Development Watch: 525 Clinton Avenue
We’ve been watching the development of 525 Clinton Avenue, the 13-story project between Atlantic and Fulton, with interest since work started last Fall. With its glass exterior now almost 50 percent finished, we decided to dig a little deeper and get the skinny straight from the developer (who, it turns out, is the same group…
We’ve been watching the development of 525 Clinton Avenue, the 13-story project between Atlantic and Fulton, with interest since work started last Fall. With its glass exterior now almost 50 percent finished, we decided to dig a little deeper and get the skinny straight from the developer (who, it turns out, is the same group that built the Green House Condos). When it’s completed in the first quarter of next year, there will be 30 market-rate condos atop a community facility, which will most likely be medical offices. It’ll be a mix of 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom units, with the lion’s share being two bedrooms. The big selling point is likely to be the combination of light and views, given the building’s height and unusual shape, which will ensure that each apartment has a ton of windows. The developer is using an unusually thick (4 inches) and energy-efficient glass called Visionwall designed to minimize heating and cooling bills. The layouts and interior design are being done by Stephanie Goto who’s done a number of restaurants as well as the sleek-yet-understate interiors at 448 West 37th Street in Manhattan. That’s about all we got. We’re just hoping this will be the shot of adrenaline that Fulton Street needs.
525 Clinton Avenue Looking Good [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
525 Clinton Gets Its Glass On [Brownstoner]
Tower Rising at 525 Clinton Avenue [Brownstoner]
I really would like to know what site can I go on to find out all the info on this place b/c I would love to purchase one. Can someone help if they have any info??? Greatly appreciated. My email is akatude6@hotmail.com Thank alot
I’ve lived down the block from this address for 6 years now. Before it was torn down it was a large building owned by the church across the street. It housed disabled people. I recall walking my dog one day and a man who lived there asked if my large white dog was a goat. It was a shame that one day the tenants were suddenly gone and there were black bags full of personal items, hundreds of them, torn open on the street for months after that. I googled the address soon after that and found it for sale… a mere 12 million if my memory serves me correct. It was vacant for a couple of months before the whole structure was brought down in a day. The lot sat untouched for a year. There were never any brownstones there.
1:23 – you spoke with the developer.
WOuld you like to expose how was the meeting?
Did you meet him during a regular home conversation, are you his wife, his employee, or perhaps you are the developer or his partner.
Next time when you pretend to be someone try to be a bit more sophiscated.
Stop sending us messages anonymously – if you have the balls expose yourself.
high rises are not good for children and other living things :0)
But seriously, high rises may be good in some situations — like midtown Manhattan, but leave our low-rise historic neighborhood out of it.
Why be so obtuse? It is out-of-context, out-of-scale development people are reacting to not simply high rise buildings.
This is one of the greatest project I have seen building in 10 years of living in new york, nice!
“To 7:13 – Please note that the NYCHA stopped building high rises after deciding they were not good for the people who lived in them. In Chicago, large public housing developments have been torn down. They were built in the 60’s and are totally outdated. As for these hideous out of scale buildings they will warehouse yuppies and this is not an improvement to the neighborhood.”
So let me get this. You can’t build high rises for the poor because it traps them in a vicious cycle of poverty, hopelessness and despair, and you can’t build high rises for yuppies (though there’s certainly a demand) because yuppies will adversely impact the community? I guess when yuppies move into a neighborhood most socio-economic indicators such as safety, crime, education and employment worsen. Right?
So you can’t build high rises for the poor, middle-class or the rich. I guess we shouldn’t be building them at all.
Makes perfect sense to me….and all this time I was under the impression that there is a housing shortage in the city. LOL!
Just checked the DOB’s website. The architect isn’t Meltzer/Mandl from GreeneHouse, but rather some guy Fouladia. Anyone ever hear of him??
I actually spoke to the developers, and they explained that the reason for the delay was that the glass delivery was delayed several months, but it seems as if is finally comming on a normal schedule. The high efficiency glass as told by the developer is a very revolutionary product that is supposed to be a really awesome product, and therefore worth the wait.
I personally think that this will be the nicest building in Brooklyn to date, and based on the Myer building on Prospect Park (which in my opinion is nothing special-a big glass box), I think this building will command some really top prices.
To 7:13 – Please note that the NYCHA stopped building high rises after deciding they were not good for the people who lived in them. In Chicago, large public housing developments have been torn down. They were built in the 60’s and are totally outdated. As for these hideous out of scale buildings they will warehouse yuppies and this is not an improvement to the neigborhood.