Charney Companies and Tavros broke ground this week on their fifth development in Gowanus, according to ConnectCRE — a run that's turned one rezoned Brooklyn neighborhood into a standing job site for the same two partners, year after year.
ConnectCRE's report does not state the unit count, address, or construction cost for this fifth project, so we won't guess at them here. What the record does establish is the pattern: four prior Gowanus developments from the same partnership, with a fifth now underway, in a neighborhood that got its rezoning only a few years back.
That repetition is the story for a contractor. A developer who keeps coming back to the same six blocks isn't just building once — they're building a pipeline, and the GCs, electricians, and curtain-wall subs who get into the first job have a real shot at the second, third, and now fifth. Gowanus has quietly become one of the more reliable sources of private mid-rise work in Brooklyn, project after project, from a short list of repeat developers.
Worth watching alongside this: Gowanus has also produced recent construction starts from other developers — a 1,000-unit tower at 175 3rd Street and permit filings at 238 22nd Street among them — meaning the neighborhood now has multiple active builders stacking work in the same few square blocks at once. For trade contractors already working one Gowanus site, the fifth Charney-Tavros project is worth a call before someone else's crew gets there first.
ConnectCRE's report did not name a general contractor or completion date for this project. We'll update when the city's own permit record catches up.