Development Watch: Ratner Begins Excavation at 80 Dekalb
After lying fallow for much of the past couple of months, activity has picked up again at the Ratner-controlled site at 80 Dekalb Avenue. Excavation work began this week on the 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed tower. Last we heard, this was slated to be a rental building. That still the plan? Demo Done at Site of…
After lying fallow for much of the past couple of months, activity has picked up again at the Ratner-controlled site at 80 Dekalb Avenue. Excavation work began this week on the 36-story, Costas Kondylis-designed tower. Last we heard, this was slated to be a rental building. That still the plan?
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I would bet on rentals. Who in their right mind would build condos right now.
Now that is a good question.
In the words of marvin gaye.
WHAT’S GOING ON?
Brooklyn will be the new Manhattan. How sad.
I totally agree with 1:55…although the end result simply won’t happen…I think I’m starting to resign myself to the fact that neighborhoods like this are entirely too close to Manhattan for there to ever really be a sufficiently high vacancy percentage to drop apartment sale prices.
The building definitely looks slick though
3:03 — wouldn’t this have been studied as part of the downtown EIS back a few years when it was rezoned? it’s now as of right, presumably.
1:55 = Ratner toady.
This will be worthless once the AY is built 🙂
Anyone know if a proper environmental study was done? Gee…if this were Europe, esp. Germany, this thing would have been studied up one side and down the other. A lot of people do not consider the wind issues that tall flat buildings create. The courtyard at LIU north of this proposed building may take a lickin’ and become an uncomfortable place to move through.
I wonder if the traffic on DeKalb right there is going to get more jammed up trying to get to Flatbush. It will certainly funnel more traffic through the neighborhood east of the building.
The comments on the previous dicussion about this building on Brownstoner brought up some interesting points.
Someday this war’s gonna end. That’d be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren’t looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I’d been back there, and I knew that it just didn’t exist anymore.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard – Apocalypse Now
The What
Oh DISGUSTING!!! This is atrocious!!!