Michael Calabrese files plans for 29-unit residential building in Brooklyn Heights

Michael Calabrese submitted a new building construction project for a 29-unit, 27,776-square-foot residential (R-2) building at 91 Court Street. The plan was filed on September 23, 2022. It calls for the construction of a 91-foot-tall, nine-story building and was filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number B00683718. The architect is Noesis Designs Architecture PLLC. The project is described in the filing as: proposed to erect nine-story quality housing, new building as per plans filed herewith.

The 91 Court Street parcel has frontage of 52 feet and is 98 feet deep with a total lot size of 5,266 square feet. The zoning is C6-2A which allows for up to 6 times floor area ratio (FAR) for commercial and up to 6.02 times FAR for residential with inclusionary housing.

On this tax block, PincusCo has identified the owners of six of the 15 commercial properties representing 59,839 square feet of the 170,698 square feet. The largest owner is Kahen Properties, followed by EcoRise Development and then Gottesman family. On the tax block, there was one new building construction project filed totaling 27,776 square feet. It is a 29-unit, 27,776-square-foot R-2 building developed by Michael Calabrese with plans filed September 23, 2022 and it has not been permitted yet.

Over the past five years, there have been two NYC Department of Buildings permit applications filed for this parcel valued at more than $20,000. There has been one new building permit application Those plans include a total of 29 residential or hotel units. There has been one demolition project filed for the parcels over the past five years. The demolition included 2 residential units.

Within a 400-foot radius of 87 Court Street, Pincusco identified seven commercial real estate items of interests occurred over the past 24 months. Of those seven items, one was in new building development. It was a new building permit application filed on May 13, 2022 for a 38,300-square-foot R-2 building with 58 residential units at 88 Schermerhorn Street. Of those seven items, two were for major renovation including a certificate of occupancy change. They were one permit applications with a total initial cost of $500,000 and one permit with a total initial cost of $375,200. The most recent of these two items was the filing on April 4, 2022 for a 5,828-square-foot R-3 building with one residential units at 25 Schermerhorn Street. One of those seven items was a sale which Anthony LaConte bought the 15,000-square-foot, seven-unit office building (O2) on 81 Court Street for $11.5 million from Investors Bank on November 30, 2020. Of those seven items, three were loans above $5 million totaling $47.1 million. The most recent of the three was Sparky Capital which borrowed $5.1 million from Signature Bank secured by the 12,681-square-foot, three-unit office building (O7) on 100 Livingston Street on August 4, 2022.

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