Development Watch: Inside 37 Bridge Street

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Last week we got to walk through the ongoing conversion project at 37-43 Bridge Street in Dumbo. The project is notable for its adaptive reuse of the existing six-story steel silos that remained at 37 Bridge Street from when it was a soap factory. As we saw last month in this video, the silos are being sliced up and, in some cases, repurposed to form the organizing design principal of new condominium. He catches enough crap from us and others for all the stuff he doesn’t do right that we gotta give a big nod to Robert Scarano for being the architect of record on this one. (He didn’t design it, but it was the brainchild of a former employee named Dedy Blaustein and he championed it.) Anyway, in our opinion, the current design divides the apartments into way too many small bedrooms instead of letting to silos rule the day in larger, loftier spaces, but the approach and vision of the adaptive reuse is very laudable. In related news, the attached building at 43 Bridge Street (photos 8-10) is being turned into 3 townhouses. Also a cool idea.
Checking In at 37 Bridge Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 37 Bridge Street [Brownstoner]