A special GL Correspondent took note of the amount of work that’s been going on at the former prayer book factory on Third Street in Gowanus that is being converted into a mixed use project incuding a boutique hotel that could actually become one of the more interesting properties in Brooklyn. The official address is 92 Third Street and permits were issued for some interior work back in March. More recently an application to divide the property into different tax lots was denied. Per Brownstoner back in June, the developer said h e was thinking about a mixed-use project “and his development will probably incorporate office space, art and production studios, and a hotel that overlooks the building’s courtyard.” Amusingly, he said: “We’re talking about building a much more aesthetically engaged hotel than these Sam Chang properties.”
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1 Joseph // Nov 25, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I thought the whole building was going condo. Good job on the mixed use space, Jane Jacobs would be proud…
2 ruth // Nov 29, 2008 at 9:26 pm
If it were not for all the speculation for condo-rezoning, much more of this would have already been going on in Gowanus.
It is Toll, and the like, that killed all the contextual redevelopment that the Gowanus was soprime for over the past ten years. And what will we be getting instead–12 story condo jobs!