Swimming Pool for New Townhouse Condos in FG
January 28, 2006 — Fort Greeners already have a fab tennis court. Now buyers at Cumberland Greene, a new four-story townhouse, will get a pool too. Opening near the park, at 237 Cumberland St., the brick building will offer four units, all three-bedrooms ranging from 1,800 square feet to 2,200 square feet for the duplex…
January 28, 2006 — Fort Greeners already have a fab tennis court. Now buyers at Cumberland Greene, a new four-story townhouse, will get a pool too. Opening near the park, at 237 Cumberland St., the brick building will offer four units, all three-bedrooms ranging from 1,800 square feet to 2,200 square feet for the duplex penthouse. In the back, there’ll be a landscaped garden and a waterfall, while a pool and fitness center will be available in the basement. Prices are expected to start at $1.5 million. If Fort Greeners are notoriously protective of their neighborhood, Suzanne Debrango, licensed sales agent at Brooklyn Properties, notes that the developers are two local artists who happen to live right next door to the building. Still, Cumberland Greene is likely to draw the moneyed crowd. The units will be marketed to Manhattan buyers, according to Debrango.
Comment: Could this be the same artist couple that built this Studio-cum-gallery building on Vanderbilt? Supposedly they own a brownstone in Fort Greene…
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I prefer the Faculty houses to One Main Dumbo, style-wise (not in some of the details- Dumbo obviously has better kitchens) but it has much more of a brownstone feel. In my opinion, One Main Dumbo with those big dark windows and boxy detail-less bedrooms, is ugly– so it’s all personal taste!
I think his comment was more that the three sites mentioned are all FSBO. Other than that I don’t get it at all because there are absolutely no similarities — they are all re-sales whereas the Faculty House is a new development of an existing structure with all the units new to market.
Unless we’re talking about web site design and not building design?
Huh. I really liked the faculty house and thought it was 10 times better than anything I have seen so far that’s why I bought there. Maybe you haven’t been inside. Inlaid floors, fireplaces.. I don’t know why the different appliance packages but, I loved it!
Do you work for brooklyn properties ltbukem? Waht does a smart buyer have anything to do with this.Smart buyers, I would assume would ultimately make job brokers jobs easier. I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest you have no idea what sophisticated products or materials are. I’m also going to suggest you have no idea who these buyersare, where they come from, what they need, what they expect and what they can afford. Stop pretending like you have a clue and get a new pretend hobby!
not the same couple brownstoner.
I just wish that the rest of us were going to have access to that swimming pool they’re building….
Ummm, what does Brooklyn Propertes now about marketing or consulting for that matter. Just look at the stuff they have on the market now. It’s not appealling and it’s not selling! You have to know the market and be knowledgable of trends to be considered a developers consultant. To call themselves marketers??? There banners are logos are laughable, and they steel marketing material (they basically ripped off the liberty brochure from A&H for their project on St.Marks) Why would they take a project that’s overpriced (the florentine) that Corcoran couldn’t sell? Because they need some crap to fill up there corny web-site.
The lovely garden a previous poster wrote of is long gone — the buiding is already half finished. The garden had been beautiful — old trees and lovely plantings. It was replaced at the rear by a weird Japanese-y waterfall/stone terrace kind of set up. The building itself is now under construction, though it’s hard to tell what it’s going to look like (seems like it might have balconies on the front, perhaps?). It is at least consistent in terms of height with the buildings next door, with windows of consistent size, etc. This block is very stylistically mixed architecturally, unlike South Oxford and South Portland, a block or two over — there are brick row houses and brownstones and a handful of frame buildings and a couple of large apartment houses, too. Some of it is gentrified but there are still a few houses that seem to be split into small apartments, covered with weird siding, etc. There’s also a condo development going on in what used to be a church and its adjacent house on the block. It’s a landmarked block but that hasn’t prevented at least one modern monstrosity, a two-storey, bright red brick so-called “carriage house” that went up about three years ago, a big part of the facade of which is taken up by a garage entrance. Don’t know how that one got approved.
I don’t think so — what about Corcoran or even A&H or the Developers Group? Who’s in DUMBO? And Brooklyn Properties still won’t co-broke — I know they don’t have to with new construction, but they won’t even do so with existing apartments.
This is a very small project, and to my mind, to go with Brooklyn Properties may not have been the best idea — marketing to Manhattan buyers? How are they going to do that — no-one in Manhattan has ever heard of them.
On the other hand, the place sounds pretty spectacular and, as noted above, there are people in Brooklyn with money, so these things may sell themselves.