Potential Opportunities
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Opportunity of the Day: 259 Pacific
While the outside of this perfectly located property, 259 Pacific Street, doesn’t look like much, we have very high hopes for the inside. We’re thinking of this as a two-family, and because of its condition, it’s amenable to a number of configurations and sizes (you can check out some of these potential layouts on the [...]
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Atlantic Yards Holdouts Refuse to Leave (Real Deal) Elliman: Brownstones Kick Ass in Q1 (Brownstoner) Don’t Bet the Farm on Housing Recovery (NY Times) Developer Won’t Be Adding 6 Stories (Brooklyn Eagle) Preservation or Gentrification in Red Hook (Brooklyn Paper)
Help Plan the Brooklyn Greenway Tonight!
One of the things that makes a neighborhood desirable is green space, but we can be a little creative about what those green spaces look like. For instance, there’s the Brooklyn Greenway, a 14-mile bike and walking path set to connect Brooklyn from Greepoint to Sunset Park. Although part of the path is already completed, [...]
Welcome Our Newest Team Member, Montrose Morris
The real Montrose Morris, one of Brooklyn’s most successful architects at the turn of the 19th century, and a master networker, designed some of our borough’s most beautiful buildings: Brooklyn Heights’ Arlington Apartments; Clinton Hill’s Arbuckle Mansion; Prospect Park West’s Hulbert Mansion. But Montrose’s name and legend live on in the form of Montrose Morris, [...]
On the Market: 72 Poplar
The former 84th police precinct–a woefully under-developed property at 72 Poplar Street–is officially up for offer. We’ve envisioned the vast property as a collection of studios, one- and two-bedrooms, with common amenities like gardens and a green roof. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, the current owners are testing the real estate waters with an asking [...]
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Most Livable Places in NYC (New York) Red Hook Lobsters in BB Park? (Grub Street/NY) 75 Clinton Conversion Commences (Brownstoner) Hoping for Sudan Peace, Bklyn Home (NY Times) Lenders Loosen Reins on Jumbo Mortgages (NY Times)
54 State Street Trades Hands
Back on March 26th we stated that 54 State Street may be in contract. Well that looks to be the case as a transaction occured on March 19, 2010, deed recorded April 8, 2010. Public records indicate the sale price to be $2,300,000, or $347 per sq ft. Our open Survey was indicating an acquisition [...]
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