Developers filed the permits with the city this past Friday.
According to the paperwork, the proposed building — using the address 88 E. Second St. — will be 19,278 square feet, with 2,994 square feet designated for commercial space. Plans call for 22 residential units (likely rentals, given the square footage).
The filings list Manny Ashourzadeh of Romah Management Corp. as the owner (they also have a 13-floor building in the works on Fifth Street and Avenue D). Queens-based Gerry Caliendo is named as the architect of record.
Demolition permits were filed last summer, and some asbestos abatement taking place.
New Double Dragon, the last business in these buildings, closed last July. The basement was home to the HaveAHeart recording studio.
The First Avenue Laundry Center and the Serenity Spa upstairs were previous business casualties in these three buildings. The other retail spot had been various quick-serve places, last occupied in 2015.
An EVG reader shared this view of the three doomed buildings that will yield the new development...
A 7-floor residential building with ground-floor retail has the potential to fit nicely into character of the neighborhood and enhance the quality of the streetscape. I'd give about 10% odds of that happening, though. We're more likely to get a festering eyesore, in either the glassy-walled or the neo-prison style. Architects are sociopaths.
ReplyDeleteI hate that there putting commercials space on the ground floor only going to become a vandalized mess until they find someone to lease the space unfortunately they haven’t learned anything from any of the recent builds be be built and be destroyed with vandalism before they even rent the place out
ReplyDeleteah, "character" the cornerstone weasel-word of your local nimby.
ReplyDeletefun fact: brownstones were dismissed as modern and artificial during their time.