Ben Simmons is trying again to unload his custom Dumbo duplex, quietly putting the place back on the market at Olympia Dumbo’s 30 Front Street with a leaner price tag after more than a year of no takers. The combined 21st-floor spread is now asking around $15 million as the former Net keeps shifting his home base and career to Los Angeles.
What’s for sale
The relisted apartment is back at $14.99 million and spans about 5,261 square feet, with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, according to Realtor.com. That number is a cut from the roughly $17 million Simmons was chasing when the home first hit the market more than a year ago. The refreshed listing leans into the unit as a turnkey, high-amenity entertainer’s pad perched in one of Dumbo’s most attention-grabbing new towers.
Simmons originally snapped up two adjacent apartments at Olympia Dumbo while the project was still under development, then combined them into the current duplex for roughly $14 million in 2023, as reported by The Real Deal. The first $17 million ask never produced a buyer, so the property is back on the market at the lower figure. The timing tracks with Simmons’s shift to the West Coast and a stretch spent off an NBA roster.
Inside the pad
Listing photos and the write-up show the place was built for serious hanging out: there is a movie theater, an entertainment room with a pool table, a video-game center, a wet bar and custom display shelving, along with separate space carved out for a gym and a private office, according to Realtor.com. The primary suite brings a large walk-in dressing room and a dedicated shoe closet, and the residence connects to an approximately 300-square-foot terrace with wide-angle views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. The current marketing is in the hands of Carl Gambino and Marta Maletz of the Gambino Group at Compass, per the listing.
Why the building still matters
Olympia Dumbo itself continues to pull trophy-level numbers even as individual sellers adjust their expectations. A full-floor penthouse at 30 Front Street closed this year for about $16.3 million, underscoring that buyers will still pay up for the right product in the neighborhood, The Real Deal found. The sail-shaped tower offers a long roster of on-site perks, including indoor and outdoor pools, a private tennis court and a game lounge, which help explain why high-end buyers keep circling the building, CityRealty notes. Those amenities give sellers something to lean on even as comps and pricing get tweaked.
Simmons’s price trim fits neatly into a broader pattern of trophy-scale listings getting sharpened to meet what Brooklyn luxury buyers will actually pay. Olympia has both set records and rotated sales teams since launch, as local coverage has tracked. The ex-Net’s relist will be watched as a local test of appetite for big, amenity-heavy units in Dumbo. 6sqft has followed the building’s sales and points out how quickly top-tier listings in the project can reset.
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