Caton Avenue Condo Coming to Market
Construction on Caton Court, a medium-sized condo near the Parade Grounds, is looking more or less complete nowadays. The banner hanging from the building announces that it’s going to have one- and two-bedroom units (far as we know, they haven’t hit the market yet), and we’re wondering what kind of prices the developers could be…
Construction on Caton Court, a medium-sized condo near the Parade Grounds, is looking more or less complete nowadays. The banner hanging from the building announces that it’s going to have one- and two-bedroom units (far as we know, they haven’t hit the market yet), and we’re wondering what kind of prices the developers could be hoping for. Condos at Lefferts South, about five blocks east, are selling for around $500 a foot, and it seems to us like Caton Court’s location between 17th and 18th streets is more attractive than Lefferts South’s. But per a reader who’s been watching Caton Court go up—and is rooting for it to sell well—the new building’s coordinates are potentially problematic:
The avenue itself is an incessantly clogged noisy truck route, and the Church Ave. IND station, in need of an upgrade throughout, is at its very worst at the Caton Avenue end, a virtual ruin. The commercial strip a block away on Church Avenue is pure crap, and when they roll down the grates in the evening it’s creepy…I wonder whether new residents will want to pay whatever they’re asking to be the gentrifying pioneers on what is currently a very gritty working-class corridor.
Predictions?
GMAP
Going rental in 4… 3… 2…
if the windows and walls are built to deal with truck noise, i think its a nice place in a good location…very close to the park, subway nearby…near the nice victorian landmarked area..yeach church ave sucks but its bound to get better..cortelyou is reasonably close and has some great spots…the areas around the parade grounds is improving…the old hospital was bought by a developer and will become a new condo development…good potential
tell it, Brenda. Way to call ’em out.
Going rental in 5… 4… 3…
“Ahem,” “ahem,” says 12:44 p.m.
Who says “the heart of darkness”
When he’s thinking, “us and them.”
More condo now than Conrad, dear 12:44 p.m.,
Describes the bit of Flatbush about which you haw and hem.
But your comment stands distinguished as a racist little gem.
Grab your hankie, now, 12:44, it’s time for talking straight,
For 20 years I’ve walked my white self home from work here, late–
And never met a trace of your demurely coughed-up hate.
I agree that parking there is awful. Ever time I park my car there, it gets stolen!
I live in a coop two buildings away. It’s true, the truck traffic is awful, and really a disgrace that it’s there at all, amidst such a volume of residential buildings. That said, it’s two blocks from prospect park, and the area can only get better. And the subway access is excellent.
The building is ugly… you’d be better off getting something in one of the pretty old buildings from the 20’s around there:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/03/ocean_avenue_si.php
If anyone else around there wants to join up with me to get rid of the truck traffic, let me know!
that area does have upside..
it will sell, but slowly
Oh yeah, and parking around there is a NIGHTMARE.
-guest 1:03