Livingston Street: Exotic, offbeat, gritty, now slated for mainstream
Big developments are percolating on Livingston Street – and before you know it, new retailers will want in on the action, real estate executives predict.
With a hodgepodge of 99-cent stores, furniture sellers, salons and the backside of Macy’s – the blank-faced side that doesn’t have display windows – the street is about as unglamorous as it gets for Downtown Brooklyn retail corridors.
But two high-profile apartment projects at 276-300 Livingston and 350 Livingston, near the Flatbush Avenue end of the thoroughfare, will fire up restaurant owners’ and merchants’ interest in the street, brokers believe. Livingston Street will start getting serious consideration from tenants being priced out of the hotter-than-ever Fulton Mall.
Though the transformation is expected to take several years, optimism is starting to stir.