First Look at Love Lane Mews
[nggallery id=”53031″ template=galleryview] Brooklyn Heights’ Love Lane Mews launched sales in early December, and as construction wraps we got a chance to tour the 38-unit development–which is fairly unique in that it has 36 distinct layouts. The one-, two- and three-bedrooms are asking between $1 million and $2,450,000. The end of February should bring the…
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Brooklyn Heights’ Love Lane Mews launched sales in early December, and as construction wraps we got a chance to tour the 38-unit development–which is fairly unique in that it has 36 distinct layouts. The one-, two- and three-bedrooms are asking between $1 million and $2,450,000. The end of February should bring the end of construction, and developers are currently negotiating with around a half-dozen prospective buyers. Four units, meanwhile, are currently in contract. Overall we were impressed with the setup, especially the two units with basement space. The layouts are some of the more diverse we’ve seen in new Brooklyn developments. Anyone toured the Mews themselves?
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We are the sales and marketing agent for Love Lane Mews and after reading the post on the project from January 26, 2011, and some of the posts that followed, we wanted to make some clarifications: All heating and air conditioning is provided by energy efficient, top-of-the-line, reverse cycle heat pumps, not by PTAC units (packaged terminal air conditioners). Love Lane Mews is in the Landmarked district of Brooklyn Heights and a through-the-wall unit would have compromised the façade of the building.
The finishes at Love Lane Mews are top notch. Visit our model home and you will find solid white oak flooring and solid cherry wood cabinetry – Viking and Bosch appliances, fixtures by Grohe, Zuma soaking tubs and Toto toilets. The homes also have the most closet space of any development we have represented.
Prices at Love Lane Mews average $1,200 psf, not the $1,300 reported by several commentators. But the real story is that most of our units, with the exception of the Penthouses and largest three bedrooms, are priced between $1,000 to $1,100 psf. Compare to Tribeca: $1,400 to $1,800 psf or Soho or the West Village at even higher prices. Additionally, each unit comes with a parking space for which there is no additional charge – a deal in the parking space-starved Heights.
I just dont understand who pays this sort of $. I am in the top 2% of earners in the US and if I pay the standard 30% of take home income on my house I still can only afford something in the 800-900k range. If I really stretch maybe I can get to 1mm, and I have 2 kids. I dont get who these poeple are who can plop down 2.5mm for an average apt which prob costs 1k a month in maintenance then taxes…
Yeah yeah I know, I need to move….
PTAC units in an apartment you’re paying over 2 million for? Oh come on man! If you want your television and your conversation being drowned out everytime your PTAC heater/airconditioner kicks in then buy an apartment with PTACs. Trust me, I live with them and it drives me crazy. I can’t believe they made such a high end development and cheaped out on the heating/cooling systems! how about radiant floor heating or central cooling/heating? PTACs suck!
A bit shocked by what many of you have posted. How could anyone be impressed with anything inside these apartments. The exterior is nice and the windows but it stops there. Does anyone stop and think what the differences are between rental quality, cheap new construction and luxury. This building is pricing itself as luxury with their sq ft. price and it is really rental quality. Or are we comparing it to low income housing? If so I would say they are the same.
Mentions of glass backsplash, Viking stove and bosch dishwasher, granite counters, A/C, actual hard wood floors, actual wood cabinets…. are you kidding me?? These things are so basic and standard. If you add up the difference in price from what you consider luxury compared to most low-income housing you will find a difference of about $25,000.00 Is this what you get excited about. I agree with many who are startled by the PTAC cooling/heating system. Those are a complete joke. As they are being used all over our country in every new construction our country is a joke as well.
Luxury is about consideration, planning, design, specification, refinement and thorough completion. I see none of this here.
So lets say you are looking at these as raw space to recreate something luxurious on your own. So add $ 250/sqft on top of the purchase price to start. So where does that leave you.
I can’t wait to see the people who buy in here walking in and out as they use the 3rd world train station at Clark Street. They will see me laughing.
Yes I viewed them about 3 weeks ago
I wish that everyone that posted here had to link to photos and floor plans of their own places…
fsrg, I didn’t see you mention it, but where you in the apts?
Wow, so much learning here – thanks everyone. What a good thread.
Let be clearer – I am not making a judgment about the cost of the materials used [but btw bathrooms dont even have radiant heat]- I am making a judgment about the way the units look/feel and the quality of construction.
The units feel cheap – not rental cheap but not up to what I’d expect (even in Brooklyn Heights) at $1300 a sq ft with common/tax of a $1.35per sq ft.
The tile work was obviously shoddy. The way the Sheetrock meets the exposed brick isnt well finished; the hardware used around the apartment is crappy, etc….
again I am not saying they wont sell, but for my $, if I am going to spend 2+M on an apartment I dont want to have to redo it in a couple of years cause I want to rid the place of the builders ‘stink’.