The Mobil station on Avenue C and East Houston closed on Sept. 2, 2014 ... and now some 18 months later, the demolition permits for the structure have finally been filed. (Workers removed the underground tanks at the end of 2014.)
There are plans, as you know, in the works for a 10-story retail-residential building here. However, the project is awaiting the city's blessing. Nothing recent has happened with the application, which the DOB disapproved in April 2014 for incomplete drawings, per city records.
Yesterday, in our recap of the new residential developments popping up along the East Houston corridor (horridor, per Giovanni!)... we had an older rendering for what's in store for this lot, aka 11 Avenue C/350 E. Houston St.
Here are some updated renderings via the architect of record, Rotwein + Blake:
And here's the description of the property, per the Rotwein + Blake site:
Located on the prominent junction of Houston, 2nd Street and Avenue C in the East Village. The narrow triangular site, presented numerous challenges from its odd shape to zoning constraints, Rotwein+Blake crafted a well thought-out solution to maximize potential development opportunity for the client. At ten stories, the building will have 4,600 SF of ground level retail, 46 residential apartments and a landscaped roof terrace.
The buildings retail component engages the more lively Houston Street side on a pedestrian level, with an abundance of storefront glass, awnings and stone details, while the residential entrance on 2nd Street, creates a more private and embracing gesture. The brick and zinc façade blend a modern twist to a historic warehouse style, reminiscent of the now, chic residential adaptive reuse projects of Soho and Tribeca.
Well, sure sounds like a more private and embracing gesture.
But will the new building have a Styrofoam® park...
... or outdoor cafe ...
... fishing hole...
... or hanging severed legs at xmas time like the abandoned Mobil?
Previously on EV Grieve:
You have a little longer to get gas on Avenue C
Plans filed for new 9-story building at site of Mobil station on East Houston and Avenue C
State seizes Mobil station on Avenue C and Houston for nonpayment of taxes
New residential building for former Mobil station lot will be 10 floors with 0 zero affordable units
A look inside the last East Village gas station
11 comments:
I'm partial to the warehouse look, but really guys nothing beats the homegrown aesthetic pictured above. Now that's authentic.
But seriously, developers, when are you giving back? We have an overload of residences, but less and less amenities, both public, semi-private, and private, catering to the neighborhood. Where is DeBlasio working out -- not just the ratio to the bogus exclusionary low income apartments -- but the crucial ratio that needs to be mandated by the city in providing the amenities that are needed with the crushing influx of luxury housing that only drain and strain our public infrastructure more and more.
Real estate developers do nothing to provide, or subsidize, such amenities. And that should change. It's killing our neighborhood.
What 7:41 said. Thanks!
That is going to be the fanciest looking gas station yet when they are finished!
Robert Moses is responsible for making E Houston the semi Avenue it is today when he torn down everything from Broadway to the east river to make it more car friendly. I bet he never would have guess that "lifestyle warehouses with amenities" would be built here someday.
@7:41 AM - What are the amenities that you feel are missing?
@9:34 - Don't want to defend Robert Moses (although he must have had some good qualities. Maybe he loved his dog, for example). But I thought that Houston Street was widened when the built the El - they had to rip down a bunch of buildings on the south side of the street.
And I see we remain mired in the cutting -edge-of-crap Gulag Period of NYC NON-Architecture.
It's CRAPTACULAR!
AND there's a new bar/club or something opening up any day now on the NE corner of E 2nd St and Ave C.
I live within spitting distance of it and the former gas station. What it now a quiet, douche-free zone with a true neighborhood vibe will certainly become one. THANKS ASSHOLES!!!
"prominent injunction" - ha - if this far east and lot is prominent, I'd love to hear their adjective to describe actual prominent injunctions.
They are fitting 46 apartments on that little lot?!?!?!? Yikes....
Yay! more glass towers for the uber rich! more $5000-$8000 a month rents that no one real can afford... everything is created by and for the wealthiest people. How wonderful!
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