In a post this past September I speculated about the future of 186 Remsen Street (photo, by C. Scales), which I have long liked as an example of Victorian Romanesque architecture. In the post I noted that the building had been acquired by Up Ventures LLC, who had filed plans for a fourteen story hotel […]
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New Life for 186 Remsen? Bye-bye 192 Montague?
By Claude Scales on January 6, 2019 10:23 pm in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Development, News, Real Estate
Is 186 Remsen Doomed to the Wrecking Ball?
By Claude Scales on September 16, 2018 10:54 pm in 11201, Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Development, Real Estate
I wish I could have gotten a better photo of what I consider to be a magnificent building, but the lighting and shadows were against me, as was a bit of sidewalk shed protecting pedestrians from falling debris generated by renovation work on the building at the corner of Court and Remsen. “Magnificent?” I know […]
Plan for Brooklyn’s First “Supertall” Revealed
By Claude Scales on November 9, 2015 11:25 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Development, Downtown Brooklyn, Neighborhoods, News, Real Estate
This past August we noted a Crain’s piece that said developers had acquired the landmarked Dime Savings Bank building and an adjacent lot, and that, using air rights from the landmarked building, they could build something as tall as the Empire State Building on the lot, the address of which will be 340 Flatbush Avenue […]
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