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After an ultimate-hour storm of protests failed to save Park Slope’s iconic Grand Prospect Hall, the wedding and event hall that had stood for over a century
The historic banquet hall and event space promised to "make your dreams come true," but community activism has failed to halt its redevelopment.
YIMBY has the latest permits filed for 263 Prospect Avenue, site of the former Grand Prospect Hall reception hall in Greenwood Heights.
arrow The Grand Prospect Hall, the over-the-top Park Slope event venue, was sold in a $30 million deal involving 12 neighborhood properties, according to The Real Deal. The reception hall was sold by owner Alice Halkias for $22.5 million to Gowanus Cubes, an LLC operated by Angelo Rigas. Eleven other parcels made up the remaining $7.5 million of the deal. Halkias and her husband Michael, who passed away last year, were the stars of their homespun commercial—set to soaring music (and parodied by Saturday Night Live)—promoting the hall's glamorous spaces, with Alice Halkias declaring, "We m...