Tower To Go Up Next Door to BAM?
According to Brooklyn Papers, The Clarett Group, which has developed four luxury residential towers in Manhattan, has gobbled up three lots next door to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Located at the corner of Fulton and Ashland Place, the properties fall under C6-4 zoning, which would enable the developer to build a 20-story hotel or…
According to Brooklyn Papers, The Clarett Group, which has developed four luxury residential towers in Manhattan, has gobbled up three lots next door to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Located at the corner of Fulton and Ashland Place, the properties fall under C6-4 zoning, which would enable the developer to build a 20-story hotel or office tower as of right and possibly as many as 30 stories of residential. No permits have been filed, but neighbors believe the existing buildings will be demolished.
Hotel Harvey [Brooklyn Papers] GMAP
To anon. Ok, maybe your not bitter about the market because you’ve done well with your recent purchases. Maybe you’re just racist and don’t like white people or “buppies”, I don’t know, but why do you have such hositility to the newer buyers in the neighborhood – especially if you are doing well with “your recent purchases”? Why the anger over the idea of the projects being moved?
anon, you seem to be the one generalizing by implying that all relatively new owners in FG are trust fund babies. What good would it do to make them live in the projects? Everyone knows the projects are horrible ghettos? I don’t understand your point? Do you think the people in the projects have some right to special treatment to have their public housing remain in the area of their choosing? Everyone else who rents has to deal with market forces and move to an affordable neighborhood. Why should it be any different for those in projects?
Thanks! I will look for that pdf link also, and pls post if you find…
to anonymous 10:22am
you prove my point with that ridiulous 99.9% stat out of nowhere. actually, ive done well in my recent purchases so ill disregard the other ignorant comment you made. just a little sad to hear people pull stats like that out of there hole and talk about projects and socioeconomis like they are trying to get an A in soc. ec.
ok. there were rumors that metrotech bought the projects and were going to build condos. also at that time people who lived in the projects were saying they received notices that they had to move within the next 3 years. next came rumors that donald trump was involved as well. then a realtor in the ft greene area told us that the projects were all going to be torn down and new condos built and that it was going to be kind of like styvesant town (of course a realtor would say that, it was fillmore btw). at this point i was starting to believe it, especially when people were getting moving notice, but i wanted final word so i scoured the internet. what i found was that the only truth was that people in the housing proj’s got notices to move. i found a newsletter in PDF format that concerned all things brooklyn put together by the city and it said they were updating the ft greene projects and moving people either impermanently or into section 8 housing – their choice. apparently those projects were getting very run down and the city felt need to do something. i can’t find the PDF documents anymore and i don’t have the time to surf for them again. i also must admit that to me at the time this temporary relocation seemed like some kind of beginning to get rid of the projects by the city, just because it all seems like such a strange plan. good luck though because it is very hard to get rid of projects. this is all i know and if i find the link to the PDF’s i’ll post it.
On their website, re: the Brooklyn land on Ashland, clarett writes,
Luxury Condominium Homes
Clarett is currently developing a luxury condominium to be located in one of Brooklyn’s hottest, trend-setting residential neighborhoods. Design is underway by Fox & Fowle Architects with construction estimated to begin in late 2005.
well its true. a big problem with the housing projects is that they tend to breed complacency. Sad, but true.
“There’s nothing unjust about poor people living in poor neighborhoods. If they work hard and make more money, if they so choose, they can move to better neighborhoods.”
WOW…just…WOW…I’m not sure whether to laugh or throw up at the “if they so choose” comment.
If you check out nyc.gov, those projects are
part of a redevelopment study, one of several for downtown Brooklyn. Late councilman James Davis was involved in something related to this. ot sure where any of this stands now.