Condo Coming to Union Street in the Slope
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the developers who purchased 910 Union Street in Park Slope—formerly home to the Cathedral School of Brooklyn, between 8th Avenue and the park—are gearing up to build a seven-story condo on the site. The 15-unit building, according to the developers, will be “contextual with the rest of Brooklyn and the…
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the developers who purchased 910 Union Street in Park Slope—formerly home to the Cathedral School of Brooklyn, between 8th Avenue and the park—are gearing up to build a seven-story condo on the site. The 15-unit building, according to the developers, will be “contextual with the rest of Brooklyn and the block…We’ll use red brick and minimal glass.” The article doesn’t give a time-frame for the build, which is supposed to include a medical office and gym in addition to the condos. The developers purchased the property three years ago for $5 million. Update: More info on the medical space via this listing (PDF), which says it will be complete by spring of next year.
Condo Near Grand Army Plaza Moves Ahead [Brooklyn Paper] GMAP DOB
Because like many things on here and elsewhere, you can’t tell the whole story about something from ONE photo. Not even a photo in this case…a computerized version of a photo.
Why is everyone here so quick to judge everything so negatively before they know any facts?
dylanfan — If that’s what they’re doing (which would be great), why doesn’t the rendering reflect this? In other words, it doesn’t look like their doing that!
The rendering above and the one shown on the listing for the medical office are quite different, though neither is attractive.
This building was on the list of next buildings to be landmarked, so the developer who bought it rushed to get his permits and then sat on it for years. He then had to bring in more partners to help with financing issues.
They are preserving the bottom of the building and adding four floors on top.
for some reason my pearls of wisdom aren’t posting–
According to one of the links, the ‘architects’ appear to be these people:
http://www.kushnerstudios.com/
Judging by the look of this site, I would say we made out well, very relatively speaking…
As far as I knew, they WERE saving the old part and building on top. Hard to tell from a photo whether that’s actually the case or not.
Kensington, because that block of Union is always backed up and a job going on will make it MUCH worse, with more horn honking on block and backups into 8th Avenue
Everyone’s right. Saving the facade and building above/behind it would be so much more attractive.
Good god that looks awful. Instead of half-ass retaining the facade, why not just retain the facade and building on-top/behind? It looks like a precast, tilt-up concrete parking garage.
This is awful. Let’s get rid of the pastiche of the arches, the weird, full-height “bow,” and that terrible rendition of a broken pediment for the entryway.