Self Storage Coming to Empire Boulevard
We’d passed this worksite on Empire Boulevard between Washington and Bedford a few times in the last few months and always assumed it was going to be housing. How wrong we were! Turns out a company called Safeguard Self Storage is building a 45,000-square-foot facility on the site (which sits on the Crown Heights-PLG border)….
We’d passed this worksite on Empire Boulevard between Washington and Bedford a few times in the last few months and always assumed it was going to be housing. How wrong we were! Turns out a company called Safeguard Self Storage is building a 45,000-square-foot facility on the site (which sits on the Crown Heights-PLG border). The three-story building, which is designed by NF Designs, won’t be ready until February. Word is that this won’t be the only storage place on Empire. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Storage is being pushed out of the more gentrfied areas, like up around Atlantic. They just tore a huge one down for Atlantic Yards, and another one by the BQE has got windows now and big sign advertizing “lofts”. But the richer people moving into Bklyn now also have more stuff, so the market for the “extra closet” provided by storage is growing. There is money to be made and they have to put them somewhere, so a more marginal but still not remote place like Empire Blvd. is perfect. Despite what the @#%$ above says the area around Empire Blvd. is not dangerous (the 70s and 80s are over, but somebody forgot to tell him), just not quite as gentrified, still populated by darker people, and the Blvd. itself is pretty ugly.
Nothing says ritzy neighborhood like a bigass self storage building!
i guess you could get 3-4x’s as many dead trolls in dare
is this where they will store the dead bodies of the pioneers who choose to call these warzones home?
oh boy i own a brownstone in shitsville im so cool
lock your doors suckers
is this where they will store the dead bodies of the pioneers who choose to call these warzones home?
oh boy i own a brownstone in shitsville im so cool
lock your doors suckers
These storage places are the knew liquor stores, except without the community destruction.
These storage places are the knew liquor stores, except without the community destruction.
Yeah–the former Empire Roller Rink is also supposedly going to be used for the same purpose–quite a waste IMO.