SOUTH SLOPE — Brooklyn Cohousing members report they are in contract on a new site at 19th Street and Eighth Avenue in the South Slope, Greenwood Heights area.

The building, a former warehouse, is close to Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery and is in the P.S. 10 school district.

The nonprofit organization will renovate the large warehouse into 31 apartments ranging from studios to three bedroom units.

As previously reported in the Eagle, this is the second site the group has considered. The first was the Carlton Mews develoment in Fort Greene, which fell through.

Also as previously reported, the group has hired an architect and a contractor, and has 15-member households committed to the effort already — committed in a financial way as well as in a philosophical way.

Spokesperson Robert Holbrook described the movement as an effort to live in a community with a diverse group of people with private apartments but shared communal spaces. They can eat meals together, hang out, have playrooms for kids, share childcare, tend a vegetable garden and generally support each other.

To learn more about becoming a member, please visit www.brooklyncohousing.org.

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