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The Commercial Observer reports that the Flatbush Avenue building once destined for Kemistry, a lounge/club that planned bottle service and was denied a liquor license , is up for sale, for $8 million: The residential and retail property, at 260 Flatbush Avenue, also known as 89-91 Prospect Place, is being exclusively marketed by Eastern Consolidated. The buyer can erect a seven-story addition on top of the existing 3,975-square-foot, one-story structure. The approved plans for the building call for a 20,335-square-foot mixed-use building with 14 residential units accessible via a lobby entrance on Prospect Place, a recreation room for tenants and one retail space with 31 feet of frontage on Flatbush Avenue. The existing structure spans the entire block-through lot and includes a full basement, which houses the building’s primary systems. The seller paid $3.98 million in November 2006. The site is a few blocks from the Barclays Center.

The (revised?) team behind the controversial lounge/nightclub Kemistry proposed for 260 Flatbush Avenue near Park Place, which was yesterday denied a liquor license by the State Liquor Authority, now plans to organize a social club for teenagers, with arcade games and electronic devices. Given the reported high rent at the space, whatever goes in there must be calculated to reap significant revenues. Perhaps the denial of the license, as well as the departure of partner Leonard Bartletto from the liquor license process, caused a re-think regarding whether a liquor license would be viable. A message from Kemistry: new plans Below is the unsigned message I was sent early this morning from an account previously used by project manager Damali L'Elie to send me a message about Kemistry: Kemistry restaurant lounge is sadden by the decision of the community. We had all intention in complying with the matters at hand. Kemistry restaurant Lounge hired a sound professional, who did...

Update July 18: Those behind Kemistry now plan a social club for teenagers . Kemistry, a lounge/nightclub planned for Flatbush Avenue but with a glass back wall at Prospect Place, was emphatically denied a liquor license today by the State Liquor Authority, which cited widespread opposition from the community regarding late hours and planned bottle service. Compounding that opposition, neighbors' skepticism about Kemistry was fueled by late-emerging news (via DNAinfo ) that one of the two partners in the business, Leonard Bartletto, had been arrested on selling marijuana in March, but had not informed fellow partner James Brown or the SLA. Though Brown said today that he was willing to buy Bartletto's share and make some partial concessions regarding the scope of bottle service, SLA officials were unmoved, but instead cited the widespread community opposition. In this case the burden was on Kemistry, planned to host 225 people on two levels. If an applicant for a liqu...

Via Park Slope Stoop Remember Kemistry , the self-described "restaurant, bar and lounge" (or, as neighbors contend, bottle service nightclub) planned for Flatbush Avenue near Prospect Place, with a back emergency exit on a residential street? The establishment, with a capacity for 225 people, faces a hearing before the State Liquor Authority (SLA) Wednesday, July 17, with an array of neighbors, Community Board 6 , and local elected officials opposing it. The objections focus on Kemistry 's plans to stay open late every night (and until 4 am on Saturday and Sunday), its commitment to bottle service, and a pattern of apparent disingenuous behavior. (My query to Kemistry went unanswered.) The hearing , which includes many other applications, begins at 10 am at the SLA office at 317 Lenox Avenue near 126th Street in Harlem, near the 125th Street stop on the 2 or 3 trains. It also should be webcast . Also see coverage in DNAInfo, which quotes neighbors' a...