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There goes Sea Crest Linen...
Rachel Holliday Smith at DNA Info kicks it into high gear, reporting this time on a big new development in our midst. The Q hasn't time today to spend on this one, but from Smith's article:
CROWN HEIGHTS — A former commercial laundry facility near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Medgar Evers College has been sold to a real estate company with experience in multimillion-dollar development projects in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Cornell Realty Management bought 46 Crown St. on March 27 for $14.5 million, according to public records. The lot contains three one-story buildings and a smokestack on the eastern half of a city block split by the Franklin Avenue Shuttle.
The buildings once housed Sea Crest Linen, a commercial laundering company also known as Central Laundry Service Corp. The 38,000-square-foot site has been used by various laundry companies since at least 1935, according to building records.
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NB: This site is apparently zoned R7A. So, it'd be legal to build a large apartment building there.
Not that the Q's opinion is good for much, but I'm much less concerned about height here than right along the park. Still, the density will be really intense over there, with likely more to come. It's only a matter of time before someone offers enough for the Spice Factory.
Density is right. When BBG has something like the Cherry Blossom thing happening, you can't get up or down Flatbush, Washington, or Franklin Aves. for love or money. (Unless of course you walk. But Snobs don't walk!) Up at the northern end of Lefferts, it's starting to feel a little claustrophobic.
The spice factory is totally next to go. Sad. I'll miss the smells.
Separate question, though, but on the subject of development: what is the deal with the abandoned shells of buildings on Flatbush, I think the addresses are 602 and/or 604? They've just been sitting there rotting for years, giving off the appearance of blight. Would be great to see them house businesses and people.
Hi, Alex, there is a lot at 931 Carroll Street that apparently just sold as well. It's right near the Franklin Avenue Shuttle tracks. All along those tracks up to Eastern Parkway is zoned R7A, I believe. source: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/39263/931-carroll-between-franklin-and-the-shuttle-tracks#Item_4
Is the spice factory on the market?
The Snob, from what I've seen the traffic on Washington was worse than traffic on Flatbush during Sakura Matusri at BBG. (Why people insist on driving when there are perfectly good mass-transit options nearby baffles me.)
Golembeck Spice - definitely not on the market, yet. Spice up the price and it'll sell real nice.
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