Little Progress on Big Development Plans for Park Slope Parking Garage
Midwood Investment and Development Corp. is touting two huge retail spaces available for lease at 800 Union Street that could lure big-box retailers to the heart of Park Slope, but the Department of Buildings disapproved conversion plans for the building, a parking garage, in November 2013 and little progress appears to have been made on the…
Midwood Investment and Development Corp. is touting two huge retail spaces available for lease at 800 Union Street that could lure big-box retailers to the heart of Park Slope, but the Department of Buildings disapproved conversion plans for the building, a parking garage, in November 2013 and little progress appears to have been made on the project since. The ground floor space would have 7,248 square feet and the lower level would have 3,903 square feet, according to the developer’s online brochure.
Renderings for the altered structure, which we published last year, show an attractive loft-style cast iron and brick building with ground floor retail space and apartments and penthouses with big windows and balconies above. Click through to see more drawings of the proposed alteration.
The developer filed plans to convert the parking garage to a mixed-use building in October 2013 but the city disapproved the plans the following month. In July of this year, the developer filed to alter the front and back facades, but the job was “administratively closed due to inactivity” in September, according to the DOB file.
Our only question is: Where would people park?
800 Union Street Listing [Midwood Investment and Development Corp.] GMAP
Marketing, But No Work, for Slope Conversion 800 Union [Brownstoner]
Cate, the question, “Where would people park” is insipid. This building is in the heart of a transit-rich neighborhood, where most people walk or take the bus or subways. I have noticed that you constantly prioritize parking in your posts about development, as though the neighborhoods you wrote about were in suburban Texas and not Central Brooklyn. Parking promotes driving which promotes global warming, traffic deaths, pollution and a host of other ills. We need less parking in Brooklyn, not more. If you disagree, perhaps there is a real estate blog in San Antonio you could write for.