Owner’s rep gives us the 411 on the Harte & Co. factory
Eye on Real Estate: Apartment complex planned on the site of the Greenpoint industrial icon
At least a piece of this fine façade will survive the wrecking ball, possibly.
That’s the word from the development consultant for the new owners of the handsome — and polluted — former Harte & Co. factory.
The golden-brick Arte Moderne industrial building at 280 Franklin St. is one of the most eye-catching old buildings still standing (for the moment) on the Greenpoint waterfront.
The 1930s-vintage factory, which has a distinctive curved corner made of glass bricks, is part of a multi-building development site that was sold last year. Investors plan to build an apartment complex at the site, as we previously reported. They include Bo Jin Zhu, who signed a $25 million mortgage for the property as an authorized signatory of the purchasing LLC, city Department of Finance records indicate.