Last week, YIMBY brought you the rendering for 1325 Herkimer Street, an Issac and Stern-designed apartment building in Bed-Stuy. Now we’ve got the first look at 641 Dekalb Avenue, another Bed-Stuy residential project from the same architect and developer.
641 Dekalb will rise five stories on a vacant lot located across the street from Kosciuszko Pool between Nostrand and Marcy Avenues. Its eight apartments will spread across 5,515 square feet, for an average, rental-sized unit of just 689 square feet. The first and fifth floors will have just one apartment a piece, and there will be two units each on the second through fourth floors.
The 18-foot wide by 100-foot deep lot last changed hands for $100,000 in 2013, or just $17 per buildable square foot. It occupies part of a much larger vacant property, the rest of which is owned by the city. The developer is Briarwood-based Guy Iber, who could be planning to acquire the remaining empty lots next door. But for now, HPD still owns 633-639 Dekalb Avenue, and no building permits have been filed for those sites.
Issac and Stern first filed plans for this project back in August, and the Department of Buildings approved permits earlier this month.
The design is simple and fairly unobtrusive, with a brick and white facade that will mesh well with mostly new construction block.
The development will sit down the block from Marcy Library and Home Depot, and just two and a half blocks from the Bedford-Nostrand G train stop.
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