tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post4163631748152808801..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: a sunday in the life, part IClarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-79998343581495238782016-12-02T16:13:38.878-05:002016-12-02T16:13:38.878-05:00The building housing the Rite Aid just south of th...The building housing the Rite Aid just south of the Dutch Reformed Church, on Flatbush below Church, recently sold for $8.5m. Back of the napkin calculations indicate it could be a 8-10 story building with retail on the bottom and 100 units up top. But it's probably pretty profitable to just leave as is for a while. Heavily trafficked area. Jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-82129680703919545492016-12-01T16:47:31.883-05:002016-12-01T16:47:31.883-05:00I agree with the first commenter.
Actually if we ...I agree with the first commenter. <br />Actually if we really wanted to change the way new buildings look, we have to convince developers that they will get higher rents for a building that looks a certain way. This is why we have so many ridiculous "neo-medieval" 1920s buildings lining Ocean Ave (which I love) - that was considered "high class" to the folks fleeing the Lower East Side for Flatbush. Knights and shields and crests and Sherwood Forrest. <br />Some misguided developer in Bushwick just created a "subway-themed" building. Bleh. <br />Get Hannah Horbach to devote an episode of Girls to how she loves her historically reproduced faux-brownstone condo and you are set. Jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-65486525730066040932016-11-30T10:19:21.797-05:002016-11-30T10:19:21.797-05:00The Associated is probably pretty safe, for now......The Associated is probably pretty safe, for now... It's current lot is zoned as commercial office (costs a little extra for the paperwork to change this over) with only 3.44 for residential, which is the same that 626 has. But their lot size, most important factor with FAR, is 52,265 compared to 19,650. So they would never be able to get a building like 626 on that area. 626 has roughly 225,000 SQFT and the associated could only ever be roughly 85,000. You could see something in line with the Lincoln Road building by the train, especially when you take a couple other factors into consideration like sky exposure plane and street frontage requirements. It will happen eventually, and could happen without really losing the ground floor grocery store, but I think you're looking at close to a decade before someone makes that jump.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-64152627621473033392016-11-29T16:03:37.258-05:002016-11-29T16:03:37.258-05:00Never too early to l'arn them on the ways of t...Never too early to l'arn them on the ways of the Mother Continent my good man.Clarkson FlatBedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-1233798089930617312016-11-29T16:01:12.252-05:002016-11-29T16:01:12.252-05:00You went to a bidet party for kids!? What an unusu...You went to a bidet party for kids!? What an unusual new business. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-77140097309971582602016-11-28T12:20:38.678-05:002016-11-28T12:20:38.678-05:00I wish Blue Sky didn't close so early, but the...I wish Blue Sky didn't close so early, but then again they tend to run out of their small selection of pastries rather early. I'm keen to try out Michael Allen's as I only recently re-discovered them whilst returning home from work on Halloween after missing my stop and ending up at Winthrop!Curious31noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-84872895585669798402016-11-28T11:50:04.453-05:002016-11-28T11:50:04.453-05:00626 Flatbush is far more easy on the eyes than tho...626 Flatbush is far more easy on the eyes than those awful condos they put on narrow lots you show renderings for. The little old houses aren't masterpieces but at least replace them with better looking buildings. There are some decent historic repro condos going up in some places. Can't we ask developers to do the same here? That's my problem with a protest that can't win, the attempt to stop all new buildings everywhere, the result that we can't form a good relationship with developers and influence the design of the new building. Change zoning yes, but at times when it's inevitable, then change the look of the building.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com