... providing a near-complete look at the building, developed jointly by the city's Economic Development Corp. and RAL Development Services ... which will feature 14 floors of market-rate office space as well as a technology training center, co-working and event spaces on the seven floors beneath. Urbanspace will operate a food hall on the ground level.
Per the Zero Irving website:
Zero Irving is more than a trophy-class office building, it’s an ecosystem ideally engineered to foster growth, flexibility, productivity, and the evolution of new ideas in Manhattan’s ultimate live/work neighborhood.
Zero Irving has reportedly signed several full-floor deals recently, including data analytics software company Sigma Computing Inc. on the ninth floor and B2B payments platform Melio on the 15th and 16th floors. And most recently: Laurel Road, a digital banking platform and brand of KeyBank, leased space for offices on the 11th floor.
Long contested by local preservationists and community groups, the new building sits on the former site of a P.C. Richard & Son on city-owned property.
Foundation work started here in August 2019.
Much better use of that land than a one story building. As I am sure people will rightfully say, it probably would have been better as housing but at least it's leasing up and presumably will drive foot traffic...
ReplyDeleteI finally got to walk directly in-front of D'Assio's Monstrosity instead of walking onto 14th street through the narrow passageway on Saturday!!! Big NEWS after 3 years of this BS.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous. I love how the building reflects the essence of the city. Just perfect.
ReplyDeleteAnother candidate for the upcoming commercial real estate crash. Adding office space does absolute zero to improve quality of life or help this city. Absolutely should have been housing. We definitely don’t have an office space shortage. Heck 90% of ground floor commercial space is empty across the city. These full lease renters are startups with VC cash to burn. They will be acquired in a few years and you’ll never hear of them again and this place will sit empty.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a full lease renter lolz? Also, not sure why you think they’re startups….wrong….
DeletePlease don't forget Carlina Rivera cast the deciding vote to allow the developer to add additional floors onto the original plans for this building. What her vote was in reality was a permanent change to the zoning height for this neighborhood meaning out of scale development and the developer wet dream of "mid-town south". More of our tax dollars going to subsidize office towers, which block sunlight, increase traffic to our blocks. This in turn raises rent, encourage more luxury housing and the displacement of working class people. Remember this in the upcoming election. Stop Rivera from reaching a higher office in our government and bringing more benefits to the wealthy and misery to the rest of us,
ReplyDeleteYes, it should have been housing, not this bland slab of 70s ugliness.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the demand for this kind of downtown office space? Essex Crossing's office (and street-level commercial, outside of the Market) space still sits mostly empty.
"Stop Rivera from reaching a higher office in our government and bringing more benefits to the wealthy and misery to the rest of us"
ReplyDeleteThank you. Well said.
"Market rate office space" - HA! Someone please tell me exactly what "market rate" is these days when there's a huge glut of office space throughout Manhattan.
ReplyDeleteThis building should be renamed "DeBlasio's Folly".
An ecosystem? Looks more like an ice cube tray.
ReplyDeletePer Sarah @11.29 I'm really hoping 70s idea free sheer wall commercial high rise design isn't going to be a trend.
If someone has the time and energey we should start the process to get that block renamed, "Carlina Rivera Alley" or "Carlina Rivera Gutterway"
ReplyDeleteso more tech workers who'll want to live close to work driving up residential rents in the nabe this def could have been housing or at least had some housing in the complex and many stories shorter say it like a mantra MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW!
ReplyDeleteMore dead birds waiting to happen. They should have used quicksand for the foundation for this horrible structure.
ReplyDeleteThis isn’t architecture, it’s a pathetic formula of a building with only the purest goal in mind: maximizing profit.
ReplyDeleteThe current "reveal" confirms that the name "Zero" is appropriate. Zero coherence, zero relationship to anything in the neighborhood, zero need for this place to have ever existed (PC Richard at least was useful to the people living around here).
ReplyDeleteThe "architecture" consists of the special emptiness that only acres of glaring glass can provide. It's devoid of graciousness or beauty. A blight on the neighborhood, IMO (and in that sense, it's a monument to all the mindless $#&% DeBlasio inflicted on NYC). Let Zero always remind us of DeBlasio and his shifty ways.
I could be wrong, but all that flat surface probably contributes to the noise level. Why do new buildings have to be so boring? So many of the humblest—and yes, cheaply built—tenements have more surface interest and variety and individuality (including names) than one glass box that looks like the next glass box that looks like the next glass box ad infinitum.
ReplyDeleteAll I see is Zero Living.
ReplyDeleteZero charm. Zero beauty. Zero benefit. Zero interest.
ReplyDeleteSo the Anti-Carlina Coalition would rather lat Dan Goldman and his Wall Street buddies buy the race, even after he said to a reporter he does not support abortion rights, only to be corrected by one of his handlers? If Goldman cant even answer a question about abortion rights without waffling, what do you expect him to do about tenant rights in the EV when he has big money bankers and lawyers backing him?
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