Development Watch: Love Lane Mews
[nggallery id=”40240″ template=galleryview] No one’s going to accuse the developers of the five-building project in Brooklyn Heights known as Love Lane Mews of rushing things, that’s for sure! As The Brooklyn Eagle reported last fall, though, some of that delay can be attributed to complex structural issues at the foundation level; more specifically, the five…
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No one’s going to accuse the developers of the five-building project in Brooklyn Heights known as Love Lane Mews of rushing things, that’s for sure! As The Brooklyn Eagle reported last fall, though, some of that delay can be attributed to complex structural issues at the foundation level; more specifically, the five buildings are being realigned at the cellar level, a task only complicated by the fact that all five buildings were built out of different materials. When all’s said and done, the four buildings on the western side of the street will be divided into 38 apartments while the building on the east side (photo #2) will be converted into two townhouses.
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Love Lane Mews Partner Gets Bought Out [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: Love Lane Mews with Skylight Views [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: Love Lane Mews Floorplans Revealed [Brownstoner]
Love Lane Conversion Getting Traction [Brownstoner]
“Contextual” Condo Design for Love Lane [Brownstoner]
The Latest on the Love Lane Garage? [Brownstoner]
You are right; it’s a realization I reached myself a while ago. I spend less and less time here, although I do learn things from time to time, so it pays to check in.
My only emotional stake is in reasoned thinking, but I certainly have no right (or power) to impose that on others who post. Please carry on with your often ill-informed gut reactions to things. Scatological humor is always welcome as well. Is this a great country, or what?
g_man, it didn’t even occur to me to look at your profile until you brought it up. What Minard said.
q man: obviously you have some financial or emotional stake in this project and are lashing out at folks like me who question it. But it is my right to do so. If you disapprove of blogs like this one, you shouldn’t log on.
So, Minard, you have a vague understanding of the history of this project (no mention of the Mets?), apparently know nothing about the track record of the current developer (former heavyweight at HPD), and have never done any real estate development yourself, but in true blog-fashion, you have all sorts of insight into this deal. Don’t mind me, I’m just being cranky too, with little patience for armchair quarterbacking by people who know little about a specific project or the real estate development business. Please don’t take it personal; it’s really more a general attack on one form of the Brownstoner discourse. Oh, and CGar, since I say (generically) who I am in my profile, nice guess.
The former owners were the Wilpon family (NY Mets). Some of the garage employees are now working at Bailout Field. My family had parked there for 25 years. I miss parking there, but I think this development will be nice once it is completed. Not enough 3BR’s in their design, imho.
As I understand the story, the former owners owned the building outright for like forty years, I think they wanted to cash out and rather than sell the building to another parking concern, they sold to a group of developers who felt that these garages could be turned into fabulously expensive Brooklyn Heights condos and everybody would make a fortune. I don’t know anything more except that the construction phase has really dragged on. The work has not stopped completely, so that puts them ahead of most. I just feel cranky about this particular development, it will probably turn out OK eventually but it probably wasn’t the goldmine that the original investors expected.
awww I parked my shitbox beach car in the LL garage during my very first NYC summer (’99). A lot of fun times started and ended on Love Lane….
Views aren’t everything. Living in the heart of Brooklyn Heights has a lot of advantages and there are precious few newly developed buildings nearby. I think a lot of people would be more interested in this than living in Downtown Brooklyn with a beautiful view from the window but not much to see when you step out front of the building…
I’m with Ringo. I love old garages, factories, etc. converted to housing. I’ll be interested to see how these turn out. I haven’t been following this development much. Are there floor plans or renderings somewhere? Clearly the townhouses are out of my budget, but I’d be interested in the apartments. Aside from CVS’s garbage, you can’t beat the location in Brooklyn Heights, and since there’s no new real estate being created in the Heights (other than the park) you’re left converting garages. The one on State & Garden Place is probably the next to go.
And, Minard, sounds like g_man is the developer.