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Monthly Archives: February 2010
UPDATE on 183 Columbia Heights
Certainly a lot of press recently about the prospects of the Watchtower divesting of their real estate holdings in Brooklyn Heights. Kind of old news. As I have been in close contact with them over the past few years I have first hand knowledge of what may or may not be for sale right now. [...]
UPDATE on 28 2nd Place
The word on the street is that 28 2nd Place has found a buyer, at $2.2M, or $300,000 below current ask of $2.5M. $2.2M works out to about $366 psf. Not bad for an owner/user. Way too high for redevelopment purposes though. As you can see on our survey page, estimated rehabilitation costs for this [...]
Opportunity of the Day: 54 State Street
At 54 State Street, we’re envisioning ten large one-bedrooms, 720 square feet each, in a building that was once mistakenly slated to be torn down before the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Department of Buildings stepped in. While the outside is now protected, the insides have been completely gutted, allowing for an entirely reinvented space [...]
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Price Reduction Report (Miller-Samuel) A Contrarian’s Lament: Gentrification (NYT) How Recession Changed Migration (The American) Toll Bros Look to Dumbo (Brooklyn Paper)
MHB to Sponsor BHA Literary Readings in Historic Homes
We’re proud to be the exclusive sponsor of the upcoming Brooklyn Heights Association’s “Evenings of Readings” to celebrate their centennial. There will be three literary events situated in historic homes. The first, on April 26th, will be held in Truman Capote’s beautiful maintained house on Willow Street (which was dubbed “Brooklyn’s Most Expensive Rental” a [...]
From Gentrifier to Gentrifiee
I moved to Park Slope in 1993, fresh from college, for two reasons: my brother told me to, and it was cheap. It was the neighborhood, he said, that most evoked the northeastern liberal college town where we’d grown up, where I’d spent my youth longing for better quarters (I’d yearned to reside in the [...]
Platinum Green for Sterling Prices
We often think of “green” housing as costing a lot of green, too; the perception is that environmentally-friendly accommodations fetch a prettier penny than the standard fare. That’s why we were interested to read this interview with Jonathan Rose, founder and president of his eponymous company which creates both non-profit and for-profit sustainable housing. Their [...]
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Posted in blog Tagged affordable green housing, green building, jonathan rose, new york times
