[EVG file photo]
On Tuesday, reps for the owners of 358 Bowery filed a work permit for this space on the southwest corner of the Bowery and Fourth Street.
The job description reads this way, in the all-caps style of the Department of Buildings:
REMOVE AND REPLACE ALL COMBUSTIBLE STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS WITH NON COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. CHANGE CONSTRUCTION CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDING FROM CLASS 3 NON-FIREPROOF (38 CODE) TO CLASS 1-E (1968 CODE).
Not the biggest breaking-news type of work order. What makes it interesting is the hint of future development on this corner that it offers: Prolific architect Morris Adjmi is listed as the applicant of record, per the DOB.
Adjmi's high-end residential projects in the neighborhood include 45 E. Seventh St., 363 Lafayette, 250 Bowery and 116 University Place. (He also designed the building that will eventually go up at 3 St. Mark's Place.)
As reported last fall, CB Developers paid $59.5 million for a stake in 358 Bowery — the current home of the B Bar & Grill. Hotelier Eric Goode, who owns B Bar, has been assembling air rights to build a larger project on this corner space.
This warehousing of parcels will likely also mean the end of B Bar & Grill, which opened in 1994. There aren't any announcements on the B Bar's website, though they are only taking reservations now through April 9.
Previously on EV Grieve:
CB Developers pay $59.5 million for an interest in 358 Bowery — current home of the B Bar & Grill and likely a new development
An oversized, loud, hotel with 3 nightclubs, mile long stretch of Ubers, what else could be coming?
ReplyDeleteSpaces languish empty for years and these people want to put up another building where the ground floor will be big empty windows for years to come.
ReplyDeleteI miss the old days of New York :(
ReplyDeleteSo tired of “I miss the old days of New York”
ReplyDelete"So tired of “I miss the old days of New York”" - said by someone who definitely was not here in the 1970s, 80s or early 90s, and thus has no point of reference against which to compare and contrast what is now with what was then. So tired of people like that.
ReplyDeleteLol, yeah. I do miss how the EV/LOS was from mid 90s to early 2000s, though. It was between two states of being. Bars were the social place. All those little clubs.That amazing shawarma place on Houston by Eldridge. It felt like summer for those years between the end of high school and college. But, yeah, it was pretty much a shithole for a while.
DeleteI even miss the 80s—and the 80s sucked.
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