Closets as Big as Some Apartments

07CLOSETJP3SUB-master675The latest must-have turning up in some of the city’s most expensive condominiums is something that might seem mundane to home buyers in many other parts of the country: spacious master-suite closets.

 Playing up the sheer luxury of having enough space to store your stuff, many developers are going well beyond standard 24-inch-deep reach-ins and run-of-the-mill walk-ins to create closets where you might actually want to spend time.
The new closets of choice are full-fledged dressing rooms the size of stand-alone bedrooms, arrangements with two separate walk-ins for couples, and windowed rooms with precious natural light and views that were once reserved for the main living areas.
“Frankly, with every building we do, the closet space is larger than the last building we did,” said Kevin Maloney, the founder of the Property Markets Group.
At 10 Sullivan in SoHo, a condo project that Property Markets is developing with Madison Equities, many larger apartments have expansive windowed dressing rooms measuring roughly 9 by 16 feet.

“We’ve reduced the size of the bedrooms and pushed that space into the closets, because the luxury buyer is looking for that large closet space,” Mr. Maloney said. “They want the big walk-in, with a shoe counter in the middle and all the bells and whistles.”

 He employed the same strategy at Walker Tower, a condominium at 212 West 18th Street completed in 2013, he said, to create dressing rooms that are “probably three times what you would consider a reasonable walk-in closet.” And he is now doing the same for a new condo project at 111 Leroy Street.