902 Franklin Avenue

902 Franklin Avenue, photo by Tectonic

Crown Heights Laundry at 902 Franklin Avenue Nearly Demolished for Four-Building Residential Project

It’s been a year and a half since Cornell Realty filed plans for a massive four-building, 208-unit development at 902 Franklin Avenue in southern Crown Heights. Now, Cornell has nearly finished demolishing the series of squat industrial buildings on the site between Crown and Montgomery streets, which used to be a commercial laundry business.

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608 Franklin Avenue, rendering by ODA Architecture

Tracking Large Developments and Affordable Housing in Crown Heights

Crown Heights has some of the fastest rising rents in all of Brooklyn. It’s gentrifying at a rate that merited two New York Times real estate section features in the last year, neither of which could resist mentioning riots that occurred 24 years ago. At the same time, new development is sweeping across the area, concentrated at the western edge between Washington and Nostrand Avenues.

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