Longtime readers may recall that the former building at 816 Washington was completely destroyed by fire:
http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/33475/look-up-in-the-air-update-washingtonst-johns-fire/p1 After years of court processes re: whether the landlord was guilty of arson and (if he was) whether he should have to build rent stabilized housing to replace the rent stabilized housing that burned down, I am pleased to report that we are suddenly getting a construction fence, as opposed to merely a perimeter fence with murals.
The light colored posts showed up yesterday.


No new renderings have been filed with DOB, so I believe we will be getting a building that complies with the plans submitted several years ago.
Rendering:

I have no word on whether it will be market or subsidized.
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3:1 Duane Reade
4:1 Some bank
5:1 Starbucks
10:1 Chipotle
20:1 T Mobile
The building at the SE corner is opting out of Section 8: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/44907/781-washington-goes-market-rate#Item_1
The row of stores on the NE corner are for sale, and re-inventing themselves: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/38068/video-store-on-washington-ave/p1
The building at the NW corner has been essentially gutted and will soon feature an upscale, sit down restaurant: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/38020/will-810-washington-ever-become-anything/p1
We might have as long as two years before this building is complete, so I can't even guess what we will get. Talk to me in Spring 2016.
Given the turnover in that large building at the corner of Washington and St. Johns, I imagine that the gentrification tide is preparing to wash over those few blocks in the next several years.
Until recently, businesses in the immediate area had the optioon of not improving because the area provided a sufficient number of people of very limited means.
Some of these residents live(d) at 781 Washington:
http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/44907/781-washington-goes-market-rate#Item_1
However, as this building is renovated and becomes vacant, the local businesses are feeling the pinch.
Additional residents live in the apartments above Coffee Bites, as part of a program operated by ICL:
http://www.iclinc.net/search-results/mica-scattersite-supported-housing/
To be admitted to the program, one must be single, poor, unemployed and dually diagnosed with a substance abuse and psychiatric disorder.
In NYC, this has the effect of the program serving predominantly people of color in their mid-40s to late 60s.
Although the program has been in operation for over a decade, the residents are becoming "increasingly visible" as a result of the area becoming increasingly white and middle class.
While I am not aware of this program being discontinued anytime soon, the participants are losing many of the low cost - low quality options that they rely upon.
...and are sitting ducks for landlords and neighborhood improvement types who would prefer a more profitable and sterile environment.
Building is being built as per prior rendering
Excavator now on site. The hole for the foundation is next.
Longtime residents may recall that the debris from the prior building was pushed into the basement to make the lot level, so somewhere down there is a furnace....