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Plans for what will replace the now-shuttered White Castle at 959 Atlantic Avenue in Clinton Hill were revealed in an application for a new-building permit filed last month. Borough Park-based developer Bere Weber is building an eight-story building with 98 apartments. There will be no retail on the ground floor or anywhere in the exclusively residential building, whose address will be 953 Atlantic Avenue.

Gerald Caliendo is the architect. It doesn’t sound as though the building will be streetscape friendly: Rather than shops, there will be parking spots for 98 cars and 49 bicycles on the ground level and in the cellar. Apartments will be located on floors two through eight, according to the Schedule A, and there will be a roof terrace. The building will stand 80 feet high and have 67,253 square feet of space altogether.

It sounds like a rental building, and not a particularly fancy one at that. The developer appears to have owned the property for decades.

New York YIMBY wrote about the plans when the permit was filed, but we missed it until we saw mention of the project in a Real Deal article today about the 10 largest projects filed in January.

Brownstoner was the first to report the White Castle here had shut up shop. It is the third White Castle in Brooklyn to close recently. By our count, there are five left.

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  1. Parking can be very difficult to convert into other uses, depending on how it’s built. That Brooklyn has minimum required parking laws but no laws to prevent dead buildings fronting sidewalks demonstrates how ass backwards we are. What’s worse here is that the developer plans to build DOUBLE the required parking for lower-end units. That really makes no sense.

  2. Very true. I know that the old Brother’s Moving and Storage on Atlantic and Washington is a beautiful building underneath. Even when Brother’s had the building painted yellow, it still wasn’t an eyesore like these newer storage buildings.

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    But as for this building: If I recall correctly, this building, while not exactly ugly, doesn’t have such a great facade underneath (although anything is better than what they put over it).

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