Another Church on Fulton (As If It Needs One)
Fulton Street already has its fair share of churches, though many of them are of the storefront variety. Now just feet from one of the highest traffic prostitution corners in Brownstone Brooklyn, the Universal Church is erecting this large new home. (Check out the excavation underway on the jump.) Frankly, we can’t see why the…
Fulton Street already has its fair share of churches, though many of them are of the storefront variety. Now just feet from one of the highest traffic prostitution corners in Brownstone Brooklyn, the Universal Church is erecting this large new home. (Check out the excavation underway on the jump.) Frankly, we can’t see why the area needs a new church when beautiful old churches like St. Bartholomew are having such a difficult time remaining solvent. GMAP
Interesting about the warehouse, though I don’t think it would work as nice condos that could be marketed well if it has a community center in the bottom. It’s still on the Clinton Hill side of the border too, why would a Bed Stuy Restoration Corp have control in the first place. I guess that doesn’t really matter.
If the bottom was to be a “community center” and the top was to be made into market rate condos, why not make the “community center” a “community ARTS center” where local artists can display works, children and adults could attend work shops etc. I would work well with the adjacent park and, in my opinion, be attractive to potential condo buyers. What do others think?
STop that UGLY church from been built, even god will be afraid of getting in there.
I’ve seen those flyers, great news!
The empty warehouse is being fought over as we speak. I think the city still owns it. From what I understand the Bed-Stuy Restoration Corp was given millions of dollars to convert it into a community center but somehow the money got “lost”. Now the project lacks the necessary resources to complete the renovation; which is very expensive. As a result, the property now stands vacant and awaits salvaging. One option that is currently on the table is to convert part of the building into condos to help pay for overall renovation costs as well as subsidize the community center on the ground floor. Tish James is following the situation very closely and will be able to shed additional and more accurate light on the subject matter.
Did you see the flyers on Fulton ??????
November 13 the department of design and construction will start infrastucture work from Clinton av to Bedford av, water main, new curbs, sidewalks roadway pavements, including pedestrian ramps,bus stops,traffic signal,street light faculities,street signs and planting of tree, apart from the caos of two years construction site, this is going to be agreat inprovment, hopefully the start of a new fulton!
Seriously, wish I had some serious money and could develop some of the Fulton Street properties in a productive and community friendly way (and had the time to do it!).
Agreed. There are place sprouting up here and there (Outpost Cafe, Brown Betty, Kush, Olivino, the place that used to be Cafe Shane), but more is need and there is a market for it. A good grocery, bakery, bookstore, independent clothing stores etc. would all do well I’d imagine. I personally think that the empty warehouse next to Crispus Atticus (sp?) park would be a nice condo conversion. Big windows, nice old buildings on either side of the block…
where are these prostitutes that many keep alluding to? I am in the market and would like to know where to shop. Can some informed individual please enlighten me?
Part of the reason might be due to all of the bad vibe in southeaster Clinton Hill (Grand-Classon corridor). It’s been crappy for decades (though vastly improved in recent years). Absentee landlords (typically very old ethnic men) run and operate these buildings at arm lengths and they simply see this area as blighted with very limited upside. On the slight chance that they visit the property site, they see the same old thing that they’ve been seeing for years, e.g., run down stores, dealers and hookers on the corners and filthy sidewalks. When someone approaches these landlords and offer them $500k for their lots (as was the case with the four church lots) or $1mm (like the FT site) they are simply too happy to unload these assets at what they believe to be sucker prices. It sickens me too because Fulton Street in Clinton Hill is surrounded by some of the most beautiful brownstone blocks in all of Brooklyn. There are still a slew of large available lots on the strip and I’m hopeful that they will fall into the “right” hands. If you sprinkle a few Greene House like towers along Fulton and bring in some new blood and services, the area will take off like a rocket. Losing two large 75k+ sq. ft. parcels in such a non-value added way only hurts the area and stifles its growth and development.