Bakery Planned for 250 Smith Street?
A permit was recently issued to convert the first floor of 250 Smith Street into a restaurant and bakery, with space for dining in the cellar. The building is part of a row of empty storefronts between Douglass and Degraw that Carroll Gardens Patch recently characterized as a “blighted block” because of the vacancies. (Amusingly,…
A permit was recently issued to convert the first floor of 250 Smith Street into a restaurant and bakery, with space for dining in the cellar. The building is part of a row of empty storefronts between Douglass and Degraw that Carroll Gardens Patch recently characterized as a “blighted block” because of the vacancies. (Amusingly, when we stopped by, all the storefronts were outfitted in Christmas decorations for a movie shoot.) Anyone got more info on what’s in the works? It would definitely be nice to see some new life on this strip. GMAP
keep going to Caputo’s then
any new bakery has to charge a lot to pay $250,000 back to get in space
I hope they sell bread at a reasonable price and don’t decide like many other locations from the area to add the cost of the high rent to their product! Therefor selling a plain loaf of bread as super italian bread for 5.00 dollars. We need inexpensive bread and not gourmet bread
CGar, not true what you said. Development sites are the cause of most of these vacancies.
Smith has very high occupancy rate. Banania is a mystery, as was former Viola site. Usually result of litigation, landlord weirdness or other sub-space anomalies. There are many resto operators in search of built space. If not leasing, not the market.
Yet restos fail at a very high rate, we’ll always have turnover.
hmmmm, turnovers…. bakery please…..
I can’t figure out why the opposite corner continues vacant and never any ‘for rent’ sign or whatever. The place where Banania and couple other restaurants were.
Otherwise places seem to rent pretty quickly — Stinky took over the Apple/grocery on Smith – and somebody is doing work where Starting Artists vacated.
The corner of Baltic sat vacant for quite a while too — but apparently they left vacant and have since torn down the whole bldg. Now it is another stalled project. That is 3 on Smith within a few blocks.
Never was like this in old days. All stores were always occupied and stayed long time. And closed at reasonable hour in evening.
“building is part of a row of empty storefronts between Douglass and Degraw”
I’ve always said that Smith Street was filled with rows of empty storefronts. You’re wrong, yet again, Pete. 😉
Probably the fastest way to get a permit to use the building for the shoot.
that row of so-called vacancies is just a stalled redevelopment project. One of several in the area.