{"id":5782,"date":"2010-02-03T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2010-02-03T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:42:17","slug":"the_real_worldization_of_new_york_city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/the_real_worldization_of_new_york_city.html","title":{"rendered":"The Real Worldization Of New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t moneymake a waterfront site into a money-making commercial property, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/33\/6\/33_06_sb_collegetown_red_hook.html\">try building dorms instead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Developer Joe Sitt sent shockwaves through a monthly gathering of real estate executives on Tuesday by sharing news that he hoped to convert his waterfront land between the Ikea superstore and the Fairway supermarket into a student housing complex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ask any university, they&#8217;re starving for student housing,&#8221; Sitt, the CEO of Thor Equities, told the development big wigs at the Real Estate Roundtable at the Brooklyn Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It could be] quasi-residential student housing if we can tempt a nearby university.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/redhook\/reveresugarrefinery\/index.htm\">Revere Sugar Refinery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t moneymake a waterfront site into a money-making commercial property, try building dorms instead: Developer Joe Sitt sent shockwaves through a monthly gathering of real estate executives on Tuesday by sharing news that he hoped to convert his waterfront land between the Ikea superstore and the Fairway supermarket into a student housing complex. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-real_estate","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}