Michael Pintchik Plans to Bring “Artisanal, Unique Tenants” to Flatbush Avenue
Michael Pintchik, the owner of Pintchik Hardware at 478 Bergen Street in Park Slope, has big designs for the neighborhood. While Pintchik’s family owned 13 paint stores across the city for over 100 years, he has pared down to just one shop but also owns approximately 60 low-rise, mixed-use buildings along Flatbush Avenue from the Barclays Center down to Grand Army Plaza. Pintchik recently signed about a dozen leases for a slew of new restaurants and retail stores in the area.
In a recent article in The Commercial Observer, Pintchik says his plan is to have “artisanal, unique tenants…. We feel a certain responsibility, because we have almost contiguous blocks of buildings. Because we can shape things, we have been really careful.”
One of these new tenants will be Kings Town, a new sports bar/gastro pub set to open in April at 166 Flatbush. The venue will feature a 5,000-square-foot rooftop bar that will surely draw in crowds before and after events from the adjacent Barclays Center. The building will also house a 3,700-square-foot sushi/izakaya bar in the lower level.
According to the article, Pintchik attempted to lure Apple into the 166 Flatbush space years before the tech giant opened a shop in Williamsburg and more recently announced plans to open a second post nearby at 300 Ashland Place.
Some other new eateries coming to the area will include Ovenly, a bakery at 210 Flatbush; mokbar, a Korean ramen restaurant at 212 Flatbush; Snowdays, a shaved (ice) cream shop at 214 Flatbush; and Friedman’s, a gluten-free-friendly restaurant just off Flatbush at 474 Bergen Street.
Pintchik isn’t just bringing in restaurants—he’s also signed a deal with the upscale grocery store Union Market for his building at 342 Flatbush, and a new SoulCycle spin studio will move in right above it. The fitness center, Orange Theory, will open at 248 Flatbush Avenue.
Three 2-story buildings located on Flatbush between St. Marks Avenue and Prospect Place will be demolished to make way for an 8-story, mixed-use building that Pintchik hopes will be anchored by a “home goods retailer, such as West Elm or Home Depot.”
Even with all this development, Pintchik hasn’t forgotten about his family business—he is renovating and moving the namesake paint and hardware shop one door down to a new and improved storefront.