{"id":64514,"date":"2025-12-08T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64514\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:28:12","slug":"purple-crayon-preschool-takes-5k-sf-at-544-carroll-in-brooklyn-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64514\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Crayon Preschool Takes 5K SF at 544 Carroll in Brooklyn \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early childhood education provider Purple Crayon<\/a> has inked a 4,600-square-foot ground-floor retail lease at 544 Carroll, a boutique apartment complex at the corner of Carroll Street and Fourth Avenue near Park Slope and Gowanus in Brooklyn, design and development firm Avery Hall<\/a> announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is the preschool\u2019s fourth Brooklyn location and the first retail tenant for the residential building, which launched leasing earlier this year. The length of the lease is 15 years. The asking rent was not disclosed. The average asking rent for retail space along nearby Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn was $100 per square foot, according to the most recent data from<\/a> the Real Estate Board of New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom the start, our vision for 544 Carroll was to create a residential experience that reflects how today\u2019s families want to live; thoughtfully designed homes, a connected neighborhood and meaningful support right outside their door. Welcoming Purple Crayon preschool as a retail tenant brings that vision to life,\u201d Brian Ezra, founding partner of Avery Hall, said in a statement announcing the lease.<\/p>\n

Matt Hopkins of Acona Real Estate represented Purple Crayon in the lease.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcona was proud to represent Purple Crayon on this lease,\u201d Hopkins said via email. \u201cPurple Crayon will be a great addition to the building and will provide the neighborhood an amazing new option for early childhood care and education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Beard and Jason Pennington of Ripco represented Avery Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the onset of the marketing, we had a tremendous amount of interest from schools, fitness concepts and cafes in Avery Hall\u2019s 544 Carroll Street,\u201d Pennington said via email. \u201cThe quality of the building design, visibility, space layout, and rear yard made this a development stand out in the burgeoning Gowanus neighborhood. Working closely with Avery Hall and Matt Hopkins, we all knew that Purple Crayon is the best in class and the ideal tenant for this standout development. They will be a wonderful addition to the area and a long-term success.\u201d<\/p>\n

544 Carroll hit the market over the summer, offering 133 family-size homes with amenities including a sunset deck, a children\u2019s playroom called \u201cthe kids\u2019 cave,\u201d several fitness options and coworking space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amanda Schiavo can be reached at aschiavo@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early childhood education provider Purple Crayon has inked a 4,600-square-foot ground-floor retail lease at 544 Carroll, a boutique…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[33737,33738,33739,98,100,99,33740,2361,33741,9,24,63,5943],"class_list":{"0":"post-64514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-544-carroll","9":"tag-alex-beard","10":"tag-brian-ezra","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-jason-pennington","15":"tag-leases","16":"tag-matt-hopkins-channel","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-retail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}