Last fall, Chinese developer Cheerland Investments paid a whopping $129 million for the United Charities office building at 287 Park Avenue South, a nine-story Renaissance Revival structure built in 1892. An insider told the Wall Street Journal that it would be converted to condos, and earlier this week, permits were filed for a residential conversion that would add nine stories to the top.
One of the last undeveloped properties along Smith Street in Boerum Hill will likely become condos. New building applications were filed yesterday for a four-story apartment building with ground floor retail at 275 Pacific Street, on the corner of Smith.
Windows are going in at Adam America’s 247 North 7th Street rental project in Williamsburg, where YIMBY found this rendering on the fence.
Two four-story apartment buildings will replace vinyl-clad wood frames at 1135-1137 St Marks Avenue, between Schenectady and Utica Avenues in eastern Crown Heights.
Developer Slate Property Group is moving forward with plans to close and demolish a Key Food at 325 Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill, and YIMBY has the first look at the new development that will replace the grocery store.
