Upscale Green Townhouses Coming to Bed Stuy
Here’s a rendering for a trio of green, modular townhouses planned for a plot of land in Bed Stuy across the street from Restoration Plaza. Designed by Garrison Architects, the 2,900-square-foot houses have highly efficient heating, insulation and lighting systems. They also look pretty darn good, we think. According to the listing agent, one of…
Here’s a rendering for a trio of green, modular townhouses planned for a plot of land in Bed Stuy across the street from Restoration Plaza. Designed by Garrison Architects, the 2,900-square-foot houses have highly efficient heating, insulation and lighting systems. They also look pretty darn good, we think. According to the listing agent, one of the three houses is already spoken for, which is impressive since a $1,300,000 price tag isn’t easy to pull off in this part of town these days. Then again, nothing like this has been done in the area as far as we know. Think they’ll be a market for this approach?
22 New York Avenue – In Contract [Corcoran]
24 New York Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP
24A New York Avenue [Corcoran]
My impressions of bed Stuy is that it has its nice streets and its awful streets.
Racially, it is not really a diverse community. Over the course of the next ten or twenty years I could see it becoming more like Forth Greene/Clinton Hill, diverse but still with a strong African-American cultural presence. But the reality today is not that. It is still struggling with the ill-effects of the past. Retail and services are still terrible there.
Give it up people. No one is going to get Montrose to step off his usual strategy: to attempt to disqualify anyone who disagrees with him from having a valid opinion–whether by declaring that they must not know the neighborhood, implying that they’re racist or arguing that criticisms that are relevant in other neighborhoods are invalid here because [Bed Stuy / Crown Heights / etc.] welcomes the “investment.”
That last argument is the most insulting, because it basically asks people to patronize these neighborhoods and hold them to a lower standard.
1:39, can you now translate “insance fuel costs”?
What happens in 10 years when the “green” initiatives in this building are out of date and a whole new crop of inventions have revolutionized green buildings???
You’ll have an out of date “green” building in a so so neighborhood.
This is for people who buy a new car every 3 years, cause it sure isn’t going to ever sell for more than 1.3 million.
what a miserable idea. everyone wants to be part of “the movement”. good luck out there. it was not good 10 yrs ago and still isnt. for that price, why, why would you move out there?? you obviously have money so buy somewhere else. what is happening to brooklyn????
No, HDL said the rarity of such housing and increasing demand for green housing due to insance fuel costs is what will help them hold their value.
Kind of a standard rule. You know, supply and demand.
in terms of building green, there are probably some tax incentives available, but if the building is designed well, it can save a huge amount of money on heating and cooling costs, especially as prices increase. The designers probably have some paybacks calculated but if you save a few hundred bucks a month on AC in the summer, that’s definitely worth some increase in the cost, though maybe not $500,000.
1:24, I think he/she said one better love these babies before buying or else one is screwed when trying to re-sell.
wtf did 1:20 just say?