Thursday, December 15, 2011

Still drilling at the Mystery Lot


@robbyohara passes along a photo from The Mystery Lot, where work has continued all week...

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.

A commenter on our last Mystery Lot post wrote, "this is going to be a condo. it was purchased with a new jersey developer who builds condos."
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5 comments:

  1. Ken from Ken's KitchenDecember 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM

    Hopefully they're not fracking.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    Hhaha, I was just going to write, "Fracking?"

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  3. AnonymousDecember 15, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    My guess they are taking soil samples before digging a building's foundation.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 3:14 AM

    ARE u sure that is not the son's of JED CLAMPET U never know these days

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  5. AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    An oil derrick might actually be an improvement over condos or another 'boutique' hotel. A bunch of hookers hanging around the base of an oil well drinking wine and smoking crack would at least be interesting...

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