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The buildings predate Ebbets Field Stadium, which predate Ebbets Field Apartments....
Most of the buildings are gone, but the one in use by the Spice company remains.
Crown Height's Consumers Park Brewery on Franklin Ave.In 1908, when Charley Ebbets was looking around Brooklyn for a place to build his ballpark, he decided on an obscure part of town near Prospect Park that lay in between the neighborhoods of Flatbush and the St. Marks District. It was called Crow Hill, and was undeveloped, an ash dump, actually, with little going on except for a couple of rambling industrial complexes. One of these industrial groups was the Flatbush Hygeia Ice Company, at 984 Franklin Avenue, and the other was home to the Consumers Park Brewery; a complex of buildings that made the beverage that helped make Brooklyn: lager beer. For Charles Ebbets this was perfect, for what goes better than baseball and ice cold beer.
946 - 978 Franklin
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I can still smell the spices when I walk by.
Also, the name of the nearby apartment complex is Ebbets Field Apartments, not Houses. :sunny:
I fixed the name of the complex.
I do find it wierd how much unused land there is around the Spice building.
Assuming it is zoned residential, I suspect we will get some more neighbors.
There also used to be a BRT Consumer Park stop on what is now the Franklin Ave. Shuttle; that stop was later replaced by the Botanic Garden stop. The 1918 Malbone Street disaster was between the Consumer Park and Prospect Park stops.
I believe the Malbone Street wreck was right under Empire Boulevard. The street's name was changed from Malbone Street to Empire Boulevard because of the incident. (There is a stub of Malbone Street near the 71st Precinct.)
I see from the old map posted above that there was a street that ran through what is now part of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I wonder what used to be there.
A "tick. tick, tick" that ends in the spices being moved to ENY and the site being converted into condos, and a lot of construction on the surrounding vacant lots.
That is huge, but not surprising news. One of the sites with paid staff (Curbed, Brownstoner, Real Deal, etc) will likely break the news of who bought it sometime soon.
I am interested in whether the new owner bought the whole business, or just the buildings and the land.
If they just bought the B and L, I assume a lease was written to allow the business time to move.
If they bought the whole business, the operation could be closed, the employees left without jobs, and customers with one less spice supplier.
718-284-3505, http://www.golombeckspice.com/php/contact.php
Lev stated that at present, the business has not been sold and that there are no plans for it to close and/or relocate.
He is willing to meet with me to give me the history of the building, but is not able/willing to meet with us on a weekend to tour the facility.
http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/45201/ms-whynot-and-whynot-design-the-2015-walking-tour-#Item_21
Those who like the smell of spices in the air should be happy to read this.
In other words, prices in this area haven't gone up enough yet to justify a sale. Once the four building complex is built on the site of the old Laundromat a block away I have a feeling that they'll reconsider that position. As much as I enjoy being able to smell those spices in the air when I walk by, I'm skeptical that it will still be used for its present purposes five years from now.
I have kept it on my list of Big 16 Developments for those reasons.
http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/44634/links-to-the-big-16-developments-in-western-crown-heights/p1
http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/45410/a-walking-tour-change-in-sw-crown-heights-will-be-held-saturday-may-2nd-at-2-pm/p1