Back in August, drillers were drilling away at the Mystery Lot (link
here) ...
Today, the drillers are resuming the drilling here off 14th Street and Third Avenue!
[Courtesy of
@salim]
What
horrible fate awaits this long-empty lot? It very well may be Balazsed.
In October, The Real Deal reported that developer Charles Blaichman paid $33.2 million for the site. As Curbed noted at the time,
Blaichman was a partner with Jay-Z and Andre Balazs on the hotel that never happened on West 14th Street; and as a partner with Balazs on a doomed project on West 21st Street.
Can we expect the Standard
East Union Square one day?
And another hotel? Why, there isn't a new hotel within a block of here!
[The incoming
Hyatt Union Square on 14th Street and Fourth Avenue, photographed Sunday]
Previously on EV Grieve:
An appreciation: That empty lot on 13th Street
Another view of the Mystery Lot
3 comments:
Can anyone answer a question on development that has long vexed me?
Is there a height restriction to East Village buildings? When built on corners? When built "in block," a la Mystery Lot?
Can any reader answer...or the Griever himself?
Maybe fracking in the Mystery Lot? Why not, it "creates" jobs.
this is going to be a condo. it was purchased with a new jersey developer who builds condos.
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