Massive Bed Stuy Condo Development On Way
We drove past this large lot on Myrtle and Nostrand last week and were able to find a hole in the fence to sneak a picture. When we inquired at a store across the street, the extremely up-on-his-real-estate proprietor informed us that this was going to be a huge condo development. Lots of 1,000-square-foot two…
We drove past this large lot on Myrtle and Nostrand last week and were able to find a hole in the fence to sneak a picture. When we inquired at a store across the street, the extremely up-on-his-real-estate proprietor informed us that this was going to be a huge condo development. Lots of 1,000-square-foot two bedrooms for $450 a foot, he informed us. When we started asking around among brokers, we were quickly directed to the website below which was created by the previous owners who were looking to flip the site with approved plans. A tip that everybody’s favorite architect Scarano & Associates was behind the design led us to a treasure trove of info on what we’ve now learned is called Myrtle Place: 74,000 square feet of residential areas shared by 72 apartments, more than 14,000 square feet of commercial spaces, an underground parking garage for 42 cars and 2,500 square feet of medical offices. They have the brashness to claim that the site is located in Clinton Hill–probably the biggest reach we’ve heard yet. Large-scale luxury living in Bed Stuy is slated for November of 2006.
A rendering of the project on the jump…
Unique Development Opportunity [Bedfordcrown.com] GMAP
Myrtle Place [Scarano]
arch59@aol.com is Robert Scarano the architect.
It would be a nice thing if these were apartment building being built. There are people from the Neighborhood with mothers who will not leave… so a good place to live in this area would not be a bad thing. I believe the area is getting better and we need places like this for those of us who want better.
DOES SCARANNO KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING? ISN’T THIS THE GUY WHO DID THOSE MEZZ’S THAT WERE NOT LEGAL?
DOES SCARANNO KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING? ISN’T THIS THE GUY WHO DID THOSE MEZZ’S THAT WERE NOT LEGAL?
Did anyone mention that across the street from this huge effort in Bedstuy is the Macy Ave Projects???
Myrtle and Nostrand Ave.
Ever shopped at Whole Foods? While the quality is lovely, the prices make those nasty bodegas look cheap. what Brooklyn needs is a TRADER JOE’S!!
Oh and the HD opens on August 18 according to the sign on the parking lot.
When you compare anything by Scarano & Associates to the “developer-special” residential construction going up in the northern side of bed-stuy it does seem well thought out.
I’m not comparing it McKim, Mead and White, just to the nasty pink brick, cinder block houses that are going up all over the northern side of bedstuy.
Fine it probably won’t become a landmark in fifty years but at least its not a box built with the cheapest possible brick and the cheapest legally acceptable windows. New construction standards are so poor right now that it hurts.
Its awful what is being done to the area. This place, while not a modern brownstone palace has been thought out to be more then just a cheap and nasty way to flip some land before the bubble bursts. It will probably bring a supermarket (of some brand) into the neighborhood and a couple of hundred people to an area that needs more street life. Come on now, give them some credit. The owner (myrtle place llc) could have just bought the land and built 10 ugly 2 or 3 family houses and called it a profit. Even worse, they could have built Section-8 specials. But they didn’t. So come on now, give everyone involved here a break.
P.S. To whoever arch59@aol.com is, stop yelling at me. I don’t care for your opinion if you are going to yell in your email. All I said is I hope its a whole foods… if you don’t think it will happen– great. you’re probably right… but don’t yell at me just because I’m hoping for a nice supermarket around the corner from my own house.
Also.. there is a Home Depot opening very soon around the corner from this new development.