After some 13-months of post-demolition work at 500 E. 14th St., it appears as if the foundation is set here on the corner of Avenue A... as least that's what it looks like via the handy blogger portals in the plywood...
The pumps have been going 24/7 to dewater the property for Extell Development's two 7-floor retail-residential buildings. (A quick reminder: 500 E. 14th St. will have 106 residential units … while, further to the east, 524 E. 14th St. will house 44 residential units.)
As the developers at 432-438 E. 14th St. a block to the west have discovered, there are elevated groundwater levels and soft soil courtesy of an underground stream.
Anyway, Extell Lake seems to be a memory now at No. 500.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street
[Updated with correction] 8-lot parcel of East 14th Street primed for new development
New 7-floor buildings for East 14th Street include 150 residential units
Just wait until the bodies start bursting up through the lobby floors! Corpse city!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see progress (because the only thing worse than luxury development is indefinitely stalled/abandoned luxury development) but I swear I'm going to e-punch the first person who says they can't wait for Trader Joe's to move in. WE KNOW
ReplyDeleteI live two blocks south from this site and construction noise is full volume again. Of course sometimes I can't distinguish the noise from the racket coming from the 13th Street squat building in my backyard.
ReplyDeleteTrader Joe's is moving in? For real? Oh, boy!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Trader Joes... where one goes to announce to the world they can't pay full price for a can of garbanzo beans.
ReplyDeleteIn somewhat related 3rd Avenue news: Extell also bought the building on the corner of 34th St ,and 3rd Ave and will demolish it to put up luxury apartments. So thanks to Extell the neighborhood will lose a couple of local restaurants, La Giara, whch already closed, and Cinema 34, in exchange for yet another glass tower with a corner chain store. Meanwhile there is still no progress on the Rodeo Bar space which Phebes was supposedly taking over, The Lyric Diner on 22nd St is for rent, and Mumbles on 17th St is closed. But don't worry, Trader Joes is coming to the old Food Emporium on 32nd St. So you won't have to pay full price for garbanzo beans.
ReplyDelete@6:42, I will E-hold them while you E-punch...
ReplyDeleteIf you consider the average time one spend in at Trader Joe's check out line (not to mention the sometime line to get into the 14th street store) those garbanzo beans are $14 per can which I would rather spend of a celebrity chef bagel anytime!
ReplyDeleteNoisy pumps running since December...morons blowing air horns all day to signal the cement mixers...really hope the site floods :)
ReplyDeleteWhen do you think they will demolish the Chrysler Building or the Empire State! CONDOS!!!!!!!! for everybody on Planet Mirth.
ReplyDeleteHad you been following the news, this is Be Blasio's backroom plans. Albany is passing a bill that would allow zoning changes to our height limitations. A true gravy train for yet more development.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Thanks for the arrow.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinkin' this is, what, the near eastern slope of the EV Concrete Canyon topographical adjustment?
ReplyDeleteGonna need LOTS of arrows over the next few years.
Well they're using whistles today instead of air horns. A kinder gentler Extell :-)
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