Monday, June 17, 2013

Jupiter 21 jettisons its plywood



Jupiter 21, the apartment building that rose above the old Mars Bar space, is now plywood free... and you can see what the retail portion here along East First Street and Second Avenue looks like...







One of the exciting new tenants will be the 4,300-square-foot TBD Bank branch. And next door, maybe Mars Bar 2.0? Back in early January Billy Gray at the Commercial Observer reported:

The development company BFC Partners reached an agreement with the Mars Bar crew that would allow the next commercial tenant to occupy a 4,456 basement and ground floor space under the proud, stubborn and – who knew? – business-minded Mars Bar auspices.


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Previously on EV Grieve:
The former Mars Bar is becoming a fucking bank branch

Mars Bar primed to make an East Village comeback?

11 comments:

Gojira said...

What a soulless, featureless, inhumane piece of architectural crap. Why is it that this city is being crammed with more and more of these cheap-ass, poorly-designed and -executed boxes? We deserve better!

Marty Wombacher said...

Ugh.

Anonymous said...

...and of course, time for another bank branch, cause the EV doesn't have enough. (Gees, remember when you had to get money in Midtown -- unless you belonged to the credit union -- cause there weren't any banks around here? Yeah, I'm that old.)

Laura Goggin Photography said...

I like that you called it "TB" Bank - entirely appropriate as you won't catch me anywhere near there!

EV Grieve said...

@ Goggla

Ha!

Awesome typo!

Eden Bee said...

I can't wait to part my Citibike™ out front and tie one on!

Anonymous said...

I think it looks nice. The old building looked like crap and was too low density for the area.

Anyway, I would love to see a bar or other nightlife venue lease that commercial space.

Anonymous said...

Low density and high on cultural history. ...These new neutered souless voids stand like cold sacafagi over still warm vital sites of this living breathing culture folks care about. This is a Cultural Genocide. Thanks to a planned Bloomberg Blitzkrieg.

Anonymous said...

No need to go to Orlando. It has come to us.

Anonymous said...

Put on your mom-pants folks! You've arrived in New York City™

Anonymous said...

I detest this kind of soullessness as much as the next EV'er, but what the hell IS it with you people and the Mars Bar? Was it paved with gold? Did it dispense nectar and ambrosia from the beer taps? What the fuck was so fucking great about it that it takes up half the space here with people whining about it? It was a damn BAR, from all I can tell. I was never in it, and I don't miss it in the slightest, and I'm just puzzled at all the wailing and lamenting about its demise. Plenty of better stuff has gone missing in our neighborhood, and yet this shabby little watering hole is what you all moan about. Kindly shut it. Or at least tone it down.