Flatbush Avenue Will Never Be The Same Again
Tomorrow morning, Marty Markowitz will don his dungarees and grab a shovel to help developer Ron Hershko celebrate the groundbreaking of the two Ismael Leyva-desgned towers at 306 Gold Street and 167 Johnson Street. (Alright, he’ll probably have a suit on but whatever.) Gold Street will be a 40-story tower with 303 condo units while…
Tomorrow morning, Marty Markowitz will don his dungarees and grab a shovel to help developer Ron Hershko celebrate the groundbreaking of the two Ismael Leyva-desgned towers at 306 Gold Street and 167 Johnson Street. (Alright, he’ll probably have a suit on but whatever.) Gold Street will be a 40-story tower with 303 condo units while Johnson Street will top out at 35 stories and have 214 apartments. In addition to being the tallest tower in Brooklyn, the development will also be distinguished by its amenities, which include a squash court, a swimming pool and an indoor basketball court.
Downtown Glitz Jumps Flatbush [Brooklyn Papers] GMAP
Huge Towers for Flatbush [Brownstoner]
Nothing like making people who are different from you feel welcome in ‘your’ neighborhood babs. Why not say hello rather than stope dead and stare at them. Good job. Must have been “pretty funny” as you say.
PLG hipsters (Anon 1:43)? That is a first for me! Although I won’t deny there may well be some on the way — the other day two white guys dressed like grunge/hipster types passed me on Nostrand. They were calling each other, “Dude,” and went into the pizza parlor. Later they came into the plexiglass-encased liquor/lotto store. Everyone (myself and the store clerks included) stopped dead and stared at them.
It was pretty funny, but hardly enough of a population to fill up an entire building.
And I would love to develop Phat Albert’s Warehouse to include beautiful loft spaces in the existing building with condos built on top of it, if possible (while repsecting the integrity of the exsiting structure and making the clock work again). It would be a great location, and could certainly include moderate income housing.
I think the old Dime Savings bank should be made into a cell phone/sports jersey store with lots of large signage all over the outside letting me know how cool the merchandise is. 😉
Yep, Dime Savings Bank is now WaMu.
Everyone who enjoys good architecture should go in and really look around. It really is a temple to money. If you look in the center under the rotunda, there are dimes inscribed on the floor, and actually the dime theme is all over the bank. Thank goodness it’s landmarked or I’m sure the enterior would have been hacked up with really ugly plexiglass partitions even more than it is, and the ceiling would have been dropped and covered with acoustic tiles, or they would have built a second floor, and all of that wonderful marble would be long gone.
Yes, WAMU was Dime
Does anyone know what these buildings will look like? Will it look like the Hearst Tower in midtown (:>
Can you post some links to developers website. Would love to see what they will look like before I jump to any conclusions.
By the way, is the Dime Savings Bank the building that currently has a WAMU branch?
I just hope they don’t look like 85 Adams (Beacon Tower). Personally, I think that building is such an eyesore. I don’t understand why the entire western portion of the building doesn’t have any windows. I’m guessing that it’s not a lot line.
11:41 and 11:53 get it right, i think. You really have to be out of your mind to pay $800/foot at that location. If thats what the acquisition and development costs dictate, you may have one a sad developer (is that possible?).
This is an area ripe for development. But I will be surprised if they find buyers at that price point for a downtown location.
Also, the Dime Savings Bank building, now on the Fulton Mall, is a landmark. That likely will not come down. But THOR equities is proposing a huge tower on the forner Albee Square Mall and parking lot site next door.
Quality of life is one of those things that people bring up constantly when asked why they like living in Brooklyn.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that new development, residential or commercial, will continue the Victorian traditions of buildings 10 stories or less. Let’s face it, if elevators had been more advanced or invented sooner, the old buildings that we love would have been much taller. That does not mean that we have to accept any old tall building that someone chooses to throw up, especially in downtown Bklyn.
What happened to innovative and just good architecture? The city of the future that many are clamoring for would be a lot better if higher standards were held to in architecture. That has nothing to do with money, either, except that most of the developers seem to be hiring uninspired hacks, who must cost less. Good design does not automatically translate into more expensive design. Developers who actually gave a hoot about what they are building, beyond the bottom line, would be contributing to that new Brooklyn. The alternative seems to be bland glass and steel towers that could be anywhere, and are notable only for their ugliness. We are getting closer to a city that looks like Blade Runner every day, as it is. Can we somehow avoid that in Brooklyn?