It's been a few months since we last checked in on the 2300 block of Alter Street in Point Breeze. Back in April, we updated you on the progress of the residential development on the block, noting that additional homes were under construction and many units had sold from the first phase of the project. At the same time, an unfortunate storage facility was rising on the north side of the street (and more prominently on the 2300 block of Washington Avenue), and we knew it would only continue to get taller as the months rolled off the calendar. Checking in today, we see, predictably, that more homes have been finished, more units have sold, and the storage facility has gotten bigger.
If we look a block to the east though, we see additional development on the 2200 block of Alter Street. We last visited this block in 2012, at which time a two-story modular building was under construction to be used as artist workspace. Seeing as it looked nothing like any other building in the neighborhood, a reader remarked that it looked like a spaceship had descended into Point Breeze. Four years later, there's still nothing like this building in the area.
And the building is getting some new neighbors. Octo Enterprises, owners of the "spaceship" as well as the biscuit factory-turned artist studios closer to 22nd Street, have decided to develop some of their vacant lots on the block, with plans calling for three new homes. These homes will each rise four stories and include garage parking. It appears that this project is happening by-right, but we're not clear exactly how that's the case in this ICMX location. On the other hand, good for them to be building by right in Point Breeze, as it makes life infinitely easier.
Like their neighbor, these homes will be quite unique in the neighborhood. And with their significant size, location on the northern end of the neighborhood, and included garage parking, we suspect that buyers will be lining up to purchase them.