Atlantic Avenue Development Site Going, Going…
Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens reports that a sweet little chunk of real estate fronting Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street is set to be auctioned off on Valentine’s Day (the perfect gift for the developer in your life?). The auction consists of five contiguous parcels between Smith and Boerum Place; the largest of the parcels is…
Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens reports that a sweet little chunk of real estate fronting Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street is set to be auctioned off on Valentine’s Day (the perfect gift for the developer in your life?). The auction consists of five contiguous parcels between Smith and Boerum Place; the largest of the parcels is the parking lot fronting Atlantic, above, which is right next door to the 66-unit development planned for 252 Atlantic. The parcels fronting Pacific Street, meanwhile, are directly across the street from the 12-story tower slated for 262 Pacific. All together, the package consists of about 80,000 square feet of developable space, and the zoning allows for a residential-retail mix. Anyone care to guess how much this might fetch?
Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens [BSCG] GMAP
Valentine [Curbed]
anyone know what’s up with this? haven’t heard anything since the auction…
appears to still be on the mkt?
I lived on that block of Pacific for 13 years while the jail was in operation. The prisoners had a very clear view of our building’s roof deck area from the exercise yard on the jail roof. While not a really dangerous or anything, they shouted catcalls and rude stuff whenever we on the roof while the exercise area was in use. It was at times like living next to a construction site.
Amusing at first but then truly annoying were the guys being taken in to lock-up calling down to their girlfriend standing on Atlantic late at night to “Get the Bail! Get the bail now!” It was colorful, I guess, but ultimately the whole thing a PITA since it did affect our enjoyment of the outdoor space and sometimes our sleep. Before some of you start the lecture about buying that coop in the first place, I will say we were young and the coop was the ONLY thing we could afford. The jail was probably one of a few reasons why we could afford it. The eventual sale of that coop did give us the money for our house. But when we sold, the jail was one definite factor in our brokers pricing and prospective buyers did ask about it. To say its presence doesn’t matter at all would be incorrect.
photo is not ‘way off’ – it is just upside down from how you might expect to see it.
‘Criminals’ are released from the criminal court building (across State St) all the time – far more than will be released from jail.
Not a big deal.
The plans are to double the size of the jail.
Believe it.
Sites for jails are not easy to come by and the city is never giving this up. plus it is convenient to the courts. This has been a jail for a long time and it is going to remain a jail -a bigger jail- forever. Even in the Star Wars future when jails are obsolete, this will be a jail museum.
I lived less than 2 blocks away from the jail for years. The inmates were not the problem in the neighborhood- let’s not write panic scenarios based on ignorance. The biggest problem with the jail is sheer ugliness. That part of downtown Brooklyn is hardly the most scenic at any rate. But it’s a great area to live none theless.
Nice to see the current folks won’t have to try to burn the existing dumps down again.
that photo is way off. where is this parcel?
Is a criminal really going to walk across the street from jail and commit another crime?.. the Brooklyn House of D I believe is for people being detained until the get arraigned in the courthouse behind it, not for people serving real time, I may be mistaken. Living here for decades, I think a more realistic threat is the transients leaving the ER from LICH, than a crimey leaving the house of D.