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BROOKLYN, NY-Time Equities Inc. and Hamlin Ventures LLC have teamed up in a joint venture called HS Development Partners to build a project called "14 Townhouses" here. The development, which will feature 4,000-sf homes with land, will fill almost a half city block on State Street in the Boerum Hill section.

The site was purchased in late 2003 from the Empire State Development Corp. which had owned it since 1974. The project represents the first phase of a five-phase development. Other projects include additional townhouses, market-rate rental apartments and condominium lofts, as well as affordable housing and a mix of other uses.

"Our aim was to create an innovative, architecturally distinguished row house composition along State Street, as well as to develop individual homes whose quality was close to custom-built," says developer Abby Hamlin, president of Hamlin. The modernist brick townhouses, each four or five stories, are designed by Rogers Marvel Architects PLLC.