Not louvered as it’s on the back side of the Stanley Saitowitz designed (and lived-in) building, 1234 Howard #2C is back on the market and asking $639,000 (purchased for $587,000 in December 2007).
∙ Listing: 1234 Howard #2C (1/1) 886 sqft – $639,000 [MLS]
∙ Those Amazing Automated Aluminum Louvers On 1234 Howard [SocketSite]
∙ 1234 Howard: The Budget To Build (Around $200 A Square Foot) [SocketSite]
$639k for a small 1/1 in a crappy neighborhood? 9% above 2007 pricing? You have got to be kidding me.
Stanley Saitowitz is so overrated. What really makes him better than any other average or above average architect?
Yes its pricey, and the hood dicey, but for the right hipster, it’s sleekness fits the lifestyle… nicely. Burma shave.
Does the lack of a door to the two openings into the bedroom makes this effectively a studio instead ? The downdraft exhaust for the cook top has better be really effectly or the entire unit will smell like grease, especially in the bedroom right next to it…
What’s a Burma shave?
I followed the link, but I missed where it says that Mr. Saitowitz lived in the building.
[Editor’s Note: Poorly linked on our part but since corrected (Saitowitz combined the top two louvered two-bedrooms into a single unit for himself).]
I didn’t find the place that small, but most of the units are lacking sufficient storage (for such an open space). Only a couple had large storage closets.
I was also surprised that some of the units had two bathrooms; seemed to be an unneeded waste of space.
Lastly, the attention to detail on the finishes was not what I would have expected; lots of rough edges.
Where am I supposed to put all of my chotchkies?
My co-worker at Google just bought the same size unit in the building and he paid 650k! It was supposedly the first unit in the building to be resold. This building is a work of art and isn’t for everyone. I LOVE IT!
^Ahh, the Google ploy returns from the real estate agents.
That was such important information we all needed, that he worked “at Google!”
And from that long time, recognizeable poster, “Nancy”.
Sooo believable.
Burma Shave used to post signage along rural roads in America, posted a few thousand feet apart, so as you drove along some little rhyme would unfold, thusly (always ending with “Burma Shave”:
Ah, SOMA, once haunted… (1000 ft)
…by leather men undaunted… (another 1000 ft)
but now its sleek, (ditto)
and hipster-geek, (ditto ditto)
and denim sans chaps are what’s flaunted.
Burma Shave.
A little research shows that the recent $650k buyer doesn’t work for Google. He works for Facebook. Maybe he used to work for Google.
Ok, gotcha.