[EVG file photo from December]
The Odessa Cafe and Bar awning came down last week… and a new for rent sign from a different broker appeared Friday in the front window...
The Odessa Cafe and Bar closed after service on Aug. 31. There have been several suitors for the space. Most recently the plan called for a bar-restaurant serving Nashville Hot Chicken from a Ravi DeRossi-backed operator. We're not sure what happened to this concept. CB3 OK'd the license last month.
Regardless, it appears that 117 Avenue A is back on the open market. We didn't spot this listing just yet on the Tower Brokerage & Picken Hospitality website.
[Photo Saturday via @AnnV_Reilly]
Previously on EV Grieve:
Building that houses Odessa Cafe and Bar for sale on Avenue A
Former GM from Tribeca's Tiny's & the Bar Upstairs part of team to buy the Odessa Cafe
Reader report: Odessa Cafe and Bar will remain open through Sept. 6
Former Odessa Cafe and Bar will serve comfort food specializing in Nashville Hot Chicken
CB3 did not approve the 4 am closing they sought, I think it was approved for midnight weekdays and 2 am weekends (same as Empellon owner on the corner of A and St Marks, in former Sushi Lounge space).
ReplyDeletegreat another empty eyesore where there could have been life. story of manhattan real estate in the last 15 years.
ReplyDeleteSo many empty spaces...
ReplyDeleteThe guys behind this place are old neighborhood guys. Too bad that the rents the landlord is asking for can't possibly be reached at the closing hours determined by the CB3. Now it WILL be an expensive restaurant or schmancy cocktail bar that will last for 6 months that no one who actually lives here can afford.
ReplyDelete"DeRossi's company, whose other other local establishments include Death and Co., Amor Y Amargo, Mayahuel, the Bourgeois Pig, Gin Palace and Proletariat" - How are these neighborhood guys? Last I checked all of the above places are the fancy cocktail joints you are dreading. Furthermore thay are the brains behind the infamous Jane's Sweet Buns bait and switch. Geez - get your facts straight before you blame CB 3 at least.
ReplyDeleteIf I am not mistaken the new broker is Bob Perl. And after all it's his East Village. I believe he is know involved in nightlife with his partnership in Boulten and Watt (former Nice Guy Eddie's). I believe his firm is also responsible for several of the banks in the area. So my bet is this space will either be a "gastropub with an industrial vibe" or a bank. Whoever moves in will certainly be a sponsor of Bob's HOWL Festival this year.
ReplyDeleteFacts are straight. DeRossi was only one of people behind that application. There are other people involved in this specific business endeavor and they are from the neighborhood (long term residents of 30 years plus). They were at the CB3 meeting. And are people that you would recognize from the neighborhood. Probably for the best that they decided to pass on it. The rent is extremely high for such a small space.
ReplyDeleteFacts are facts - DeRossi is the dude who fronted Jane and her bakers to get a liquor license to open a beer bar on the overly saturated St. Marks place and was serving Gin on tap on Avenue A, something the SLA shut-down.
ReplyDelete@anon2:17 and there's also The Blind Barber and their party buses and what about the Duane Reade on First and ave you seen this bullshit?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.boweryboogie.com/2014/03/sla-changes-mind-awards-liquor-license-peter-poulakakos-146-bowery/
http://www.boweryboogie.com/2013/07/nimbys-rally-against-peter-poulakakos-nightlife-venture-at-146-bowery/
well what's not to understand about this guy. He's a landlord who bought residents out and destabilized apartments.
ReplyDeletehe's the broker to the lounges and restaurants of the LES. For chrissakes he's representing Ariel Palitz for the sale of Sutra Lounge.