• 1 St Mark's Place
A 10-story office building with ground floor retail is in the foundation stages at 1 St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue (see above). Find more background here.
• 360 Bowery
Foundation work continues on the 21-floor office building coming to 360 Bowery at Fourth Street — the corner space that once housed the B-Bar & Grill. Find more background here.
• 42-46 Second Ave.
An 11-floor mixed-use building is planned for this former three-building parcel on Second Avenue between Second Street and Third Street. Work hasn't commenced on the lot just yet. Find more background here.
• 280 E. Houston St.
An 11-floor residential building with ground floor retails is now slated for 280 E. Houston St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. Workers have been spotted on the property in recent weeks. Find more background here.
Oh boy. Really triggering the comment wars today! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing to see how much the East Village, and downtown in general, have changed just in the last ten years. When I look back from the mid 70's to the mid 80's, the pace of development took much longer due to NY's financial problems.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, change hits like tidal a wave, for better and for worse, but always evolving just the same.
At this point, if a tower is going to be built anywhere, but especially in this area (which seems to be inevitable), it should be residential. New on-spec office buildings are just a bad idea and they'll likely have to be converted to residential anyway.
ReplyDeleteNice to see progress. Looking forward to all the new friends this will bring us!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bro!!!!! Lol!!!!!
DeleteGREAT! We need commercial space in this area too. The idea of converting older office buildings to affordable housing is NEVER going to happen. The majority of the older commercial buildings have a life span of 100 years due to the concrete used to build them. It would be better to rezone those buildings to residential, tear them down and build a proper residential building from the ground up that can house more people.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone need office space ???
ReplyDeleteEven with all these office buildings, they still need small businesses where people can shop and dine.
ReplyDeleteDoesn’t seem like much is happening at these sites the on 42-46 second Avenue don’t seem like any work is being done but on the sight on Houston and second only feels like a couple of months and it is done
ReplyDeleteI don’t understand the need for more offices when a lot of companies have either cut their office spaces or just sold them to work remotely.
ReplyDeleteDon’t forget 644 East 14th Street (corner of C, former site of Straus Auto Parts). They made a deal last spring to buy air rights from NYCHA (Campos Plaza) and build a 25 story residential building with some “affordable” units. The site remains dormant to the naked eye and I wonder what is going on. Did NYCHA get its money?
ReplyDeleteIsn't our neighborhood a historic landmark neighborhood. I thought new construction of buildings were capped at 6 stories.
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