Roast #51: searching, learning, and thinking

For funsies, you should read editions 1.0, 2.0 to see the progression of things.It’s been a while. Per our original timeline, we should be finishing construction now. lol. What we estimated as our 2026 timeline early February.Below is what we’ve been up to and where we are at.Touring spaces:We started this journey intending to find something in North Brooklyn—specifically, something by McGolrick Park.I don’t think we are going to land there anymore. There just isn’t much supply in that part of North Brooklyn.Rejection is part of the gameHonestly, I don’t think we are even going to land in North Brooklyn. There’s just too much competition there. I’ve submitted offers, but they've consistently been outbid.Determining our criteria:I didn’t have a framework for evaluating spaces, so I couldn’t easily reason why a place worked/didn’t work.After seeing a few places and getting a sense of which features really mattered to me, I distilled my criteria to the three below.1. Location:One of…