Long-in-the-Works DoBro Tower Gets Glassy, Will Bring Shops, 110 Homes to Booming Area

A Downtown Brooklyn development in the works for about a decade is no longer an empty lot. At one time slated to be a hotel, a 21-story mixed-use tower at 237 Duffield Street has topped out and windows are almost all in.

The project will bring another mixed-use building and skyscraper to a neighborhood that’s experiencing a development boom.

The tower has a red brick exterior that appears to be complete; the metal and glass exterior of the shops on the ground floor is still under wraps. Workers were installing windows on the top floor when Brownstoner passed by recently.

A rendering for the building shows a relatively plain red brick building crisscrossed by a grid of windows. The massing is stepped around the 13th floor, where a terrace is shown, as called for in the the documents.

The building will stand 210 feet tall and house 110 apartments over 84,508 square feet on the second to 21st floors. That averages out to 768 square feet per apartment, suggesting rentals. The ground floor and the cellar floor will be reserved for retail — nearly 5,000 square feet of it.

The developer on the project is Castle Rock Equity Group, who has developed more than a dozen projects across the borough. The building is being designed by Urban Tectonics, an architecture firm based in New Jersey.

The 7,500-square-foot site was originally supposed to become a hotel developed by V3 Hotels, which built the Hotel Indigo down the block at 229 Duffield. The property last sold in 2007 for $9.5 million, according to city records.

The property is one of several of note in the area. On the same block as 237 Duffield are Hotel Indigo, a Civil War era townhouse at 227 Duffield Street, and the lot where the long-planned Willoughby Square Park will be constructed.

All are around the corner from the massive new City Point development, which will bring shoppers, diners and new residents to an already rapidly growing area.

[Photos by Susan De Vries]

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