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Are the condos in PH/Northwest CH selling??? — Brooklynian

Are the condos in PH/Northwest CH selling???

cool the kid
cool the kid
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
I moved to the nabe in January '07...

The condos on St Marks + Washington/Grand have not been occupied.

There are a few other condos in the nabe I can't recall the exact location of that are also seemingly fully built, but not yet occupied.

What's the deal?

My GF lives in Greenpoint and she lives across the street from a brand new condo building... they are starting to rent out the apartments.

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  • jaha127
    jaha127
    thats a good question... I was wondering the same thing. On my block alone there are like 2 huge construction sites with i assume will be condos or co-ops or something like that...
  • jaha127
    jaha127
    thats a good question... I was wondering the same thing. On my block alone there are like 2 huge construction sites with i assume will be condos or co-ops or something like that...
  • ltjbukem
    ltjbukem
    yes, the washington has at least 30 units occupied out of 36 or so..

    check my .sig
  • obamanut
    obamanut
    Of course they are selling, what kind of question is that.

    The sole driving force behind any gentri-condo sales is the trendiness of the area, and there is still plenty of that to go around in PH/CH... it's only going to get worse from here.
  • fjord
    fjord
    The condos on St Marks + Washington/Grand have not been occupied.
    Wrong. I can see furniture and people on the balconies every night from my place.
  • raulism
    raulism
    There's a condo on the corner of Flatbush & Park, just on the other side of the tracks (hey, some of my best friends live in Park Slope). It's been there for a couple years now, and most of the apartments on the Flatbush side are empty, though I heard that apartments on the faux-brownstone side of the building are full. Apparently, there was some issue with the windows.

    So it not only depends on the building, but it can even depend on which side of the building.
  • moominpapa
    moominpapa
    Obamanut wrote:
    The sole driving force behind any gentri-condo sales is the trendiness of the area, and there is still plenty of that to go around in PH/CH... it's only going to get worse from here.
    Interesting. I keep hearing talk about the evils of gentrification, so maybe a definition of terms is in order, here.

    What do you mean by gentrification? More restaurants? Overpriced condos? Shops with stuff you (and I) can't afford?

    Sometimes, when I step over the broken glass that litters the stairs inside my apartment building (having come to the conclusion that sweeping is a Sisyphean task), when I walk around the old grocery carts filled with cans and bottles in plastic bags that somebody has padlocked to a twisted chain link fence on my block, when I see the graffiti scrawled across the wall announcing "Blood UP!", when I see the trash and the filth that litters the streets and the dogshit and the abandoned yards overgrown with weeds, sometimes I pray for some gentrification. A little money to come in and make the streets a little nicer, a little cleaner, a little safer. Because the current residents are doing just a bang-up job, let me tell you.

    So maybe we should agree what gentrification means. I don't want to get priced out of a place I can barely afford as it is, but I sure would like to have some development in my neighborhood. Sometimes I think that people have difficulty distinguishing between the two, but I happen to think the distinction is pretty crucial.
  • daver
    daver
    moominpapa wrote: So maybe we should agree what gentrification means. I don't want to get priced out of a place I can barely afford as it is, but I sure would like to have some development in my neighborhood. Sometimes I think that people have difficulty distinguishing between the two, but I happen to think the distinction is pretty crucial.
    Wikipedia covers it pretty good and in depth. In a nutshell, there are two sides to the coin.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
    Gentrification, or urban gentrification, encompasses a number of processes of change in demographics, land uses and building conditions in an area, accompanied by rapid increase in a neighborhood's property prices and influx of investment and physical remodelling and renovation. In many cases, the lower-income residents who originally lived in the neighborhood have to move out of the neighborhood because they can no longer afford to live there.
  • moominpapa
    moominpapa
    Yeah, I don't want that. Is there another option? I'd like more businesses, better buildings, safer streets, more restaurants, etc.

    Walking with the lady through her neighborhood, I notice my favorite restaurant has been turned into a restaurant/bar and the prices have all been doubled. She jokes, "We're white! Isn't gentrification supposed to work in our favor?"

    Basically, I'd like gentrification to work in my favor (ducks to avoid imminent flames). I am, you might imagine, a little conflicted.
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