On Friday afternoon, we got the first look at what a good chunk of East 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B might look like a few years from now ... via this conceptual rendering from an RKF retail listing ...
To date, eight parcels consisting of 222 Avenue A and 504 - 530 E. 14th St. (excluding No. 520) were leased for a 99-year period. Per the retail listing, this will be a seven-story residential and retail development.
The post drew 57 comments... ranging from better than what's there now (several commenters noted the corner space is currently housing a handful of people) ...
... to could have been worse... to ugly, boring, suburban ...
So we're trying to get an idea of how large this "residential and retail development" will be... The red lines (where are the arrows?!) outline the parcels that were sold...
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And one thing that we didn't mention Friday: The listing says that there will be a "loading dock located on the East 13th Street side of building."
So what will go on East 13th Street to make this loading dock a reality? (And is this quiet stretch of East 13th Street really loading-dock friendly?) Our best guess... whatever this thing is on the block...
And from the air...
And it seems like that fire on Avenue A and East 14th Street was a really long time ago already...
[EV Grieve reader Sergey]The three-alarm fire wiped out the corner on May 12, 2010... taking with it neighborhood favorites Stuyvesant Grocery and Pete's-a-Pizza.
Previously on EV Grieve:
East 14th Street exodus continues
The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street
[Updated with correction] 8-lot parcel of East 14th Street primed for new development
East 14th Street corridor now nearly business-free ahead of new development
Here is the future of East 14th Street and Avenue A: 7 stories of residential and retail
There goes the neighborhood!
ReplyDeleteWhat neighborhood? There went the neighborhood. Neighborhood had been long gone. Gone, I tell ya. GONE. EV Gone.
ReplyDeleteThe neighborhood is so gone. It's depressing. RIP UEV.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious to see how intense the buyout situation in the surrounding area will be.
All window, no character. A block of cheese. And almost certainly too $$$.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I was kind of hoping would come out of this is the building of a second entrance to the 1st ave L stop on Avenue A. It would ease some congestion caused by crowding around the 1st ave entrances and would benefit whatever retail would move in there.
ReplyDeleteA new L entrance on A??? Seriously 2:22, what dream world are you living in?
ReplyDeletethat building currently there was the back of rite aid
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