Current approved permits call for a seven-story, six-unit (condos!?) mixed-use building with ground-floor retail.
The plywood rendering lists a spring 2028 completion date.
The vacant parcel changed hands last summer in a $4 million sale. City records list the new owner as 891 Development LLC, whose address matches that of NADKOS, a general contracting firm with a portfolio concentrated in south Brooklyn.
The site has seen little visible progress in recent years despite development efforts.
In late 2022, the city granted partial approval for plans to build a six-story building with eight apartments and ground-floor retail, a proposal that had been winding its way through the DOB since May 2020. Those plans never moved forward.
An earlier proposal for a similar six-story, eight-unit building surfaced in 2017 but also failed to materialize.
As one of the last undeveloped lots in the East Village, the site has remained a curiosity (and trash heap) for years...
For more background, read the EVG post below...
Previously on EV Grieve:
• It took a court order to clean out the long-neglected 89 First Ave. lot (September 2021)
Housing housing housing!
ReplyDeleteManhattan is not made of rubber and most of NY state is empty.
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DeleteWill never be enough and this is luxury housing.
Great! 6 more multimillion dollar condos!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap. I thought this day would never arrive after living here for over 16 years. Good riddance to that ugly eyesore of space. Anything is better than nothing at this point.
ReplyDelete4 Million for that small narrow strip of land? That my friends is
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Sigh. Call me a dreamer but I always imagined a vest-pocket-park there like the one next to the Brant Foundation.
ReplyDeleteWhy don’t we get local resident passes for the community gardens? Make this (former) heap less desirable on a summer day
ReplyDeleteMore housing is great news especially on a long vacant lot. Anyone complaining about housing additions or space upstate should move to free up a housing unit. What ridiculous selfish nonsense
ReplyDeleteIt's not "housing" if it's merely luxury condos
DeleteDoesn't EV have a 6 floor max zoning or is that from by gone days?
ReplyDeleteSadly this shows every sign of being yet another generic box of a building, the sort already popping up around the neighborhood. They're kind of the modern day equivalent of tenements but for rich buyers/renters--designed to extract the max profit out of development with the cheapest passable building.
ReplyDeleteLux condos don't do anything to make housing affordable. The argument that more housing regardless if its lux or not will drive down the cost for the rest of us is a red herring. In order for supply and demand to drive down the cost of housing in this City we would need a million or more units. What we need is more affordable housing period, certainly not lux condos. Stop with the nonsense about moving.
ReplyDeleteMore housing absolutely in aggregate drives prices down whether it’s lux or not
DeleteGood grief. We can debate this topic until the cows come home. The most important thing to consider is how this space that has been standing idle for well over a decade is now being repositioned towards housing, which is something our community is desperately lacking. Perhaps affordable units will be offered. Let's try to think positively.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't approved before because of compromising structure of neighboring building. I'm not sure how they got around this. Building has not been allowed there for the 25 years I've lived here.
ReplyDeleteHousing yes, luxury housing NO!
ReplyDeleteFinally! Anything is better on this site than a weed-covered, garbage and rat attracting lot with an eyesore chain link fence. This apartments are going to be narrow and dark, but I’m sure someone will be interested
ReplyDeletethere used to zoning regulations in our hood but they have been dismissed because money is more important than integrity and having a peaceful existence. one zoning law was that you couldn’t have two bars within I believe 500 feet of each other. there was also a zoning law regarding the height of new buildings. well, you can see how jive these zoning laws are.
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