Month: May 2019

Angel Guardian Home poised for its next act

A new school, assisted living, affordable housing and more The storied Angel Guardian Home in Dyker Heights will soon house a new school, an assisted living facility, affordable housing and, the developer hopes, a secondcoming of the senior center that shuttered inside the facility last spring. The approximately 140,000-square-foot, blocklong property located at 6301 12th Ave. was sold for $37 million to development firm Barone Management at the end of 2017 by the Sisters of Mercy — longtime owners of the old orphanage whose “mercy” was oft-questioned in the wake of the hush-hush sa...

Public School Coming to Angel Guardian Home Redevelopment

Barone Management has closed on the sale of a parcel of land to the New York City School Construction Authority in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighborhood. The land sits within a 140,000-square-foot site that Barone acquired in August 2018. The new school building represents one of three development phases on the property, and has been part of the development plan since Barone acquired it. The plan also includes a new three-story residential building and the long-term preservation of the original Angel Guardian Home for Children building located at 6301 12th Ave.  This historic building ...

Barone Sells Part of Dyker Heights Site to City for Public Elementary School

Barone Management has sold off a portion of its big development site in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn to the School Construction Authority (SCA) for $17.5 million, Commercial Observer has learned. The SCA purchased a 24,000-square-foot piece of the former Angel Guardian Home property on Tuesday with plans to build a 600-seat public elementary school on the site, according to information from Barone. The firm, led by Scott Barone, bought the historic former orphanage complex at 6301 12th Avenue last August for $37.5 million from the Sisters of Mercy, an order of Catholic nu...

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