Myrtle Avenue Continues To See A Building Boom
The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (MABP) today released a list of five buildings that are currently under-construction or seeking approval from the Buildings Department (DOB) to build along the four-block stretch between Hall Street and Emerson Place.
The current sites range from parking lots to one-story structures that, if approved for redevelopment, would bring a mix of housing and retail to the area.
The construction boom also comes on the heels of the city breaking ground on the $6 million, 25,000-square-foot Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza between Grand Avenue and Emerson Place, on Myrtle’s southern side.
Per MABP:
490 Myrtle Avenue: Construction is almost finished at the topped-out seven-story building on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Hall Street. The building will have 93 residential units, with 19,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space. The ground floor will house the returning Associated Supermarket and a new TD Bank branch.
501 Myrtle Avenue: This corner property, at Myrtle Avenue and Ryerson Street, is currently home to the one-story Sapolo Restaurant. Plans filed last week with the DOB call for a five-story addition. The additional floors will house 11 residential units, with 1,700 square feet of commercial space remaining on the ground floor. These plans have only been pre-filed with the city and have not yet been approved.
504 Myrtle Avenue: A new building will replace the one-story commercial building that housed the former Pratt Station Post Office, according to building plans filed in late November. Plans called for a six-story building, with 141 residential units, 115 parking spaces and 20,000 square feet of ground floor retail. However, according to Madison Realty Capital, the building plans may change and include a larger number of units that could be added through the city’s inclusionary housing bonus which would set aside a portion of the apartments at “affordable” rents.
525 Myrtle Avenue: The former site of Myrtle Car (which can now be found just around the corner in the rear storefront of 519 Myrtle Avenue, facing Grand Avenue) will be transformed from a parking lot to a seven-story mixed-use building. The proposed plans, which have yet to be approved by the DOB, call for a mixed-use building that has 22 residential units, sitting above 2,100 square feet of commercial space. An additional 500 square feet of community facilities space is also proposed.
533 Myrtle Avenue: As previously reported, this corner site that housed White Castle (which closed its doors on 11/25/2014), will see a five-story mixed use building. The plans filed back in May 2014 by architect Karl Fischer, called for 6,000 square feet of ground floor retail, with 27 residential units above. However, a new developer, Greystone & Co., has taken over the project and said that the architect has been replaced, with new building plans not yet submitted. According to The J Companies, the development’s construction managing firm, demolition will begin shortly after New Year with construction beginning in the spring of 2015.