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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Beaming up at the new Lower Eastside Girls Club home
We've noted the progress on the new Lower Eastside Girls Club home going up on Avenue D between Seventh Street and Eighth Street... You can see a lot of the progress on the Seventh and Eighth Street sides... However, a walk by this past weekend revealed the first beams going up on the Avenue D side ...
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Thanks for following the progress! Yes, work is proceeding on Avenue D. But you won't see those beams for long. They are segments of the sheeting, which form the walls of a giant "bathtub" to hold back groundwater from the basement. They will be sunk down into the ground.
ReplyDeleteThe structures on 7th and 8th Streets are as high as they will go. 8th Street will house the East Village Dome Theater (the only community planetarium in New York) among other things, and 7th Street will have the cafe, kitchen, bakery, and offices. Lots more on the way!
woo! inclusionary housing about sixty seventy percent market rate....
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the last comment referred to. 50% of the housing above the Center for Community will be market rate, 50% low and moderate income.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the insight, Dave!
ReplyDeleteWhile I love the girls club element of this building, I do not like the housing breakdown. I think that the housing should be 100% affordable with a middle, low and very low breakdown. The 50% to 80% market rate model, which is everywhere proves to be a failure, as it helps to proliferate more 100% market rate housing in the area, as well as to set a precedence towards these kinds of hybrids.
ReplyDeleteWE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE MARKET RATE HOUSING PERIOD
How has this model become a standard that nobody questions and nobody fights about. Every day on the blogs we see more and more atrocities that pertain to mind boggling
multi- million dollar condos that keep on getting higher and higher, as well as daunting rental prices in the East Village.
The Mars Bar building same thing, a done deal!
Seward Park is still undergoing negotiations but leaning towards this model. Houston Street, the Bowery, etc., are a failure because the percentage of market rate produces more market rate and in the end they take it all!