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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Where the Jackhammers Have Gone Quiet
You don’t necessarily need an electronic tool to detect abandoned construction projects in Brooklyn; it’s easy enough to spy the silent cranes and frozen-in-time steel frames that have stood, untouched, for months. But it can be hard to discern the scope of the problem, the number of projects, the depth of the freeze. So newly-elected [...]
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Posted in blog Tagged abandoned properties, brad lander, brooklyn development, stalled development
Posted in blog Tagged abandoned properties, brad lander, brooklyn development, stalled development
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Mapping Stalled Sites (Brownstoner) Old Fulton, New Housing (Curbed) Housing Market to Double Dip (Real Deal) Blight and Eminent Domain (Real Deal)
Foreclosing on Inappropriateness
We’ve all seen new, sparkling, high-rise condos scattered throughout Brooklyn, often misplaced among a low-height residential block. It doesn’t take much, considering the 23% jump in home foreclosures since last October, to imagine the vertical graveyards that dot the landscape across the country. Responding to the surge in empty homes, the public radio show “The [...]
Opportunity of the Day: 72 Poplar Street
72 Poplar has many possibilities. Our aim would be to create studio, one- and two-bedroom units in this prime location in Brooklyn Heights. It has a pretty interesting history, having once served as the internal affairs department for the New York City police. Since then, it’s been fully gutted and is now vacant. We want [...]
Architecture 101: 72 Poplar
One of the advantages of working in historic and landmark districts is that many of the properties within them have storied architectural pasts. 72 Poplar, for instance, is the former Police Precinct Station House, according to the AIA Guide to New York City (the newest edition will be out in a couple of months). The [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged 72 Poplar Street, architectural history, florentine style
Opportunity of the Day: 183 Columbia Heights
183 Columbia Heights is a rare find: a beautiful, well-maintained building that’s perfectly positioned for reinvention. One of the things we like about it is its flexibility: the layout can be tweaked to an owner’s delight. We’re talking about spacious units, with three bedrooms and two baths, in what is arguably Brooklyn’s most desirable neighborhood. [...]
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Manhattan Prices Doubled in Decade (Curbed) Fewer Beds, Baths in Shrinking Homes (Planetizen) Decay in Suburbia (Fast Company) Brooklyn Bridge Park Private-Public? (B’Stoner)
Opportunity of the Day: 259 Pacific
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