CROWN HEIGHTS — A new six-story residential building is set to replace a one-level brick house in a development project to start next year, the site’s new owner and developer said.
Shlomi Avdoo of Level One Holdings said construction will likely begin in 2017 at 496 Prospect Place, a small lot near Classon Avenue in Crown Heights currently home to a small house and storefront.
The 80-year-old former owner Ora Worrell bought the property in 1986 for $30,000, according to public records. Neither she nor the developer disclosed the sale price of the building, which Worrell said closed July 15, and public records available online do not yet reflect the transaction.
Worrell also told DNAinfo New York she plans to move to Sheepshead Bay when she leaves the Prospect Place home.
The new building set to be constructed on the property will have six units, one on each floor, permits show. Avdoo said he has not yet determined whether the apartments will be rentals or condominiums.
Bushwick-based Level One Holdings is developing several other Brooklyn residential projects, according to previous reporting by New York YIMBY, including a large rental building in Bedford-Stuyvesant and a four-story apartment building at 406 Prospect Place, located about a block away from its newest purchase.
