Excavation Begins at Fox Savoy Theater Site in Crown Heights

Work has begun on the 10-story apartment building that will rise on the site of the former Fox Savoy Theater at 1515 Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights. Earth movers began excavating at Bedford and Lincoln last week, digging out the basement for the new building and pulling out the last remaining pieces of the old theater’s foundation.

The Thomas Lamb-designed movie palace was originally built in 1926 for motion picture magnate William Fox of 20th Century Fox, and it featured an ornate neo-Classical facade made of white terra cotta. The grand old building was torn down last fall, after its most recent owners, a church, sold it to a developer for a low-seeming $575,000, as readers will recall. 

When it’s finished, the new development will have 114 apartments, 60 parking spaces, ground-floor community space and retail, including, as far as we know, space for the church. Issac and Stern is designing it, and the developer is Yosi Cohen of Realty Within Reach.

1515 Bedford Avenue/Fox Savoy Theater Coverage [Brownstoner]