Atlantic Yards No Selling Point for Nearby Sites?
A building smack at the crossroads of Park Slope and the planned Nets arena is on the market for $13 million. The property, on Flatbush between Fifth Avenue and Pacific Street, is across the street from the recently vanquished
A building smack at the crossroads of Park Slope and the planned Nets arena is on the market for $13 million. The property, on Flatbush between Fifth Avenue and Pacific Street, is across the street from the recently vanquished JRG Fashion Cafe and currently houses a furniture store as well as a few other retail spaces. Right now a developer can build up to 40,000 square feet on the footprint but, per the sales listing, there is excellent potential for partial block up-zoning to create a residential midrise or high-rise. Interestingly, the listing only includes a passing mention of the fact that the site is right across the street from the proposed Forest City Ratner Project spanning a large area around and over the Rail Yards. Perhaps brokers are shying away from using AY’s ginormous mish-mash of out-of-scale towers, constant construction and blaring traffic as selling points?
Flatbush Avenue Listing [Corcoran] GMAP
It is hilarious that the DDDB drones are still wasting time honing alternative plans. They have lost every court battle so far and and their number of supporters have dwindled. In a recent article, Daniel Goldstein refused to tell a reporter how much money was in the DDDB legal fund, likely because that amount is pitifully low. Give it up, guys. The battle is over and you have lost, all because of your incompetence.
Oh, I’m staying right here in Brooklyn. I’m thinking it’s going to be AY that gets shown the door:
“With lawsuits pending, opposition to the Atlantic Yards project reaching a crescendo, and the global sub-prime lending crisis threatening large-scale construction projects everywhere, Forest City Ratner’s plan is anything but a done deal. Come see how UNITY 2007 would transform the Yards without displacing residents or overwhelming surrounding neighborhoods.”
http://www.developdontdestroy.org/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=935
There are plenty of people who will welcome your spot in Brooklyn once you leave it because of AY.
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.
So, half the boneheads and half the frequency of said bonehead flocks? Yeah, sign me up for that.
And Fenway Park is bad example as well since it is approximatley 2x the size of the arena and Basketball has 1/2 the number of home games as Baseball.
Oh 9:14, such a clever riposte. Not a valid comparison, but cleverly worded. Have a cookie.
Sounds like the east village, williamsburg, meatpacking and the lower east side.
And people hate to live there.
I used to live near Fenway Park in Boston, and whenever a game let out, the neighborhood was a living hell of car traffic, crowded subways, and drunken boneheads. Sucked. Big time.
yes.