Development Watch: Urban Green
It’s amazing to us that people will commit to buying a condo sight unseen but the developers of the Urban Green Condos on North 6th Street in Williamsburg have been able to coax down payments out of a couple people already, despite the fact that the site is nothing but a hole in the ground….
It’s amazing to us that people will commit to buying a condo sight unseen but the developers of the Urban Green Condos on North 6th Street in Williamsburg have been able to coax down payments out of a couple people already, despite the fact that the site is nothing but a hole in the ground. (The sales office across the street just got a fresh coat of green paint last week, we noticed.) The plans for this 44-unit development include on-site parking, rooftop cabanas and an interior courtyard. Unlike some of its brethren on the waterfront, the development will be a more modest six stories, befitting its mid-block location. The price of entry? From what’s been released so far, the cheapest seat in the house is a 719-square-foot one-bedroom fro $540,000; a 1,268-square-foot three-bedroom is $920,000. No word on timing, but that partial stop-work order can’t be helping.
Available Listings [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Development Du Jour: Urban Green [Curbed]
Why are you guys getting so angry about the new developments and the changes happening in Williamsburg? BORN and RAISED in Williamsburg, WE felt the same way when YOU guys moved into our neighborhood with your skinny jeans, unwashed hair and “i’m so unique, walk to my own beat yet i look like evryone else” bullsh- exteriors. This is directed to the hipsters and yuppies and the young “i’m an artist” students thats mommy and daddy still pay their rent. As far as i’m concerned, the neighborhood lost its authenticity when these people moved in. It’s not your neighborhood to complain about in the first place!
I walk past the sales office every day and am contemplating going in — feigning interest, and then asking about the “green” elements, and screaming “Wait, the building isn’t a GREEN BUILDING? You liars!” and storming out.
It makes me so angry that this development can call itself “green” when there isn’t anything *green* about it.
I agree with Nick. If the developer had been smarter (and less cheap) they could have made a real *green* building that would actually do well in the neighborhood. It would be different and actually (maybe) welcomed.
I love web sites with tweedling little birdies. Tweet! I have to live here!
nick, i believe you are correct that a “a green building would do ridiculously well in the ‘hood.”
a little OT – the agent’s name is VIOLET. oh man, i love that name.
Let’s not forget, the apartment is NOT a Green building. They named it “Urban Green” after the “garden”.
Talk about ridiculous. I got excited about a true green building going up ijn the neighborhood. The sad thing is, if we got a not-cheap-developer, a green building would do ridiculously well in the ‘hood.
I dont understand why anyone in their right mind would buy a “Green” apt in one of the most polluted neighborhoods in the country.
I’m not sure which is funnier–the fact that a building supposedly designed around its garden has a webite with not a single rendering of said garden (unless I missed it?), or the fact that said website features the sounds of tweetie-birds happily chirping. Yeah, when I think Williamsburg, I think Walden, Thoreau, and wildlife. I will say, though, that the renderings of the baths and kitchens look pretty nice. But I’ll second the poster on Curbed who argued that 1200 feet is awfully teeny for a 3-BR in Bklyn. And the facade, while hard to see in the picture, looks unimpressive. Good luck with that, developer peeps.