Available For Rent On Smith Street: A Glimpse Inside Former Medical Office

This has to be one of the larger retail spaces on Smith Street! Once a medical office, Number 229 has been available for rent for just a few months for $6,500 by Smith Hanten Real Estate.
The 2,250 foot space, between Douglass and Butler Streets, used to be divided into smaller offices, but a glimpse through the window revealed that it has recently been gutted. It actually looks quite amazing.
The real estate ad states that a food business would be permitted. No doubt. Only a restaurant could pay that kind of monthly rent and turn a profit.
But Smith Street would be so much more interesting if there were less eating and drinking establishments, I say.

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Space Occupied By Indi(a) House For Rent, But Restaurant Owner Not Worried

"Are you closing your restaurant?" I asked the owner of the India House restaurant at 139 Court Street back in February, when I saw that his place of business was being advertised by Smith Hanten Real Estate. He seemed bemused and assured me that, no, he was not going anywhere. But he added:
" The owner of the building has tried to rent it out for a long time. I don't have a lease anymore. He wants too much money."

Well, obviously, something happened, because India House is closed now. It has been at that location for as long as I have lived in the neighborhood (25 years.) I am kind of sorry to see it gone, though I have to admit that I only set foot into the restaurant once.

The storefront is for rent for $7,000.

On Smith Hanten's Web site

Court St in Cobble Hill

- Very busy intersection
- Across the street from a new "Trader Joe's"
- Three (3) blocks to Express trains @ Boro Hall
- Basement Included
- Sorry - no food or Liquor allowed

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Space Occupied By Indi(a) House For Rent, But Restaurant Owner Not Worried

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