Once a garage, now a rising condoplex on 9th Street

The former Little Man Parking garage (aka LaSalle Parking) at 220 E. Ninth St., between Second Avenue and Third Avenue, is steadily climbing toward its luxury future. 

As these photos from this week show, workers are now on the fourth floor of the conversion. (H/T EVG reader Terry Howell!)

The former craggly garage is being remade into an 18-unit condoplex billed as "blending classic Downtown loft architecture and industrial-chic details with modern luxury."

The Tribeca-inspired amenity list features a 24-hour attended lobby, sauna, fitness center with Pilates studio, pet-grooming station, and a Japanese-style garden. 

The garage closed in April 2023 after the Department of Buildings issued a vacate order on the property following the deadly collapse at the Little Man garage on Ann Street in the Financial District. 

The address was offered as a "redevelopment project" in August 2023. 

 Budget Car Rental and Tori-Bien, a restaurant that specialized in Japanese fried chicken, were also forced to leave their retail spaces at this address. 

Our previous post has renderings of the new building.

And it's another reminder that the ongoing conversion of neighborhood workaday spaces into luxury housing isn't a fad.