Wednesday, August 17, 2022

A new residential building for this block of 9th Street

Foundation work continues at 645 E. Ninth St., where a 7-story residential building will rise on the site of a former parking lot between Avenue B and Avenue C.

The now-approved permits, first filed in April 2020, show 10 residential units, most likely rentals given the square footage. 

This is the second former residential parking lot on the block to yield to housing... No. 639, an 8-story building, was unveiled (finally) in late 2020...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice. So many empty lots still to go.

Neighbor said...

Great news. Keep building on all of the unoccupied lots. More housing is the only way to control prices

Wombat said...

Wish they would think about the design. Nice to fill the empty lots but this thing is FUGLY !

Anonymous said...

LITERALLY looks like a detention center.
Perfect for this neighborhood.

Anonymous said...

If you think building more will lower the cost, it won’t. There’s tight control on the number of units that would be required to lower the cost. The industry will just block the building of large projects in a timely manner and small projects get rate limited. All so the cost of housing never goes down or balances out,

Even if they built 100 buildings in a single year, inflation and other political tactics wouldn’t allow the cost to go down.

It is however correct to say that building “could” cause prices to lower, but it never will.