220 Riverside Breaks Ground: A New Day For Brooklyn?

[edjax]

Wow. If so. Little building and lots and lots of surface parking. 

[ProjectMaximus]

Cool! So is it related to the other projects or something new?

It's always been a part of the overall plan. But yes, still a positive if they move on it sooner rather than later.

[ProjectMaximus]

^ west of the pond across Magnolia Street.  I believe it will be a new product type aimed at millenials.

So, the space shown across the street in this plan?

Interesting...out of curiosity, what is supposed to happen to the east of the 220 Riverside apartments. Isn't there a vacant space buffering it and the Shoppes on Riverside parcel? I had thought the hotel might go there.

[brainstormer]

I can picture something like an Aloft hotel being built in that location.  There really aren't any hotels in the Riverside area that I can think of.  If I had a single bedroom apartment in 220 Riverside and my parents came to visit, that is where I would have them stay.

As for the empty parcel fronting Riverside Avenue...I foresee a much taller residential/office mixed use development within a few years.  With the excitement to move to that area, and all of the great retail that is proposed, it is going to be a prime location for something larger.

[icarus]

& maybe a people mover station ...

[tufsu1]

^ west of the pond across Magnolia Street.  I believe it will be a new product type aimed at millenials.

So, the space shown across the street in this plan?

yes

[ben says]

I can picture something like an Aloft hotel being built in that location.  There really aren't any hotels in the Riverside area that I can think of.  If I had a single bedroom apartment in 220 Riverside and my parents came to visit, that is where I would have them stay.

As for the empty parcel fronting Riverside Avenue...I foresee a much taller residential/office mixed use development within a few years.  With the excitement to move to that area, and all of the great retail that is proposed, it is going to be a prime location for something larger.

Aloft makes the most sense, but there are already 2 in Jax (both w/ extreme construction issues).

[tufsu1]

Aloft is the same model, and is part of the Starwood portfolio.  It also might be something like Even or Hotel Indigo (IHG properties).


http://www.ihg.com/evenhotels/hotels/us/en/reservation?scmisc=header_6c

[mtraininjax]

Yeah, they had to basically rebuild the Aloft on Southside after shoddy construction. Not the best record in Jax.

[BoldBoyOfTheSouth]

It's a good way to begin linking Riverside with downtown.

Just wish they would have more street level retail.

[BoldBoyOfTheSouth]

Where is the street/sidewalk level retail?

[tufsu1]

on the first floor of the building facing Unity Plaza

[edjax]

yes the commecial hotel is coming to brooklyn and u wil get more news on this nextweek

Is it next week yet?  Or did I fall asleep for a couple of months?  Anything on the hotel yet or perhaps I missed it. 

[simms3]

A building like 220 Riverside just caught fire and burned to the ground, nearly taking other new buildings around it with it, here in SF this past week.

5 alarm fire, $227M project with 320 units (pay no attention to price as it is way more expensive to build out here), Type III construction with concrete bottom two floors and wood top five, braced by steel I-beams (standard EQ construction for large new multifamily low rises such as this).


http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/12/ucsf-mission-bay-construction-worker-watches-work-go-up-in-flames/

http://www.youtube.com/v/q2h8oDanxkc?version=3&amp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q2h8oDanxkc

The cause may have been a welding accident.  Anyway, I hope nothing like that happens to 220 riverside or any other wood frame buildings going up in area.

[billy]

I think this happened to the apartments on Ponce next to Krispy Kreme in Atlanta several years ago.