Empty lots are slowly disappearing in western Crown Heights, as developers snap them up for condo-worthy prices. One of these builders has filed plans to erect a five-story, eight-unit apartment building on the vacant plot at 529 Park Place, between Grand and Classon Avenues.
Those eight apartments would be spread across 8,801 square feet of residential space, for a spacious average unit of 1,100 square feet. Just like two of the buildings under construction a few blocks north on Bergen Street, these will probably be condos.
The first two floors will each have one half floor-unit, and a duplex will be split between them. The third and fourth stories will have two units each, topped by a single penthouse on the fifth floor.
The 50-foot-tall building will fill a 3,000-square-foot swath that was once home to two apartment buildings. But the former owner neglected the buildings and slid into foreclosure, and the city demolished both structures in 2008.
Issac and Stern will design the project, and the developer is Sterling Town Equities, headquartered on Fulton Street in Clinton Hill.
Sterling Town picked up the two lots for a combined $2,360,000 in May, shelling out roughly $262 per buildable square foot. One of the 1,500-square-foot properties last changed hands for $700,000 in November 2013, and its individual sale price in May was $1,130,000—60% higher than it had been less than two years before.
Development plans have been in the works for 529 Park Place since the spring of 2014, when the previous owners filed new building applications for a four-story building with ground floor commercial space. Zoning here allows retail, but Sterling Town decided not to include it.
In the last month alone, YIMBY has noticed five small infill projects planned for vacant lots throughout Crown Heights, including 953 Pacific Street, 906 Prospect Place, and 876 Bergen Street.
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