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Savanna has completed the construction financing of the 141 Willoughby Street development project in downtown Brooklyn, the firm announced.
Savanna secured $264 million of debt financing from lenders including funds managed by CarVal Investors. With official groundbreaking completed in late 2020, Savanna is building a state-of-the-art, WELL Certified 400,000 s/f office and retail building designed by Fogarty Finger with SLCE Architects as executive architect.
“Assembling construction financing for a major ground-up commercial development is a significant feat in the best of times, and to do so successfully during an unprecedented pandemic reaffirms our belief in the 141 Willoughby vision and Savanna’s commitment to New York City,” said Cooper Kramer, Managing Director at Savanna.
Home of Brooklyn Abolitionists Receives Landmark Status
Twenty years of campaigning to preserve a Downtown rowhouse ends in success for neighborhood activists.
Shawné Lee, an owner of the property, at 227 Duffield Street, a house that historians believe was part of the Underground Railroad.Credit.Aundre Larrow for The New York Times
By Zachary Small
Feb. 3, 2021
After a 20-year effort by activists to save it from destruction, a rowhouse in Downtown Brooklyn received landmark status Tuesday for its connection to the antislavery movement of the 1800s.
A unanimous vote by the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated the house, at 227 Duffield Street, as historically important. The designation prevents demolition of or alterations to the structure without the commission’s approval.