Catching up to an update about Blatt Billiards, a pool table manufacturer, who will be leaving its longtime home at 809 Broadway near East 12th Street. The 126-year-old loft building sold for $24 million in May. And the new owners have big plans here, as The Real Deal reported, by nearly quadrupling the building's height with the addition of three apartments.
IDM Capital filed plans to boost the height of the 55-foot building at 809 Broadway to 199 feet, adding 10 stories to the five-story structure.
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The new building is expected to have about 22,000 square feet of commercial space, 10,400 square feet of residential space and a 167-square-foot wedge set aside for community facilities, the DOB filings showed.
It all goes as planned, the building will look like this:
gee...what an improvement
ReplyDeletelet's just rename the entire city MIDTOWN and be done with it.
ReplyDeleteOh my God, WHY?!?
ReplyDeleteYuck. Son of Death Star?
ReplyDelete#Bloomberg'sNYC
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess they are trying to make a new building to fit into the historic style of the surrounding neighborhood.... i. e. the 7 11 next to it...
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking the other day that I'm suprised they are hanging in there... and like clockwork, there it goes.
ReplyDeleteSeriously - What the fucking fuck?
ReplyDeleteWho did they bribe or blow at the DoB to get this approved? They are taking a classic turn of last century building in a semi historic area and building something that belongs in Atlanta.
This has to be some kind of joke - I guess because it's on the west side of B'Way it's not covered in the EV height restriction, but seriously.
I am a Tribecan but I think this building is beautiful. Sorry, it looks better than what's currently standing now. I'm not sure why you people equate all development to bad. Quality of life has improved tremendously in the past decade. It used to be a slum and now it's a tres chic and fashionable hood. I will miss Mayor Bloomberg.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but this building was never in a "slum" and it's not that "tres chic" an area now. But, it's an absolutely beautiful building as it is. I can see adding some floors on top, but the new design ruins what's there as well as what's around it.
ReplyDeleteIt's all just crazy, endless greed. You could take the existing and make kick-ass cool lofts and sell them for a million dollars each. Maybe add a couple of floors like the building next door (although they did a pretty poor job when they did that).
ReplyDeleteYou've enhanced the neighborhood and made some money - good job.
But no! That's not enough. They need to destroy a perfectly good re-usable building because they need to make lots and lots more money.
Take that shit to Dubai or Houston - the reason people live in NY or come and visit is not to see more boring glass towers sold to Russian crooks who will never live there
The inside of Blatt's workshop, all the way in the back, is a 1900s time capsule.
ReplyDeleteWHERE the fuck is landmarking when it is needed most????
Why are you guys complaining about this very good looking fashion-forward building. It looks great and high end.
ReplyDeleteToo tall for the nabe, but crony capital has ruled for the past twenty years. The dorm on 12th is too tall as well...and so forth.
ReplyDeleteLet us see what happens next.
If Patrick Bateman was a building, this one would be him. That's some glassy stare.
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