There are 13 vendors listed, including some familiar EV names — Wafles & Dinges and Bobwhite Counter.
As previously noted, at least 25% of the food hall — via Urbanspace — is reserved for use by first-time entrepreneurs or start-up companies operating for less than four years.
The vendors occupy 10,000 square feet on the ground level with an outdoor patio. The Urbanspace website lists a December 2022 opening.
The 21-floor Zero Irving, developed jointly by the city's Economic Development Corp. and RAL Development Services, 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.
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 here at Irving Place.
Foundation work started here in August 2019.
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Nice, food halls are a great concept to help smaller operations get off the ground. Something for everyone.
It's a shame they leveled a historic appliance store just to erect a monument to greedy local businesses!
Regardless of how landmarking proceeds elsewhere in the district (and there are a lot of declared landmarks), I never saw anyone raise a notable concern about this site being occupied by this planned structure. I can't say that for all of the weird office/condo buildings going up...
A food hall will likely make the crowds at that 14th St. bus stop even worse than they already are.
ZERO Irving, indeed - this epitomizes "no sane planning" NYC and of course de Blasio's utter ineptitude. Maybe they can rename it as "Warren Wilhelm Hall" so it'll always be associated with him.
PC Richard's was of more use to people living nearby than this building ever will be. "Food court" = mall-ification of NYC.
Wasn't that where the Palladium used to be? Didn't they demolish that lovely space to put in the PC Richard? Am I wrong?
@10:40
The Palladium was to the east of the PC Richards property.
The Palladium is now the site of an NYU dorm... called Palladium Hall. 🙄
Oh that's right. Duh
We've come to a point where an ugly, squat building hosting an appliance store is claimed to be "historic". Are you kidding me? I'm guessing your candy wrappers are also historic?
Most of opposition evaporated when I read a Bobwhite Counter was going in… yum!!
NYU students will like this.
Waffles & Dinges = a modest silver lining.
But, yeah, that P.C. Richards building was not historic. Demolish it to put in affordable housing, there would've been no objections.
"It's a shame they leveled a "historic appliance store" just to erect a monument to greedy local businesses!"
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
I believe that 'historic appliance store' if memory serves me right was also a Newmark and Lewis Store also 'Historic"🤣
i miss Luchow's and Julian's
NOBODY said the PC Richard building was "historic" - what was stated was that PC Richard was of MORE USE to the ENTIRE community than Zero Irving will ever be.
You do understand how taxes work, right? If nothing else this building will generate more tax income for the city
Anon 3:28..Read the WHOLE Comments section:
Blogger Brian Van said...
It's a shame they leveled a historic appliance store
Yes affordable housing
Up until 1976 the "Palladium" was called The Academy of Music. That was its "name" for only 20 years. The original Academy was actually built across the street in 1852 but burnt down in 1886. It was built by the nouveau riche for the nouveau riche, but when the entertainment changed from opera to vaudeville the lower classes and peasants of the EV were the main audience.
Loved the Academy of Music and the Boxing Club that was upstairs.
So to recap, Zero Irving:
* Made good on their promise of housing a food court with local businesses and will give opportunities to start-up restaurants
* Will provide training and jobs to local residents (while generating taxes)
* Replaced an ugly, single-floor retail store that very likely would have been shuttered in the not-too-distant future (RIP big box retail)
So of course, the EVGrumps hate it! I could easily argue that a food court provides more value to the community than PC Richards. But, even without the food court, this place is going to teach and train locals to help them get high paying, highly sought after jobs in tech. As well as providing actual jobs in that same field. How on earth is this not a win for the community?
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