Demolition has finished at 205 Montague Street, the site of a 47-story residential skyscraper in Brooklyn Heights. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Jonathan Landau of Landau Properties, the 672-foot-tall structure will yield 90 rental apartments and 46 condominium units with an average scope of 2,100 square feet. The $500 million project will also include nearly 40,000 square feet of retail space and a 100-plus vehicle parking garage. The 19,000-square-foot property is located at the northwest corner of Montague Street and Cadman Plaza West.
The former six-story commercial building was fully razed since our last update in April, when crews were assembling scaffolding over the midcentury structure in preparation for the start of demolition. The photos above and below, shared on YIMBY Forums, show the trapezoidal site leveled and being cleared of debris.
205 Montague Street. Photo: YIMBY Forums user JC_Heights
No finalized renderings have been revealed for the project, apart from the following elevation diagrams from the DOB filing. The building will begin with a multistory podium covering the full lot, and the main tower will rise with a rectangular massing. A cutout is visible around the one-quarter mark of the tower, and the slender northern and southern elevations will feature a series of curving balconies that grow larger on the upper stories. The structure will culminate in a multifaceted bulkhead.
205 Montague Street. Designed by Hill West Architects.
205 Montague Street. Designed by Hill West Architects.
The below Google Street View image shows the former occupant before the start of demolition. Prior to this structure, the site was home to a ten-story Italianate building that housed the offices of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Landau Properties acquired the property last December for $140 million and secured a $213 million senior loan along with $100 million in equity from Northwind Group through its Northwind Debt Fund III. The funds include $25 million in preferred equity from Atlas Capital Group.
205 Montague Street. Image: Google
The closest subways from the development are the R train at the Court Street station and the 2 and 3 trains at the Borough Hall station.
A construction timeline for 205 Montague Street has yet to be announced.
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Brooklyn Dodgers’ offices were at 215 Montague- razed for this development
I hope they at least replace the commemorative plaque previously at that site…
This is going to be such a missed opportunity architecturally. We should get a proper complement to 16 Court, and instead, we’re going to get Long Island City/dumbed down Miami Chic.