Within the latest Spike Lee movie “Highest 2 Lowest,” actor Denzel Washington, enjoying a music mogul, spends a superb portion of the film in his sprawling Dumbo penthouse, negotiating the discharge of his kidnapped son.
Now, it seems some extra nice negotiations have gone down between a purchaser for the starring unit and Fortis Property Group, the developer behind the property. The penthouse went into contract with a final asking worth of $17.5 million, in response to StreetEasy.
The deal comes three years after the constructing’s different penthouse on the thirty third ground appeared to enter contract with an asking worth $17.5 million. That unit then appeared again on StreetEasy asking $15 million final summer time with out having closed, earlier than being taken off the market on the finish of the yr. (The New York Publish reported the wishy-washy purchaser was actor Michael B. Jordan).
If Penthouse B closes at that worth, it might be the second most-expensive apartment offered within the borough and the costliest on a worth per sq. foot foundation, at over $3,550 per sq. foot, in response to a spokesperson for the constructing. A apartment at Quay Tower that sold for $20.3 million nonetheless holds the document for the borough’s most costly apartment commerce.
Spanning nearly 5,000 sq. ft throughout the complete thirty second ground of the sail-shaped constructing on 30 Entrance Road referred to as the Olympia Dumbo, the 10-room apartment options 5 bedrooms, 4 full bogs and a house workplace.
The house has 360-degree views and a non-public terrace that spans over 500 sq. ft and appears out to Manhattan’s southern skyline.
Facilities embody a 24-hour doorman and concierge, a full-size tennis courtroom, indoor and outside swimming swimming pools, and a health heart with a boxing gymnasium and spin studio.
After launching gross sales in 2021, the challenge has offered roughly two-third of its models, in response to Marketproof, and rotated by means of plenty of gross sales groups, a lot of whom declare possession to this newest contract, together with Douglas Elliman Growth Advertising and marketing.
The group consists of Elliman’s Jessica Peters and Carl Ekroth of the Jessica Peters Workforce, Karen Heyman and Casey Heyman of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, and Elliman’s Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes of the Eklund Gomes Workforce.
Regardless of sponsor gross sales shifting in matches and begins, the constructing nonetheless lays declare to being the most expensive in Brooklyn, with models on common promoting for $2,436 per foot, roughly $400 greater than notoriously dear developments on the Williamsburg waterfront like Williamsburg Wharf and One Domino Sq..
The constructing additionally scored its first resale final yr, when unit 27A sold for nearly $10 million, or roughly $3,300 per foot, lower than two years after the vendor had bought the apartment for $8 million. Former Brooklyn Internet Ben Simmons listed his duplex condo within the constructing final yr for nearly $17 million, after buying the apartment in 2023 for $14 million.
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