New Development: The Oddly-Named Lefferts South
The developer of this new condo building really scored when he bought the 2,700-square-foot house that used to be sit at the corner of Caton and Bedford Avenues. He paid $575,000 in January 2005 and then proceeded to replace it with an 18,000-square-foot structure, putting his purchase price at about $32 per buildable square foot….
The developer of this new condo building really scored when he bought the 2,700-square-foot house that used to be sit at the corner of Caton and Bedford Avenues. He paid $575,000 in January 2005 and then proceeded to replace it with an 18,000-square-foot structure, putting his purchase price at about $32 per buildable square foot. Sweet! The Developers Group has the first six of the 15 units up for sale, all two bedrooms between 830 and 979 square feet with outdoor space for between $439,000 and $525,000. The building strikes us as a pretty good effort by the developer to deliver a solid product in an unglamorous area. Will it win any design awards? Probably not, but it’s a relatively clean, simple structure without any silly affectations or architectural blunders. These days, outside of a few of the fanciest nabes, that’s about all you can hope for in Brooklyn. The finishes look more like something that would show up in one of the many new Williamsburg buildings that The Developers Groups markets and look surprisingly fresh in an area where you’re more likely to find developers opting for whatever’s on sale at Home Depot.
Lefferts South [The Developers Group] GMAP P*Shark DOB
New Condo Development for (Not Really) PLG [Brownstoner]
I’ve been very interested in this development and have been itching to get over and see the apartments for a while. I called the broker on their website, who never showed up, and left me stranded in one of the worst areas I’ve been in a while (I used to live on Eastern Parkway and never had a problem), but here I got harassed by three different groups of dudes, granted it was just after school let out. Also, the pouch on my bike was ravaged through in broad daylight when I went around the corner.
The subway is a serious walk away, the map on Google seems almost absurdly off-scale and I was on my bike. Granted, the layout, price and finished on these apartments are enough to give me the vapours, but you couldn’t pay me to live here. There is no food around, you have to walk by broken down cars to get to the supermarket (which was big and seemed nice) but there is nothing to do in this area except to try and make it to prospect park.
If you’re intrigued about this units but are at all squeamish about seedy areas, don’t even bother. I spoke to the receptionist at the dentist’s office at the bottom of the building for a while and he said that the area was pretty awful, that there was nowhere to eat and to just stay out.
Please rebuild this building in Gowanus. K thnx.
Caveat emptor…
…there is a reason these units have been on the market for close to a year. There is a reason the developer has had to change real estate brokers. There is a reason deals on units keep falling through…
buyer beware, word on the street is that they are building a 12 story building right next to it…
I also watched the building go up and was anticipating the end of it. I live down the street from the “Lefferts” building and I was disappointed with what was inside. First of all the price there are asking for these small condos are laughable. I went to the very first open house and the rooms were unfinished, you couldn’t picture yourself living there. Let’s not talk about the cheap use of materials that were made for this building. If I am going to spend half a million on a condo, I should at least have a living room and this building doesn’t have it. I don’t see how Brownstoner could approve if this building.
I’ve watched this building come together from my apartment window – I live on Linden across the street. Its ugly compared to the awesome brick buildings all around it. Its also clearly a gentrifying effort, which is insulting and unnecessary in such a strong working class community as we have here in Flatbush or PLG South, whatever you want to call it. The prices are stupid.
see-I was right how the adding ‘in Brooklyn’ gets read/inferred. See Curbed.com link to this item title ….’This Slab is all you can hope for in Brooklyn’.
Sorry to disappoint your conspiracy theory but we do need to sleep, you know.
Interested as to why my last comment wasn’t posted. Are you benefiting by not posting my comments brownstoner? I was reffering to the fact that the developers group are the worst brokers around. They are unethical and sleezy and I’m curious as to how they get the projects they market. BUYER BEWARE!!
makes me think of student housing at a decent medical school. hooray.