As we've noted (here and here, for instance) in the past few years, workers continue to poke around inside the long-empty lot at 89 First Ave. between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Yesterday, EVG reader Michael Hirsch spotted a crew taking more soil samples.
As you may recall, we heard a rumor in the fall of 2014 that there were preliminary plans in place to build a 7-floor residential building here.
There still aren't any permits on file with the DOB noting any new-building construction, though it's hard to imagine that a prime plot of land would stay vacant any longer in this day and age...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Will this long-empty lot on 1st Avenue yield to affordable housing?
Drilling and soil testing commences at the long-empty lot at 89 1st Ave.
I hope nothing happens there (Yeah, right)..That lot has been open and available for many decades and I loved seeing it that way.
ReplyDeleteThere's a construction barricade around the lot now, a temporary walkway, and a sign with a rendering of an 8-story building that will cantilever over the neighboring Rite-Aid drugstore.
ReplyDeleteSeems like it's beginning construction - I assumed it was a go.
That is a go for 75 1st Ave. ... this is one block to the north at No. 89
DeleteBuild baby build. I hate these filthy vacant lots and plywood walls.
ReplyDeleteThe lot owner Florence Toledano lives in a RENT CONTROLLED apt in my building. Anyone have any idea how and who to report this to? Hardly feels fair that a person who owns two vacant lots in the EV is subsidized.
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