If you have walked down Montague Street lately, you will have noticed the hoarding. Brooklyn Heights has five residential projects going up at once, and two large family clubs preparing to open within a few blocks of each other. Here is what is being built, where the scaffolding will be, and how long it is expected to stay.
One Montague Place, 205 Montague Street
This is the big one. One Montague Place will rise 47 stories and 672 feet at the northwest corner of Cadman Plaza West and Montague Street, steps from Borough Hall and the Court Street R train. Demolition finished in June and construction began in July. Completion is slated for 2029, which means the better part of three years of activity on that corner.
The $550 million building is planned for 90 rental apartments and 46 condominiums averaging around 2,100 square feet, over roughly 40,000 square feet of retail and a garage for more than 100 cars. It is being developed by Landau Properties with Third Millennium Group and Midtown Equities, with Hill West Architects designing.
For families, the practical news is the retail. Forty thousand square feet at that corner is a significant amount of new ground-floor space in a neighborhood where storefronts turn over slowly.
Four smaller projects, and where the sheds are
120 Court Street. A 14-story mixed-use building at Court and Atlantic, on a site bought from the Sorkin family for $30 million. Demolition is underway and completion is posted for fall 2027.
38–44 State Street. The landmarked former trolley power station near Willow Place is becoming five condominiums across 23,750 square feet. The developers paid $15 million for it and took a $33 million construction loan. Completion is posted for next spring.
33 Joralemon Street. A four-story single-family row house of about 2,600 square feet, due to finish this winter — the shortest disruption of the five.
1 Willow Place. A single-family conversion with five bedrooms. Its posted completion date of fall 2024 has already passed and no revised date has been filed, so the scaffolding there may be with you a while yet.
Kings Athletic Club is opening at 43 Clark Street
Kings Athletic Club is taking the 52,000 square feet in the Hotel St. George complex that the Eastern Athletic Club used to occupy. It is a family-facing pitch: a pool, two tennis courts, pickleball, squash, golf simulators, a climbing wall, a half basketball court, yoga and Pilates studios, saunas and cold plunges, plus arcade games, ping pong, virtual reality and babysitters on staff.
Two things worth knowing before you plan around it. The club has not opened — its own site still says coming soon, though its booking portal is live. And it has not published its rates. Membership figures have been circulating locally, but they belong to other clubs, so treat any number you have heard secondhand as unconfirmed until Kings publishes its own.
The club is at 43 Clark Street. If you have seen 111 Hicks listed elsewhere, both addresses describe the same Hotel St. George complex.
The Beginning Clubhouse at 50 Columbia Heights
The Beginning Clubhouse is taking 45,000 square feet over seven floors inside Panorama Brooklyn at 50 Columbia Heights, from Little Big Hospitality, the team of Michael Schoen and Chris de Koos. The plan runs to a soft-play area above a cinema, a spa, Pilates, a co-working library and a rooftop pizza garden, with interiors by James Thurstan Waterworth, formerly of Soho House.
Membership has been reported at around $400 a month per adult and $250 per child, with a $5,000 initiation fee. Those are reported figures rather than published ones, so confirm directly if you are budgeting around them.
And the Bossert, still going
The Hotel Bossert’s conversion into Ritz-Carlton Residences is the other long-running Brooklyn Heights project. We wrote about that separately: Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn Heights to Become Ritz-Carlton Residences.
Between them, these projects mean Brooklyn Heights will be a construction neighborhood through 2029. The stroller-relevant version: expect sheds on Court, State, Joralemon and Willow Place in the near term, and a permanent change to the Cadman Plaza West corner over the next three years.
