What's Up With The New Building on Myrtle?
A reader sent us this photo of this new building on Myrtle Avenue at Adelphi. We didn’t know anything about it but share his curiosity. As far as we’re concerned, the design works fine for a commercial avenue like Myrtle though we’re not wild about the break in the rooflines. Nothing to get our knickers…
A reader sent us this photo of this new building on Myrtle Avenue at Adelphi. We didn’t know anything about it but share his curiosity. As far as we’re concerned, the design works fine for a commercial avenue like Myrtle though we’re not wild about the break in the rooflines. Nothing to get our knickers in a twist about anyway. Anyone got the goods? Who built it? What’s it being used for? GMAP
Re: the fence and new development at Hall and Washington, the lot’s for sale along with accepted development plans for 54 units, for only $10M. Get it while it’s hot! 🙂
Check it out: 163-171 Washington Avenue, http://www.masseyknakal.com/
Speaking of supporting locally owned businesses, for dinner, if you haven’t tried “abistro” yet on Carlton Avenue just south of Myrtle, you really must. The owners, a husband and wife team, live just two doors down from the restaurant. They’ve been open almost a year now, serve Senegalese fusion, the food is great, and in my opinion, very consistent compared to many in the hood. It’s sort of hard to spot, white storefront, small space. But bring your own wine, their still working on the liquor license.
Amen!! There’s no help better than self-help! I’m a big proponent of having friends from other nabes meet in FG/CH for dinner and drinks. Every little bit helps!
Just to hijack this thread again, I agree with anon 6:45, whether Myrtle or Fulton, the message is to put your money where your mouth is and actually use the decent businesses in the neighborhood as much as possible. Flourishing businesses will attract others.
Anyone see the fence going up on Hall and Washington for the new “lux condos”? Does anyone know anything about them? I called for info but was told it would be about two months before they had anything on a website, etc.
The eastern part of Fulton is in East New York.
I live around the corner, casually work in real estate, and have met the owner of the new building posted above. It will be condos, not sure how many, but the owner will be living in one of them.
As for across the street on the corner of Clermont, I hang out in Pillow a lot too, and Alan, rumours of Pratt buying up that land, and/or B&N going in are just that, rumours. Just check Property Shark or Dept. of Finance records to see the new owners buying up the land. There was an article in the Brooklyn Eagle a ways back with a rendering of the planned building, but it looks like they abandoned that plan to make the site larger. They must have bought out Pluto’s and the others. I just hope they don’t keep going down the block. Another rumour has it that the developers are backed/financed by Ratner, which is why they’ve been able to just sit on the property for so long while buying up more. OK, just found the original rendering, it’s still up on the developers website: http://www.brpdev.com/. Again, it’s very outdated as the building site is almost twice as large as was when this rendering came out.
Someone else made a comment about the Myrtle Avenue BID charging high rents. BID’s don’t set retail rents, landlords do. The owner’s of Pillow work closely with the BID, and they’ve said that the BID has been trying to convince property owners on Myrtle to keep their retail rents affordable in order to attract local businesses, but many of the new investors that have come to the avenue speculating on further improvements want the so-called trouble-free tenant, i.e. the chain, to come in and pay them high rents. Little do they know, most chains aren’t interested in Myrtle (not yet, that is), and they’re no fools. They’re not going to pay over market rate. All this being said, the large site that is growing at Clermont means new construction, and most new construction of that size inevitably means that the developers will go after chains, since they are deemed “credit-worthy” by the banks and financers.
Sorry, long post. As for the Adami’s and other recent info on Myrtle, I usually check out http://www.myrtleavenue.org which has some pretty good info, plus business listings and menus. These guys, MARP and the BID, are part of the reason Myrtle has been evolving fairly nicely, and relatively faster that the eastern part of Fulton.
Someone upscale MF’er walked into my bodega on Fulton.
Mumbled something about it “not being charming”
My little dog didn’t like his looks. Ripped his balls off.
Blood everywhere. Nasty.
Bodegas is the name of a restaurant at Wavery and Fulton.