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Granted, this is kind of an odd lot, but it’s still interesting to learn that the 18-by-34-foot lot at 218 Broadway in Williamsburg recently sold for $400,000. That’s a little over $700 a foot. More importantly, though, based on the information on PropertyShark, the sales price comes out to $208 per buildable square foot. Given the heinous building that went up a few years ago next door and the high-traffic location, we doubt that whatever gets built here will be able to slap the word “luxury” on its marketing docs. You can say goodbye to those lot-line windows too. GMAP


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  1. This post demonstrates why all the “developers are scum” and “why do they build such crap” talk here is so uninformed. Developers generally have to BUY the land and the land price is based on the build-able SF-age.
    I.E. the developer generally has set fixed costs and therefore the profit is a pretty thin margin between the $ per buildable foot+development costs-Market price for eventual units.

  2. Given the zoning and the strange configuration, this is probably better as a commercial development with a community facility component. The buildout described in the post ($208 per buildable foot) is for commercial only, I think. There are different numbers for residential and community facility.