great job! this could start something
great job! this could start something
The owner unit on the first and second is 1000 sq' and the subs are 700 sq'. The third floor single is the entire floor. I don't want to quote him on a price just yet, but from the sound of it these three will go very quickly.
The garages look so narrow on the plan, it doesn't look like you'd be able to get out of your car. What's with that?
So are the old store fronts on the first floor being converted to blank walls? No mention on any retail coming into the first floor, just wondering. I would hate to see new projects such as this contibute to more blank walls downtown, especially on Washington St.
Love those cast iron columns & tin plate ceilings! But I am blanking on which building this is. How about an exterior shot?
What is the starting price and square footage of each unit? Are they on MLS now? Is the public able to see the plans?
Rumor on the street is that a similar 2 unit condo project is in the works close by this project.
Another great project by Eran!
Decent project. questions about the floorplans, which way is north, and who draws a drawing and does label the streets or north.. sorry but VERY sloppy Silvestri... any first year architecture student knows you need to label north and site context. Assuming that up in north than are we really going to get nothing but three garage doors and curb cuts for the public street front.
How tacky...
what about leasing spaces in the LARGE PARKING LOT next to his building, or the one ACROSS the street or the Garage also ACROSS the street. I don't think that the people who will buy these condos will be the type that will complain about walking across the street to park their car.
Click on the 504 Washington Street link in the post - it will direct you to Westcoast's post that has an image of the building.
Perhaps some of these condo owners will decide to take the Metro and convert their garage to a live/work or retail space.
Very interesting project.
Queens - let me see if I have this straight: the units at the front of the building (with the garages) are the units that go from first floor all the way up to third floor, while the apartment units are the back of the building and only floors 1 and 2?
If these units aren't snapped up the minute they hit the market, I'll be shocked.
I hope developers are paying attention... buyers are chomping at the bit to buy downtown!
maybe someone can explain this to me. why are most of the developments i see additional housing units? where are all the tenants coming form?
im not being negative, i dont know the answer.
condos and retail seem like a weird way to revive a city
Most of the people I know who are buying, are from NYC or long island. Looking to have either a second home in Buffalo...or as a primary home but are originally from NYC and LI. Often they work from home. or come up to Buffalo on the weekends to get away.
The $100-300,000 condo is the range they are usually looking for. In the city and on the island this doesn't buy much.
Want a real sock? Go to the Hard ware cafe on Allen during a American Football game. And you'll meet a ton of Europeans avoiding football. Good conversations.
Some people I know who want to buy are Buffalo natives who are returning to Buffalo from NYC after many years away. They have come to recognize that they could never afford anything decent in NYC but they can in Buffalo.
The write up does not appear to agree with the plans in the hyperlink?
It really isn't a good location for retail anyway. If you wanted to see a cafe or restaurant in that immediate area then it should go in the recently vacated baker? shoe's corner building a couple of doors down. A retail operation could actually work there.
I think it would be nice to convert the old Baker's shoe store on the corner into coffee shop/diner/restaurant that stays open later at night. Maybe with all the residential coming downtown it could be something similar to the restaurant hangout on Seinfeld. Also, I think that the first floor area of this condo development would have been a fabulous retail space. With the impressively tall ceilings (taller than most old stores), and the remarkably intact columns and tin ceilings, it could possibly have been better reused, instead of being hidden in a garage. This is a nice project though, using a building that has been vacant for quite some time, and brings home ownership downtown.
WZAS & VV, the plans have changed since first conception from what I can tell as there has been much time between... the concept remains the same from what I understand.
I think rumor is the current owner of baker shoes is converting to a restaurant... wish granted.. assuming the guys gets all his ducks in a row.
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