Condos are likely coming to the Grand Prospect Hall location
Hopes that part of Park Slope’s fabled Grand Prospect Hall could be saved dimmed earlier this week with the revelation that the new owner, Gowanus Cubes, an LLC operated by Angelo Rigas, has filed permits for a five-story, mixed-use building, most likely containing condos, on the site.
Although the move had been expected, local preservationists had hoped that at least the façade of the historic banquet hall would be preserved. However, Jim Glaser, an artist who lives nearby, told the New York Post that the building was in the final stages of demolition.
Since the 1980s, Grand Prospect Hall, at 263 Prospect Ave., was known for its television commercial, in which owners Michael and Alice Halkias stood amid the hall’s opulent fixtures and architecture and said, “We make your dreams come true!”