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July 25, 2005

Massive Bed Stuy Condo Development On Way

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We drove past this large lot on Myrtle and Nostrand last week and were able to find a hole in the fence to sneak a picture. When we inquired at a store across the street, the extremely up-on-his-real-estate proprietor informed us that this was going to be a huge condo development. Lots of 1,000-square-foot two bedrooms for $450 a foot, he informed us. When we started asking around among brokers, we were quickly directed to the website below which was created by the previous owners who were looking to flip the site with approved plans. A tip that everybody's favorite architect Scarano & Associates was behind the design led us to a treasure trove of info on what we've now learned is called Myrtle Place: 74,000 square feet of residential areas shared by 72 apartments, more than 14,000 square feet of commercial spaces, an underground parking garage for 42 cars and 2,500 square feet of medical offices. They have the brashness to claim that the site is located in Clinton Hill--probably the biggest reach we've heard yet. Large-scale luxury living in Bed Stuy is slated for November of 2006.
A rendering of the project on the jump...
Unique Development Opportunity [Bedfordcrown.com] GMAP
Myrtle Place [Scarano]

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Posted by Brownstoner at 9:45 AM | Comments (19)
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How about the HUGE house next door? What is the deal with that. I passed it a couple of times and it looks almost like a mansion

Posted by: tom at July 25, 2005 9:18 AM

someone told me they were putting a wholefoods in this complex.

Posted by: pietro at July 25, 2005 9:23 AM

That's what we heard, too. Can anyone confirm?

Posted by: Brownstoner at July 25, 2005 9:25 AM

Are all of the projects for residential multifamily buildings on the Scaranno site definitely going to be built. There are so many of them. And by the way, Scaranno does call "Myrtle Place" Bed Stuy. Maybe the other link says Cl.Hill.

As far as the Scarano projects go, just in Clinton Hill/Fort Greene I could see project for Grand Ave, Dekalb Ave (though I think that one is in Bed Stuy), Hanson Place, Carlton Avenue, and Clinton Avenue. Not sure of the cross streets on any of these, would have to research further. Plus, in Boerum Hill I saw Bergen Street (could be P. Heights too, not sure, they called it clinton Hill, Pacific Street and Boerum Place to name few. Quite a bit in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens (with one exceptionally ugly one in Bond Street in Carroll Gardens). There was also one on Underhill in P. Heights, but I think that is the one that SetSpeed has been talking about, the "Washington Condos".

This is all just from one architect. If these are all going ahead, then it is quite a bit of development - which I do not necessarily think is a bad thing, just hope it looks nice and is quality construction.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 25, 2005 10:41 AM

Had another look at the Scarano site, the Boerum Place development was built in 2002, though the others look like they are slated to go up in 2006.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 25, 2005 11:06 AM

The Warren Street/Boerum (between Smith and Hoyt) on the Scarano site is in construction progress -pouring foundation.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 25, 2005 11:29 AM

I also heard something about a whole foods, and I could be wrong but I think A&H is marketing these, what I do know is that I wouldn't live there.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 25, 2005 12:51 PM

I've lived around the corner from this site for the last year and I'm really hoping for a whole foods.

The big house that an earlier poster commented on is really a special building. The brick work on the house is extradordinary. Even on a block with plenty of brownstones, this one stands out. Check out its roof line. The iron work is amazing.

I've lived on this block for almost exactly one year and I've been watching the neighborhood for two years. There's a lot of crap construction going up so I'm glad to see a well thoughout building taking up that large lot.

Posted by: victor at July 25, 2005 6:12 PM

i'm sorry to have be the one to report to victor that the phrases "scarano & associates" and "well thought out building" have never appeared in a sentence together, and this is unlikely to change. see williamsburg -- pretty much all of it -- for several fresh and sterling examples of shoddy, tasteless and just plain ugly scarano architecture.

see williamsburg also for proof that most of the residential multifamily buildings on the scarano website do in fact get built sooner or later. unfortunately.

Posted by: longtime wburger at July 26, 2005 1:48 AM

Also.. there is a Home Depot opening very soon around the corner from this new development.

Posted by: SC at July 26, 2005 9:45 AM

When you compare anything by Scarano & Associates to the "developer-special" residential construction going up in the northern side of bed-stuy it does seem well thought out.

I'm not comparing it McKim, Mead and White, just to the nasty pink brick, cinder block houses that are going up all over the northern side of bedstuy.

Fine it probably won't become a landmark in fifty years but at least its not a box built with the cheapest possible brick and the cheapest legally acceptable windows. New construction standards are so poor right now that it hurts.

Its awful what is being done to the area. This place, while not a modern brownstone palace has been thought out to be more then just a cheap and nasty way to flip some land before the bubble bursts. It will probably bring a supermarket (of some brand) into the neighborhood and a couple of hundred people to an area that needs more street life. Come on now, give them some credit. The owner (myrtle place llc) could have just bought the land and built 10 ugly 2 or 3 family houses and called it a profit. Even worse, they could have built Section-8 specials. But they didn't. So come on now, give everyone involved here a break.

P.S. To whoever arch59@aol.com is, stop yelling at me. I don't care for your opinion if you are going to yell in your email. All I said is I hope its a whole foods... if you don't think it will happen-- great. you're probably right... but don't yell at me just because I'm hoping for a nice supermarket around the corner from my own house.

Posted by: victor at July 26, 2005 7:04 PM

Oh and the HD opens on August 18 according to the sign on the parking lot.

Posted by: victor at July 26, 2005 7:05 PM

Ever shopped at Whole Foods? While the quality is lovely, the prices make those nasty bodegas look cheap. what Brooklyn needs is a TRADER JOE'S!!

Posted by: culprit at August 17, 2005 6:17 PM

Did anyone mention that across the street from this huge effort in Bedstuy is the Macy Ave Projects???

Myrtle and Nostrand Ave.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 4, 2005 10:55 AM

DOES SCARANNO KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING? ISN'T THIS THE GUY WHO DID THOSE MEZZ'S THAT WERE NOT LEGAL?

Posted by: MARK at October 30, 2005 12:32 PM

DOES SCARANNO KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING? ISN'T THIS THE GUY WHO DID THOSE MEZZ'S THAT WERE NOT LEGAL?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 30, 2005 12:33 PM

YES, MYRTLE AVENUE IS MOVING ALONG ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE AND WHO KNOWS MAYBE EVEN WITH A WHOLE FOODS.
THE JOB WILL OFFER THE BEST VALUE IN AND AROUND BROOKLYN

SCARANO

Posted by: ROBERT SCARANO at November 12, 2005 6:15 PM

It would be a nice thing if these were apartment building being built. There are people from the Neighborhood with mothers who will not leave... so a good place to live in this area would not be a bad thing. I believe the area is getting better and we need places like this for those of us who want better.

Posted by: t_isme at March 1, 2006 12:29 PM

arch59@aol.com is Robert Scarano the architect.

Posted by: Casa at December 3, 2006 9:48 AM

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