Under-Construction Boerum Hill House, With Beastie Boy on Design Team, Hits Market
A partially constructed townhouse at the corner of Pacific Street and Boerum Place in Boerum Hill has hit the market for $4,980,000, and the listing has some fresh renderings with interiors designed by one of the Beastie Boys. The four-bedroom, four-bath house at 242 Pacific Street will weigh in at 4,150 square feet, according to the…
A partially constructed townhouse at the corner of Pacific Street and Boerum Place in Boerum Hill has hit the market for $4,980,000, and the listing has some fresh renderings with interiors designed by one of the Beastie Boys. The four-bedroom, four-bath house at 242 Pacific Street will weigh in at 4,150 square feet, according to the Corcoran listing.
Brooklyn-based architects John and Jill Bouratoglou are designing and developing the house with Mike Diamond, a founding member of the Beastie Boys who designed his own Cobble Hill townhouse with the Bouratoglous. (He also designed his own wallpaper for it, Flavor Paper’s Brooklyn Toile.) The modern home will feature a double height living room, private garage, two outdoor terraces, a roof deck and a central vacuum cleaner system. Construction is expected to finish in December of this year.
Click through to see the interior renderings. What do you think of the design?
242 Pacific Street Listing [Corcoran]
Single Family Townhouse Planned for Corner of Boerum Place and Pacific Street [Brownstoner]
Renderings via Corcoran
I would think this location is better than state streets town houses, they didn’t seem to have any trouble selling. I know this block well, it’s very safe and most of the traffic is confined to atlantic. Yes, lots of work being done on pacific, but all for the better. Take a look at premium they achieved on 253 pacific, with a similar vibe.
It will work better as an architects office.
This is not a “home” location let alone a $5,000,000.00 home location. (corner)
Has anyone disclosed what the Real Estate taxes are going to be on this?
More people will be heading to the suburbs again….
Not too shabby. Wonder what affect it will have on the drug deals that have been conducted on that corner every night for the past 10+ years.
EJR
Sounds like you live in a vacuum. Tell me one neighborhood in the city (any borough) where a drug deal doesn’t transpire. And if they do there is no way you can acknowledge it unless you’re on a police stake-out or a buyer. I’m guessing you’re not the former.
We know the developer well and they started late April on construction of this place. As an attorney with a practice in down town Brooklyn, and having to walk by the site, they commenced the exterior shell in late June and as of Friday (where I took a peak inside) they were framing walls and running wiring and piping. So to respond to bored at work, the project has actually moved faster than my entire kitchen remodeling did. 8-9 months to build a 4150 sqft home is quite the achievement. As for the large lot, Pier One has moved on. And the construction is about to begin according to the neighboring building co-op board member. The past few weeks there has been a small crew working on the remaining environmental tasks. Also NYSC has been sold. That’s been news since the mid summer.
I know the auto repair owner, Nick, and he is personally building for himself. He hired his nephew who is a NYC Architect.
There has been an impending mixed-use building across the street, on Boerum Place between Pacific and Atlantic for I don’t know how many years. It’s supposed to be a Pier One plus apts, I think, but it has been a pit for as long as I can remember. It was an autobody shop/car wash about 8 years ago. I don’t know who would want to pay $5 million to live across from a Pier One, but I understand less and less about the neighborhood that I’ve called home since 1999. There has been construction of one kind or another on Pacific Street between Court and Smith Streets as long as I’ve lived here.
I had also heard that the small autobody place on the opposite corner of this new home has also sold to the same architect, who is also responsible for the monstrosity at 208 Pacific.