162 South Portland Avenue Owner Seeks To Expand From Townhouse To Six-Story Condo

Five full-floor condo units and a duplex apartment are coming to 162 South Portland Avenue — a two-story, three-unit building that will become a six-story building if applications are approved for the planned project. However, this is no big-developer-led expansion; existing owner Maria Villafane is the one proposing the expansion.

As first reported by New York YIMBY, the 19th century townhouse sits behind the Atlantic Center Mall and is slated to bring on PACS Architecture for the design.

Five apartments would be spread across 6,891 square feet of residential space, for relatively spacious units averaging nearly 1,400 square feet. A duplex would occupy the basement and first floor, and the rest of the apartments would be full-floor units. Based on the rendering, the fourth and fifth floor units will get their own private balconies.

The building would have an elevator, and the project is small enough that zoning doesn’t require any parking. And residents won’t really need cars, since they’ll be able to catch most of the subway lines in Brooklyn only a block away at Atlantic Avenue.

The development will be taller than its neighbors, but it makes an effort to fit in with the historic homes on either side. The brick will blend in nicely, and the lighter facade panels on the ground floor try to match the garden floors of the old townhouses.

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