Many of Bushwick’s little townhouses have expansion potential, thanks to the neighborhood’s relatively generous zoning. One two-story brick rowhouse at 352 Weirfield Street is about to gain two more floors, and YIMBY has a rendering for the project.
Property owner Moshe Friedman, doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, eight-unit residential building at 114 Jefferson Street, in western Bushwick. It will measure 5,966 square feet and its residential units should average 682 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. There will be two units per floor, although one of the ground-floor apartments will contain space in the cellar, and one of the top-floor apartments will feature space in an upper mezzanine level. Boaz Golani’s Brooklyn-based Beam Group is the architect of record. The 25-foot-wide, 2,500-square-foot property is currently occupied by a three-story townhouse. Demolition permits haven’t been filed. The Myrtle Avenue stop on the J, M, and Z trains is located three blocks away.
David Lefkowitz, doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, eight-unit residential building at 103 Vanderveer Street, in eastern Bushwick. The structure will measure 5,492 square feet and its residential units should average 686.5 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. Ronald B. Cagan’s Brooklyn-based Spiral Group is the architect of record. The 25-foot-wide, 2,500-square-foot property is currently occupied by a two-story house. Demolition permits were filed in May. The Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street stop on the L train is two blocks away.
Herman Weiser, doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, eight-unit mixed-use building at 481 Central Avenue, in the heart of Bushwick. The structure will measure 10,281 square feet. The ground floor will host 2,000 square feet of office space for a community facility and the lower portion of a duplex residential unit. The apartments should average 686 square feet apiece, indicative of rentals. Shawn E. Stiles’s New Jersey-based S&S Architectural Design is the architect of record. The 25-foot-wide, 2,498-square-foot property, located on the corner of Jefferson Avenue, is currently vacant. The Halsey Street Station on the J train is four blocks away.
Property owner Bushwack Capital is currently redeveloping the two-story, 16,600-square-foot former industrial building at 599 Johnson Avenue, in western Bushwick, into a 26,000-square-foot mixed-use commercial property. The Williamsburg-based club Glasslands Gallery is expected to lease a roughly 24,000-square-foot venue, dubbed Elsewhere, for events on the ground floor, Commercial Observer reported. Another 2,300-square-foot space on the ground floor is intended for a restaurant, and 2,250 square feet on the second floor will be utilized as commercial-office space geared towards the arts. Chelsea-based Kossar + Garry Architects is the architect of record and Greco Construction Development is the general contractor. Completion is expected this fall. Bushwack acquired the property for $4.45 million in February of 2015, and a few months after, YIMBY reported on applications for the conversion project.
