Development Watch: 216 Pacific Street
We can’t believe we haven’t written this one up yet…The former garage at 216 Pacific Street in Cobble Hill is being converted to a mixed-used building with commercial use on the lower two floors and residential use on the upper two floors. The residential portion will be divided up into just three units. Sounds pretty…
We can’t believe we haven’t written this one up yet…The former garage at 216 Pacific Street in Cobble Hill is being converted to a mixed-used building with commercial use on the lower two floors and residential use on the upper two floors. The residential portion will be divided up into just three units. Sounds pretty swanky! GMAP P*Shark DOB
p.s. 212 was indeed a firehouse in it’s former life.
As for being landmarked the street is not. And as bad as this is, the huge block long developments across the street are arguably worse.
Also the vacant lot is pretty much a disaster. Pre financial crash the owner was planning to build apartments. Post crash they dug a big hole in the ground and poured cement into it to qualify for a tax abatement. Now workers from 216 throw construction garbage over the fence… so the lot has a deep watery mosquito filled hole surrounded by garbage/insulation/ etc.
mexican, my condolences to you and your lovely fire house.
Too bad the historic district does not extend to both sides of Court Street.
There’s also a pretty substantial new development going up directly across the street from it as well.
I live down the street and have been observing the whole renovation process. It seems like a real slipshod job. This past weekend there was truck out front loading in what seemed to be white-veneered pressed board cabinetry. Plus, contrasted with the bigger construction job going on across the street, the guys working at this site are total slobs. I don’t have high expectations for the quality of this place, but I hope I’m proved wrong.
I live next door.
It’s actually was a beer distributorship rather than a parking garage in it’s former life.
The owner is going to turn the downstairs into a custom wallpaper showroom and live upstairs. Not sure if they will be doing any manufacturing/finishing on site, but it’s huge.
It’s been a gut reno. I’m sad about the windows.. The originals were large beautiful multipaned jobs that looked like they had been there since at least the late 30’s or early 40’s.
The workers say the plan is to paint the whole place black. Uggh.
Is that a landmark area? I’d be so mad if I owned that great former firehouse and someone did that to the building next door. What were they thinking with those flat shiny windows pasted on the exterior?
Define “swanky.”
I think you’re right, mcKenzie. I walked by it a few weeks ago.
I think that was a Fire House rather than a coach house.