![The lot, pre-development, at 785 Dekalb between Tompkins and Throop in Bed-Stuy](https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/bkreader/import/2014_04_Screen-Shot-2014-04-03-at-8.38.34-AM.png;w=960)
Bed-Stuy residents have seen an explosion of new "luxury" buildings going up all around the neighborhood over the past 5-7 years...
But this one, located at at 785 Dekalb between Tompkins and Throop in Bed-Stuy, has quite a few residents scratching their heads.
![785-dekalb-avenue-bed-stuy-rendering-42014](https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/bkreader/import/2014_04_785-dekalb-avenue-bed-stuy-rendering-42014.jpg;w=960)
Talk about architecturally out of sorts. What does this building have at all to do with Bedford-Stuyvesant?
It's like a missmatched shoe... or a pair of sandals in the Arctic tundra, or a North Face bubblecoat in the Sahara sun.
The six-story building, first reported about yesterday by Brownstoner, will have 70 units spread across 52,429 feet of residential space, with asymmetrical portholes, a glass dome and a large atrium in the building's center.
The new building's developer SSJ Realty paid $2,700,000 in 2006 for the property way back in 2006, formerly the old Kismet Theater, a cinema that opened there in 1922 which became a church in the mid-'60s.
What do you think? Are you excited about the architectural diversity and creativity this building will add to the nabe? Or does it feel like an uncommon bedfellow?