Most of the construction netting and the sidewalk bridge were recently removed...
The Chicago-based Polish National Alliance was the previous owner of No. 180. The building housed the Józef Pilsudski Institute of America, the largest Polish-American research institution specializing in the recent history of Poland and Central Eastern Europe. (They found a new home in Greenpoint.) According to public records, an LLC bought the building for $6.75 million in June 2014. City Realty listed the new owner as Robert Stern.
Approved work permits show that workers are converting the building to residential use and adding two floors — from five to seven — in the process ... with one residential unit on each floor.
As previously reported, dating to June 2017, the building was designed to earn LEED Platinum and Passive House certification, complete with a green roof with solar hot water panels for each residential unit.
As for the ground-floor retail space, the Ninth Ward was the previous tenant. That New Orleans-themed bar closed in February 2016. The Ninth Ward was said to return to this space after the gut renovations, but that was in mid-2017.
The updated rendering now shows a December 2023 completion date.
Previously on EV Grieve:
9 comments:
No matter when they "complete" this place, it will always be ugly and out-of-place. It sticks out like a sore thumb.
It will be a happy day for Pangea when this construction is done. Go have dinner and see a show at one of the best places in the neighborhood!
How was this building permitted to jut out onto the sidewalk like that?
@ 8:03 exactly
When will this monstrosity be finished? The workers' trucks regularly make the bike lane a health risk
This is the reality of things. I don't understand why people are flummoxed by the change of landscape over time.
@8:09pm: What is it that you don't understand? That people are flummoxed by what you call "change in landscape over time" - which really means they are flummoxed/astonished it takes 7 YEARS to add 2 floors to a building, or is it that you don't comprehend that people are unhappy about a building that's permitted (for whatever reason) to stick out far beyond the facades of every other building on that block?
IMO, the whole thing screams incompetence and (likely) pay-offs to the "right people". And THAT is something we all can understand.
When is 9th ward coming back?
I have some wooden coins that need redeeming…
It's been an egregious bike lane detour for so long, and it's sad to see more luxury development that will lead to future displacement, BUT: Passive House construction is definitely a good thing and should be adopted much more widely.
@1:26PM: I imagine a lot of what you call "passive house" construction is undone when creating that takes 7 years to complete. IMO, this is in the category of someone like Leonardo diCaprio flying on a private jet to receive an award for championing climate change.
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