Development Watch: 467-487 Sterling Place
There’s a new construction project taking up 75 feet of frontage on the Northern side of Sterling Place between Washington and Classon Avenues. The developer paid $828,658 for the property in August of 2004 and then about a year ago tacked on a $13 million loan to finance the structure you see rising above. The…
There’s a new construction project taking up 75 feet of frontage on the Northern side of Sterling Place between Washington and Classon Avenues. The developer paid $828,658 for the property in August of 2004 and then about a year ago tacked on a $13 million loan to finance the structure you see rising above. The weird thing is that we can’t find any construction permits on the DOB website, just some demolition permits from last April. However, Property Shark shows that the sites are listed as having three five story buildings on them, which implies something was filed since there used to be just one-story structures. Any help? Check out a shot of the development when it was just getting going back in September on the jump.
Update: A reader points us to the website of the developer, The Bluestone Organization. Looks pretty upscale, ‘specially for this part of town. If this place can succeed along with Pacific Blue, it’ll really open up the whole area between Washington and Classon.
Prospect Heights Construction [Flickr] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Can anyone snap a pic of the site at 420 42nd st? I think it’s a parking lot just off 4th. The developer will probably advertise views of both the city and Sunset Park, as well as its proximity to the park.
Unfortunately for us, it’s going to look like crap on the outside! If it looked good, I wouldn’t care, since it’s close to transit. But I don’t want 125 feet of Fedders
that was me at 12:37pm, TYPEKEY!!!
To add insult to injury at our off topic 420 42nd St., Johny Chan is the developer, so it’ll be a real good lookin’ Fedders box-o-shit on a brownstone/limestone block.
OFF TOPIC: 420 42nd Street is being worked on…I’ll send info to Mr. B when we have it. It’s going to be a large one, since they are using the “community facility” bonus, their FAR jumps to 3.43, so she’s gonna be a biggun’ in an R6 zone.
10 stories, 31 units…just what Sunset Park needs on a low-rise block.
Oh, and I love this one…
http://tinyurl.com/2wyd8o
Permit from 12/2006 for a sidewalk shed for a “Alt 1 gut renovation”
WTF!
This is a new building site. is the plan examiner asleep at the wheel.
Nope, it’s a professionally certified project. Stinks like shit to me.
Thanks anon 12:01, missed that one.
Gee, considering every individual address has violations and 475 Sterling has 7 DOB violations and 3 ECB’s (including “mechanical demo work without a permit” and “failure to maintain site safety”) I’ll betcha we can add this site to the “scum bag” list we have been keeping…and it’s not even in my ‘nabe.
Go figure…
Permits exist
job# 301895714
475 Sterling
I’m looking out at construction in progress at 420 42nd Street. There is a permit at DOB for a 125 foot high apartment house with commercial facilities on the ground floor. The local Community Board which is located in a building adjacent to the construction says they know nothing. Perhaps this is a trend?
Really surprised about no permits as the project abuts a schoolyard and construction has been occurring with kids coming in and out of the playground next to the schoolyard on a daily basis.
I’d call this one in to 311 Mr. B.
You are correct, nothing but demo permits. Could be a glitch in BIS, could not.
The only “legal” explanation is they own a sliver of land on Washington or Classon that abuts the properties, and thus change the physical address when they submit for the “address” confirmation/change paperwork via the Boro Prez’s office.
So, to spin a theory, demo permits under one address, building permit under another. I’d suggest going and looking at the permits on yer way home.