State Street: We'll Be Watching Closely
State Street between Bond and Nevins has a couple of smallish development projects underway, we learned on our Sunday afternoon stroll this week. At 418 State, there’s a double lot with a townhouse-sized structure going up on one half of it. A little further east, at 480 State, the foundation and first floor are done….
State Street between Bond and Nevins has a couple of smallish development projects underway, we learned on our Sunday afternoon stroll this week. At 418 State, there’s a double lot with a townhouse-sized structure going up on one half of it. A little further east, at 480 State, the foundation and first floor are done. It’s going to be extremely interesting to see what the finished facades on these places look like. This is such a charming block, we really hope they don’t botch it! (If there’s anyone who lives nearby and can send us periodic photo updates, we’d be mighty appreciative.)
State street is going to be happening place to live. there were the really condo conversions at 464 state and also 466 is available thru Brenton. you have the townhouses going up. A&H has a house on state also.
Oops, the offending building’s at 480 State, not 488. My typing skills are as as abysmal as their community respect!
Huge bummer
The building at 418 State is on the site of the townhouse that was demolished following the tragic gas explosion explosion a few years ago that blew up the house next door. It’s going to be a one family townhouse. Mercifully, judging by the brick ties in the cmu back-up wall, it will have a brick facade rather than depressingly ubiquitous EIFS (less accurately but more commonly described as stucco). Unfortunately it looks like it won’t have a stoop and thgus the window openings do not line up with the house to the right. On the comnstruction fence there’s one of those “For Sale” signs you buy in a drugstore or whatever, with a phone number to call. I suppose the marketing will get more serious as construction develops. All in all, as a resident of the next block up, I’m pretty optimistic that the house will be an asset to the street.
The development at 488 State is entirely another matter. It looks like the building is going to be a mirror image of the apartment building monstrosity the same developer is just completing on the Atlantic Avenue side of this thru-block lot. This building is so cheaply constructed (EIFS all over except for the brick pier slivers at the extremities, ribbon windows, etc. etc.) that it should come as no surprise that it seems they’re saving design fees by turning the plans around for the State Street side building. It’s truly depressing that developers can get away with despoiling our neighborhood with such tasteless dreck.