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]
i’m sorry to have be the one to report to victor that the phrases “scarano & associates” and “well thought out building” have never appeared in a sentence together, and this is unlikely to change. see williamsburg — pretty much all of it — for several fresh and sterling examples of shoddy, tasteless and just plain ugly scarano architecture.
see williamsburg also for proof that most of the residential multifamily buildings on the scarano website do in fact get built sooner or later. unfortunately.
I’ve lived around the corner from this site for the last year and I’m really hoping for a whole foods.
The big house that an earlier poster commented on is really a special building. The brick work on the house is extradordinary. Even on a block with plenty of brownstones, this one stands out. Check out its roof line. The iron work is amazing.
I’ve lived on this block for almost exactly one year and I’ve been watching the neighborhood for two years. There’s a lot of crap construction going up so I’m glad to see a well thoughout building taking up that large lot.
I also heard something about a whole foods, and I could be wrong but I think A&H is marketing these, what I do know is that I wouldn’t live there.
The Warren Street/Boerum (between Smith and Hoyt) on the Scarano site is in construction progress -pouring foundation.
Had another look at the Scarano site, the Boerum Place development was built in 2002, though the others look like they are slated to go up in 2006.
Are all of the projects for residential multifamily buildings on the Scaranno site definitely going to be built. There are so many of them. And by the way, Scaranno does call “Myrtle Place” Bed Stuy. Maybe the other link says Cl.Hill.
As far as the Scarano projects go, just in Clinton Hill/Fort Greene I could see project for Grand Ave, Dekalb Ave (though I think that one is in Bed Stuy), Hanson Place, Carlton Avenue, and Clinton Avenue. Not sure of the cross streets on any of these, would have to research further. Plus, in Boerum Hill I saw Bergen Street (could be P. Heights too, not sure, they called it clinton Hill, Pacific Street and Boerum Place to name few. Quite a bit in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens (with one exceptionally ugly one in Bond Street in Carroll Gardens). There was also one on Underhill in P. Heights, but I think that is the one that SetSpeed has been talking about, the “Washington Condos”.
This is all just from one architect. If these are all going ahead, then it is quite a bit of development – which I do not necessarily think is a bad thing, just hope it looks nice and is quality construction.
That’s what we heard, too. Can anyone confirm?
someone told me they were putting a wholefoods in this complex.
How about the HUGE house next door? What is the deal with that. I passed it a couple of times and it looks almost like a mansion