starter home no.

4-15
office of jonathan tate
overview
Neighborhood: Irish Channel

Total area: 12,800 sq. ft.

Type: Condo/Co-op

Architect: OJT (Jonathan Tate, Lauren Hickman,

Sabeen Hasan, Rob Baddour, Jess O’Dell)

Developer: Jonathan Tate

Contractor: Edifice Building

Units
Units: 12

Unit area: 919 - 1538 sq. ft

Construction prince: $2.5 million

Unit cost: $262,000-290,000

zoning
Zoning: MU-1

15.1.D

The MU-1 Medium

Intensity Mixed-Use
District is intended to
encourage walkable
neighborhood centers
and corridors, with a
mix of residential and
commercial uses.
Buildings may contain
vertical mixed-use as
well as single purpose
uses designed to
provide transitions to
adjacent lower density
residential areas.
zoning
Zoning: MU-1

15.1.D

The MU-1 Medium

Intensity Mixed-Use
District is intended to
encourage walkable
neighborhood centers
and corridors, with a
mix of residential and
commercial uses.
Buildings may contain
vertical mixed-use as
well as single purpose
uses designed to
provide transitions to
adjacent lower density
residential areas.
neighborhood rent
OJT

Each urban area has its own particular

“cracks” – under-utilized or altogether ignored
lot types or zoning designations that escape
normative planning efforts and development
models. Identifying under-utilized land in cities
is a process that itself has to be treated on a
case by case basis, and involves an analysis
of relative potentials. As a financial model, this
opportunism affords the ability to find
resource-rich neighborhoods, the benefit of
which is in its contribution both to the
network-based planning scheme of the Starter
Home* as well as the freedom and adaptability
central to its architectural strategy.
strategy
● Firm focuses mainly on infill
housing
● Creation of condominiums
circumvented single-family
zoning, allowing them to legally
double the density while
lowering construction costs.
users
“There is no more resonant product of 20th century
America than that of the “starter home,” the
symbolic and realized entry of a consumer into the
housing market and broader economy; the
ascendancy of ownership in the American
mythology has, over the past 100 years or so,
defined our understanding of what it means to be
socially mobile, financially secure, civic minded, and
fully participatory in a particular national ideology.
The future of the starter home is indistinct; an
inchoate idea of imminent change, exacerbated by
post-recession conditions, guides our discussions,
but we are as yet unsure if we are amending the
wages of sin, requiring a radical paradigm shift – a
counter-myth – or repackaging a functional but
stylistically outdated model for a new generation’s
consumption.”
756 Louisiana Ave
INTERIOR FEATURES

Interior
Beds: 1
Floor size: 700 sqft
Room count: 3
Type
Single Family

$203,000
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Floor size: 581 sqft
Room count: 6
Type
Single Family
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704 9th Street

INTERIOR FEATURES

Interior
Beds: 2
Floor size: 1480 sqft
Room count: 2
Type
Single Family
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INTERIOR FEATURES

Interior
Beds: 3
Floor size: 1,400sqft
Room count: 3
Type
Single Family
411 Toledano St

411 Toledano
INTERIOR FEATURES

Interior
Beds: 2
Floor size: 1,065 sqft
Room count: 7
Type
Single Family