that god damned ugly glass building on Flatbush ave.

keeps getting bigger and uglier.

i hate architects.

hey, my father-in-law's an architect! and a damn good one too! wouldn't be caught dead giving praise to that building....

http://parkplacebrooklyn.com/

It could be a lot worse. Though I hear this is an example of Magic Johnson helping out distressed inner city neighborhoods.....

raulism wrote: http://parkplacebrooklyn.com/

It could be a lot worse. Though I hear this is an example of Magic Johnson helping out distressed inner city neighborhoods.....

i don't know if that area exactly qualifies as 'distressed' at this point.
considering how expensive it is to live there.

I hope you are kidding or wrong, if someone wanted to help out a neighborhood i can think of five right off the top of my head that need it a lot more than the parkslope / heights border area.

it seems they are able to build non horrifying buildings (their park place building at least fits in with the look of the area). although chose the glass monstrosity for flatbush ave.

whats even sadder is the huuuuuuuuuge glass ones on Houston St and the other on Astor place.

Ugh!

outeraccelerator wrote:
whats even sadder is the huuuuuuuuuge glass ones on Houston St and the other on Astor place.

Ugh!

I saw that place a few weeks ago and thought 'well THAT thing wasnt there last time I was around here...' very odd.
The Washington is pretty wierd too.

outeraccelerator wrote: [quote=raulism]http://parkplacebrooklyn.com/

Though I hear this is an example of Magic Johnson helping out distressed inner city neighborhoods.....

i don't know if that area exactly qualifies as 'distressed' at this point.
considering how expensive it is to live there.

I hope you are kidding or wrong, if someone wanted to help out a neighborhood i can think of five right off the top of my head that need it a lot more than the parkslope / heights border area.

I don't know for sure if Magic Johnson is behind the Flatbush & Park development, but I wouldn't be surprised. Does anyone here know? He is part of the new ownership structure of the Williamsburg Savings Bank. In any case, here's a link to his website:

http://www.johnsondevelopmentcorp.com/.

johnsondevelopmentcorp.com wrote: Rather than follow the trend set by many retail businesses and service providers that dismiss urban communities as economic wastelands, Mr. Earvin "Magic" Johnson regards them as renewed frontiers to introduce viable business enterprises and realize solid financial success.

For over two decades many of the nation's urban cities have suffered economic hardship because important business, such as supermarkets and movie theatres, relocated operations to rapidly emerging and expanding suburban communities. This circumstance forced urban consumers to travel miles for quality shopping options and diverse entertainment outlets.

raulism wrote: I don't know for sure if Magic Johnson is behind the Flatbush & Park development, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Magic Johnson is in fact behind the Flatbush Avenue & Park Place development. Actually, the funding is coming from the Canyon Johnson Fund in California.

About a year or so ago I did some work for the local developer and the contractor (a different contractor than is on the project now) on the project. I was supposed to be paid by the local developer, and he totally bailed out on a very large invoice (for me at least). Luckily, I have a friend who is a real estate attorney who had an associate in his office with connections to the Canyon Johnson Fund in LA. He was able to intervene for me and I ultimately got my money. Otherwise I would have been in very serious trouble. It was bad ... very bad ... for me at least ... it was very upsetting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Prospect Heights area doesn't seem "underserved" in the least. Unless by underserved they mean not quite enough developments to keep pace with the rest of the happening places in the city.