments that will be offered for $7,200 to $15,000.
The Standish [Halstead] GMAP
Standish Arms Ready to Rent [Brownstoner]
This is the company owning / managing the building into the ground. They know nothing of running a large building. http://www.tiholdings.com/169ColumbiaHeightsCD133.html
The Jehovah’s sold it to an amateur company running it into the ground. Tenants move in and out like a homeless shelter and have turned Columbia Heights sidewalk into there private parking lot. The doorman is beyond rule and a male pig. The handyman is dumb/ pathetic and as smart as the company managing the building.
This place has been on the market for over a year with another broker, lets see what a change of broker will do to actually get these rented.
who knows how the rental market will shake out, but there probably is still demand for a new apt in this neighborhood. rents are still extremely high. i am continually shocked at what my friends are paying who rent for worse.
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oh really? like where?
the @ schemerhorn? Some dump on the Gowanus canal? or a breeder’s cup stable in Park Slope?
People with money like quality, that is why they like neighborhoods like Brooklyn Heights. Stodgy, boring, and top dollar.
If those are the only options, yes I’d take the Heights also.
Luckily, there are quite a few other choices…
I would rather live in Brooklyn Heights with an ugly kitchen than with chic German appliances on some desolate ice sheet in Williamsburg or Greenpoint.
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one can only hope.
I read somewhere recently that Clak Kent was supposed to live in unit 5H of the Standish Arms Hotel. Do you think that that unit would see some sort of premium in the rent?