The former Standish Arms Hotel located in Brooklyn Heights will soon be redeveloped as a condominium building, Curbed New York reports.
The hotel, which is over 100 years old at present, will be the first project in Brooklyn for a new developer company called DDG, in which they got famous for their building in 12 Warren, Tribeca, which was built in Bluestone. They will be partnering with the Westbrook Partners to convert the former Standish Arms Hotel that is located at 169 Columbia Heights.
According to its original report in Crain’s New York, Westbrook and DDG purchased the property last summer for $60 million from the seller, Taurus Investment Holdings.
Taurus, the previous owner, has turned the hotel to rental apartments back in 2008, making the redevelopment job easier.
Curbed reported back in 2007 that the Standish Arms Hotel is a Beaux-Arts building that has 12 stories. The construction was done way back in 1903. It has been the house of the religious group, Jehovah’s Witnesses, for some time.
As of the moment, DDG is working on another development in the Upper East Side. They are working on four luxury condominium developments, these includes, a building in 325 West Broadway, one in 12 Warren St., another in 100 Franklin St., and a 521-foot tower that houses 48 condominium units in 180 E. 88th St. They have successfully built and sold a lot of condominium units over at 41 Bond St. and 345 W. 14th St. DDG has also been known to use handmade bricks from Denmark, which became their signature style when building luxury residences.
Westbrook, on the other hand, is notable for their redevelopment work in St. John’s Terminal, located at West Village. It has around 1,500 residential units that are sold in an affordable price.
There have been no reports which role will be handled by both DDG and Westbrook.
