Renderings out for Navy Green Townhouses
We could swear we’ve seen one of these renderings before, but we must be hallucinating, because a search has turned up nothing. New York YIMBY has published what appears to be the first renderings of the townhouses that are going up at 17-35 Clermont Avenue and 14-38 Vanderbilt Avenue in Wallabout. As we’ve reported before,…
We could swear we’ve seen one of these renderings before, but we must be hallucinating, because a search has turned up nothing. New York YIMBY has published what appears to be the first renderings of the townhouses that are going up at 17-35 Clermont Avenue and 14-38 Vanderbilt Avenue in Wallabout. As we’ve reported before, they are part of the three-part affordable housing development Navy Green, but the 23 townhouses will be market rate.
Each three-story, single family house will have 2,295 square feet of space, according to new building permits. There will also be a 32,000 square foot common space for all the Navy Green buildings, with gardens, lawn and a children’s playground. Curtis + Ginsburg Architects and FXFowle are the designers. The developers are Dunn Development Corp., L+M Development Partners Inc., and the Pratt Area Community Council.
The schedule calls for move-ins to start in July and finish up in September 2016, but as YIMBY points out, those dates will probably move back.
What do you think of the look?
Revealed: Navy Green Townhouses in Fort Greene [NYY]
Navy Green Coverage [Brownstoner]
Renderings from Dunn Development via NYY
What is it like in this neighborhood? I’m familiar with Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, but I haven’t really been to this area.
These look like the same amateur design style as the houses built by Gateway Mall. As horrible as theybloik I am sure they will fetch upwards of $1.8m
In addition to the other points, Atlantic Yards is on top of numerous subway lines. This project is a 15 minute walk to the G and a 21 minute walk to the C, so it’s not the best case for high density of market rate housing, frankly. There are better spots, from a transit perspective, to densify.
If I had to guess, I bet all the FAR has been sucked out to the corners, where the big apartment buildings are. These are market rate to help subsidize that?
But yeah, no reason the city couldn’t juke the zoning, helping to create more units for the BdB dream. Though come to think of it, you’d probably just wind up with five-story townhouses, since the city can regulate heights, but not unit mix, with rare exceptions (see: micro-units).