Demo Permit Filed for Decrepit Commercial Building in Brooklyn Heights

A two-story Brooklyn Heights building at 153 Remsen Street that looks like it’s seen better days is coming down and may be replaced by a new development. Quinlan Development, which owns the commercial building, filed a demo application yesterday to knock it down.

As it happens, last summer The Brooklyn Daily Eagle detailed the sad little building’s journey from Vietnamese restaurant and YMCA offices to a decaying, vacant storefront a few months after developer Tim Quinlan purchased it.

Quinlan, who’s also developing a 60-unit rental at 267 Pacific Street, paid $2,791,594 a year ago for the 2,300-square-foot lot between Court and Clinton streets. The building’s former owner, Fred Musser, let it decay while he made plans to convert it to a hotel, according to the story. Zoning allows for a development of 23,000 square feet, according to PropertyShark. What would you like to see go up here? GMAP