After much deliberation, I have decided to leave Corcoran and join Compass, a relatively new company seeking expansion into the Brooklyn market. I was at Corcoran for nearly ten years and enjoyed every day of my time there. I love the people -- truly some of the brightest, most professional agents in the City (and a lot of fun to work with) -- and I will miss them.
Compass is innovative in its approach to real estate sales and marketing and is a much more agent-driven. They are selective in whom they hire, so are very receptive to new ideas when presented by their agents. They will assist me in every possible way to ensure that I continue to provide excellent service to my customers. The move also provides an opportunity to utilize my marketing skill set in a different way. While Corcoran has successfully saturated the Brooklyn market, Compass is a relatively new player. I will help introduce this new brand to Brooklyn, my home for the past 16 years, and doing so is a new challenge I welcome.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Myrtle East of Washington: The New "Center" of Clinton Hill?
More New Buildings Planned on Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill
The lots shown in orange have new buildings either planned, with permits filed, or are currently under construction.
Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill is seeing quite a number of new buildings proposed for sites that were once parking lots or home to one-story buildings. As of today, there are five buildings either under construction or with permits filed with city’s Department of Buildings. All of these private construction projects will be underway at the same time as the city-funded Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza is under construction, which broke ground this fall. Below is a summary of where all the new buildings are rising:
523-525 Myrtle Avenue
525 Myrtle Avenue: The former site of Myrtle Car (which can now be found just around the corner in the rear storefront of 519 Myrtle Avenue, facing Grand Avenue) will be transformed from a parking lot to a seven-story mixed-use building. The proposed plans, which have yet to be approved by the DOB, call for a mixed-use building that has 22 residential units, sitting above 2,100 square feet of commercial space. An additional 500 square feet of community facilities space is also proposed.
533 Myrtle Avenue: As previously reported, this corner site that housed White Castle (which closed its doors on 11/25/2014), will see a five-story mixed use building. The plans filed back in May 2014 by architect Karl Fischer, called for 6,000 square feet of ground floor retail, with 27 residential units above. However, a new developer, Greystone & Co., has taken over the project and said that the architect has been replaced, with new building plans not yet submitted. According to The J Companies, the development’s construction managing firm, demolition will begin shortly after New Year with construction beginning in the spring of 2015.
501 Myrtle Avenue, corner of Ryerson Street
501 Myrtle Avenue: This corner property, at Myrtle Avenue and Ryerson Street, is currently home to the one-story Sapolo Restaurant. Plans filed last week with the DOB call for a five-story addition. The additional floors will house 11 residential units, with 1,700 square feet of commercial space remaining on the ground floor. These plans have only been pre-filed with the city and have not yet been approved.
504 Myrtle Avenue: A new building will replace the one-story commercial building that housed the former Pratt Station Post Office, according to building plans filed in late November. Plans called for a six-story building, with 141 residential units, 115 parking spaces and 20,000 square feet of ground floor retail. However, according to Madison Realty Capital, the building plans may change and include a larger number of units that could be added through the city’s inclusionary housing bonus which would set aside a portion of the apartments at “affordable” rents.
490 Myrtle Avenue, corner of Hall Street.
490 Myrtle Avenue: Construction is almost finished at the topped-out seven-story building on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Hall Street. The building will have 93 residential units, with 19,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space. The ground floor will house the returning Associated Supermarket and a new TD Bank branch.
Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza: The 25,000 square feet of new pedestrian space on the south side of Myrtle Avenue between Grand Avenue and Emerson Place is under construction. Click here to read all about this $6 million project and the planned construction schedule.
Newest Renderings of BAM South (286 Ashland Place)
Personally, I love this building and I think it provides much-needed architectural integrity to the burgeoning landscape of ugly, uninteresting glass and steel towers sprouting elsewhere in Ft. Greene and Downtown Brooklyn. I especially admire how the modern Enrique Norten and Ten Architectos-designed building is juxta-positioned next to the classic design of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower (now One Hanson Place Condos), and how the massing of the structure seems intent to obscure the iconic presence of this Brooklyn icon as little as possible.
While the building’s impact on the skyline will be significant, the plans for substantial green, public space and enormous, elevated set-backs permitting pedestrian traffic. Ashland Ave. is very heavily trafficked at the moment with those traveling to or from Barclays or BAM. It will provide a nice, more attractive alternative for them, and one less noisy than for the residents at One Hanson. The first glimpse at the landscaping is also promising, with flowerbeds and grasses not unlike arrangements along The High Line.
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