Lefferts Place Threatened by Healthcare Developer
A company wanting to build an out-of-context low-income independent living facility for seniors on a lot at 86 Lefferts Place that runs through the block to Atlantic Avenue has residents up in arms. The company, CNR Healthcare, is trying to get the block rezoned from R6B to R7A to enable them to build the center…
A company wanting to build an out-of-context low-income independent living facility for seniors on a lot at 86 Lefferts Place that runs through the block to Atlantic Avenue has residents up in arms. The company, CNR Healthcare, is trying to get the block rezoned from R6B to R7A to enable them to build the center under Section 202 of HUD only a couple of years after the entire area was downzoned to prevent something like this happening. The juxtaposition would be particularly jarring given that the new six-story building would be plunked down between the landmarked yellow house at 70 Lefferts place and the old green house at 96 Lefferts Place. Ouch! According to residents who’ve tried to work towards some kind of compromise, the company has shown no interest in working with the community to create a more palatable alternative, opting instead to push for a rezoning. The whole thing sounds pretty darn shady to us and we hope that there will be some politicians who stand up and oppose it. In the meantime, you can express your opposition to this spot-rezoning proposal by signing this petition. GMAP P*Shark
“Methinks the developers are in the process of sneaky doings. As we in Crown Hts have learned, the best way to quell opposition by the community, is for the city, or a developer to use the absolutely necessary function of that building as a shield to obscure the shady doings used to get their way.”
Sounds a lot like what happened with Atlantic Yards, what with all the promises of low-income housing that will probably never get built.
bxgrl: Could it simply be that they’ve already bought this particular parcel of land? Selling it and starting from scratch by buying a new parcel on Atlantic or elsewhere may not seem feasible to them if they’ve already invested a lot of time and money in planning to build on this one.
“Two months ago we learned that Clermont Greene, the TK-unit through-block development at 174 Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene, had gotten its C of O; then last month came the news that the building was 25 percent sold. Now, as of July 16, we can report that the first closing has occurred. The apartment in question is a 1,210-square-footer that went for $772,000. Presumably there’s more to come in the near future.”
This is a new thread started by Brownstoner! On one hand he claims about “Preserving Neighborhoods” and on the other hand Jerking off to half sold condo projects.
Man you can’t make this stuff up..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
i take that back re 10-15 stories i was looking through my window at that giant glass apartment building between fulton and atlantic on vanderbuilt or whatever street that is when i typed that. got that thing is huge. They originally proposed a 6 story but now they are trying to get the zoning change and can build up to the maximum specs of size and shape for R7A.
This project is still going to be too big for this block.
Those of you that are really trying to throw the NIMBY attack at me should petition for CNR to change the zoning laws and build this next to them on their block. And every other developer once that zoning has been changed. I’m sure they would be happy for the support.
Why try to deter residents from attending meetings? The people on this block are charitable good people who do a lot for the community. There are a LOT of seniors living on this block. Why would CNR tell give us misleading information and lie about the process if they were concerned about long term senior citizen housing and our community? They are not.
“The whole thing sounds pretty darn shady to us and we hope that there will be some politicians who stand up and oppose it.”
How is it “Shady” Brownstoner? Is it “Shady” like the other Condos in Brooklyn?!
Man I can’t wait for the Fall! I can’t wait to see the look on your faces..
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DSomeday this war is gonna end..
“The possibility that an underlying cause of distress is that it also “just doesn’t look good” to have all those old people out there sunning themselves on a summer day–” We never see that in the facility by me. The front of the building is not designed for that, and they have balconies, and possibly a garden in the back. But I grew up in projects where all the older folk would sit out in the summer, and they do it on my street- I love it. Of course when you’re a kid and they report to your mother every time you used a bad word or misbehaved, it lost a bit of its charm :-).
brokestone- why would putting the facility on this street make the building more profitable? I think is more because Atlantic is so noisy and its not very residential in that section either. Don’t get me wrong- I think the healthcare provider is behaving like a shortsighted ass, but I can see why they want to put the facility on Lefferts and not on Atlantic.
we did not change the zoning, it was the city, and every politician in Brooklyn backed this zoning change. look it on line.
R6B was assigned to some 86 blocks.
we are not arguing against housing for old people bkre, they can put in a facility that matches the zoning. They don’t want to because the bigger the facility, the more money they get from HUD. That is not the argument at all. I’m still waiting for someone to tell me why they just can’t build something within zone?
you can only change the zoning for the entire block.
Methinks the developers are in the process of sneaky doings. As we in Crown Hts have learned, the best way to quell opposition by the community, is for the city, or a developer to use the absolutely necessary function of that building as a shield to obscure the shady doings used to get their way. Of course elder housing is needed. Of course the homeless need shelter, and recovering substance abusers need a place to live. And, in this case, it doesn’t seem as if the opposition is to having the housing, it’s to the size of it, and the way that size is being rammed down the community’s throat. By making it look as if the Lefferts Place people are a bunch of NIMBY’s, or are against senior housing, the developers are forcing them to spend valuable time and energy defending themselves and proving a negative, ie: “we’re not Nimby’s”, instead of “we are against the size of this project and the way it is being done”. That is so not right, and in the end, who suffers the most? Seniors who need housing, and a community that has worked hard to improve and grow. Both could easily live together in a project designed to work within the confines of the current zoning, and the historic nature of the block. Instead this will end up being a long, expensive and rancorous fight, for no good reason at all, except greed and maximum profit.
wait a sec….Brownstoner says proposing a 6 story and
brokestone says 10-15 story.