Candor Capital files plans for 99 units in Prospect Lefferts Gardens on lot long-owned by church

Charles Wurzberger, president of Candor Capital, submitted a new building construction project for a 99-unit, 97,877-square-foot residential (R-2) building at 331 Maple Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. The plan was filed with the New York City Department of Buildings on August 19, 2025 under job number B01271705. It calls for the construction of a 12-story, 119-foot-tall building. The project is described in the filing as: Proposing a twelve-story residential building with 99 dwelling units.
The development is planned for the southeast portion of what is now tax lot 1 of block 4791, but a new lot, 70, will be created for this parcel.

City property records do not yet reflect a change in ownership either by a sale or ground lease, from the long-time owner, the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Blaise. The new building is on a portion of the property occupied by the original St. Francis of Assisi School building, with an address of 335 Maple Street. That building, now the parish center, will be demolished to make way for the new structure. The school, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy, will not be impacted since it moved to a much larger building at 400 Lincoln Road decades ago.

ZD1 DOB Zoning Diagram_331 Maple Street

The property

The property in Prospect Lefferts Gardens has 22,400 square feet of built space and 122,180 square feet of additional air rights for a total buildable of 144,828 square feet according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The parcel has three buildings with frontage of 205 feet and is 320 feet deep with a total lot size of 59,600 square feet. The lot is irregular. The zoning is R6 which allows for up to 2.43 times floor area ratio (FAR) for residential. The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $5.1 million.

Violations and lawsuits

According to city public data, the property has received one DOB violation in the last year.

There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the property for the past 24 months.

The neighborhood

In Prospect Lefferts Gardens, The majority, or 55 percent of the 11.1 million square feet of commercial built space are elevator buildings, with walkup buildings next occupying 24 percent of the space. In sales, Prospect Lefferts Gardens has near average sales volume among other neighborhoods with $108.6 million in sales volume in the last two years and is the 34th highest in Brooklyn. For development, Prospect Lefferts Gardens has near average amount of major developments among other neighborhoods and is the 39th highest in Brooklyn. It had 149,977 square feet of commercial and multi-family construction under development in the last two years, which represents 1 percent of the neighborhood’s built space.

The block

On this tax block, PincusCo has identified the owners of one of the five commercial properties representing zero square feet of the 66,145 square feet. The identified owner is Roman Catholic Church. There are no active new building construction projects on this tax block.

The surrounding

Within a 400-foot radius of 380 Lincoln Road, PincusCo identified two commercial real estate items of interests occurred over the past 24 months. One of those two items was a sale which BRP Companies, Fairstead, and Urbane bought the 139,710-square-foot, two-unit two-family building (B1) on 334 Lefferts Avenue and 153 other properties for $23.3 million from New York City Housing Authority on December 14, 2023. One of those two items was a loan which BRP Companies, Fairstead, and Urbane borrowed $631.5 million from Merchants Capital and NYC Housing Development Corporation secured by the 139,710-square-foot, two-unit two-family building (B1) on 334 Lefferts Avenue and 153 other properties on December 14, 2023.

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