Construction is finally underway at a long-stalled development site at 1 Sullivan Place in Crown Heights, and we’ve got a rendering for the eight-story building rising on the corner of Washington Avenue, next to Prospect Park.
The development will reach 79 feet into the air on a fairly quiet block wedged between the shuttle tracks and Franklin Avenue, just north of Empire Boulevard, which marks the border between Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens. It will have 16 apartments and a 532-square-foot medical office on the first floor.
Each floor will hold two units, and if the rendering is accurate, every apartment will come with a private balcony. Residents will also have access to a shared roof deck, storage, and bike parking in the cellar. There won’t be any parking for cars, because the zoning code doesn’t require any on small lots like this one.
The facade will have a pretty modern look, incorporating a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and strips of greenery along the corner and the base of the building.
With 20,020 square feet of residential space, average units will measure just over 1,250 square feet. Condos seem likely, and 1 Sullivan will probably be the first new condo project to finish south of Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. If a developer buys the former Brooklyn Botanic Garden site at 111 Montgomery Street, more condos could follow only a block north.
Workshop DA, headquartered in Gowanus, is designing the project, and Sterling Town Equities is the developer. The Clinton Hill-based firm picked up the 3,400-square-foot lot for $2.5 million last year. They filed their first round of plans a few months later, and then put the site on the market for twice what they paid.
And this isn’t Sterling Town’s only project in the neighborhood. The builder is also developing condos on a vacant lot at 529 Park Place, right near the Prospect Heights border.
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This is actually just across the street from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NOT from Prospect Park, as you can see from the blue BBG banner on the fence at extreme left. However, the views of greenery will be unimpeded.