The 40-year-old Plantworks at 28. E. Fourth St. between the Bowery and Lafayette closed for business in May, and the adjacent garden center shuttered last month.
Now Curbed has the scoop what's coming next:
NYU, which leased the lot to the garden center, wants to do a massive renovation of its Academic Support Center at 383 Lafayette Street and expand it into the East 4th Street lot.
The expanded building will rise 4 floors on the former Garden Center property.
[Rendering photo by Evan Bindelglass via Curbed]
The Landmarks Preservation Commission heard the pitch for the renovated 383 Lafayette building (previously home to Tower Video) and annex yesterday.
And their reaction?
New LPC chair Meenakshi Srinivasan said there was much that was positive about the proposal and that restoration and enlargement of the existing building would be "helpful" to the area.
The LPC was reportedly close to approving the project, but asked for a few modifications.
This stretch of East Fourth Street will be active again with construction, with NYU and the new 8-floor hotel to rise next to the Merchant's House Museum.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Plantworks 'probably closing and not moving'
