New Condos: Suite Sixteen Hits Market
This former vacuum bag factory on 16th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues is being turned into a five-story, 32-unit condominium residence with the unfortunate moniker Suite Sixteen. The Karl Fischer-designed building was vested under the former R6 zoning, which explains its height of 55 feet; it also used the “alteration permit” backdoor. Aguayo &…
This former vacuum bag factory on 16th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues is being turned into a five-story, 32-unit condominium residence with the unfortunate moniker Suite Sixteen. The Karl Fischer-designed building was vested under the former R6 zoning, which explains its height of 55 feet; it also used the “alteration permit” backdoor. Aguayo & Huebener has the first listing up now, a 1,400-square-foot, two-bedroom condo on the fourth floor for $1,199,000. Parking and an on-site gym are also available. The listing description is rife with high-end catch phrases and brand names and is clearly targeting a buyer with money to spend. Do you think there’s going to be an appetite for this kind of listing this far south?
Suite Sixteen [Aguayo & Huebener]
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Glad to see Karl is having his draftsmen/CAD boys shill for him in the 11:01 pm and 8:19 am posts.
Please, it’s a “shit-teaux.”
“What are these “architects” doing, pulling rejected office space drawings and selling them as residential plans? Looks like an office park in Jersey!”
LOL!!!
Sure, it’s not as hideous as the “L.A. Special” directly across the street, but if your neighbor thinks the interiors are beautiful, he/she obviously has no eye for quality work. I went to the open house a few weeks ago, signed a liability waiver (which would have no standing in court) and saw beautiful materials that were shoddily installed, tiles that were not grouted, closet and cabinet doors that did not shut properly, and what’s with the giant gray door to the breaker box RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF LIVING ROOM WALL?!?! The substandard work done inside is no surprise to those of us who have had to walk past this eyesore for the past 2 years. Anyone who builds with so little regard for the laws and the safety of either their construction crew or their neighbors certainly wouldn’t take the time to finish the project in a responsible and diligent manner.
All I can say for anyone who is wowed by the superficial surface materials is: Buyer beware. If your cabinet doors start falling off a few months after moving in, don’t say you weren’t warned.
Love the South Slope, because it doesn’t, well didn’t, have crap like this.
What are these “architects” doing, pulling rejected office space drawings and selling them as residential plans? Looks like an office park in Jersey!
I agree it is defenitly one of the better looking condo buildings if not one of the best in the hood. I know Karl’s work and this is a welcome addition compared to the modernest slash and drab buildings he has put up in the burg. Haven’t seen the interiors but my neighbor went to the open house and said they were beautiful, apparently there a quite a few in contract as to his reporting and they were raising prices, go figure. Gonna go see for myself, I’ll fill ya’ll in.
It’s “chateaux” for the record. I live in the hood and love it but the idea of comparing anything around here to that is so absurd, it just makes them look like morons. Real estate language has gotten out of control — “Pefection in the Slope!”, “Your own Mansion in Ditmas!”, etc. Maybe it’s always been that way but when everything’s perfect, what’s not? Real estate version of the boy calling wolf. No one listens anymore.
I think this is one of the best looking condos in the Slope, I mean you people bash anything and don’t know squat about design or construction. It’s just hilarious to see the lame folks on these boards trash every project. Get over yourselves, go outside and walk around!!! And the name is pretty smart, but your all probably not!
I actually went to the open house to see the demo unit. One would think that a demo unit they are using to sell would have above par construction. Quite the contrary. The demo unit aside from sub-standard millwork (baseboard to floor moulding is out of level, bad miters), cracking grout in the bathrooms, missing caulk, bad taping on wallboard seams.. and on and on. It really is a shoddy job, which probably doesn’t come as a surprise to most people. Of course I am sure that they will get people to buy this, as this construction seems to be the standard now. Caveat emptor indeed.
1.2M and you have to pay extra for the parking spot?
I want to want to be reborn as a developer.
From an impact on the quality of life for the community this is a typical is POS,all the way around. Huge delays on work. Blocking off the street for hours (day after day). Coordinating deliveries, work, etc. with the Scarano gray tower across the street (buddy-buddy developers/contractors (how sweet), general BS and typical for the area.
Progress? At the expense of the community, as per usual.
And whats with the curved towers? “Chateau towers” (parapets?) to overlook the rest of the neighborhood? “Let down your golden hair, oh developer as we beseech thee for understanding…”