Futurizing: Copping a look at the Copper Building residents

Well, now that those sheets have been removed from the corner floor-to-ceiling windows at the Copper Building on Avenue B and 13th Street, an EV Grieve reader comments (with disturbing enthusiasm), "I hope that they never get blinds. This could be our Standard Hotel!!"

Hmm, may give a whole new meaning to "granite countertops and high-end appliance packages."





Previously.

The ghost in you: Looking at 215 Ave. B

I continue to keep tabs on 215 Ave. B at 13th Street. I stop by and take photos every few weeks. This is how it looked Sunday afternoon.




Curbed has the details on the Copper Building, home once to the Roberto Clemente Center community clinic and, before that, a grocery store.

When I was taking these shots a month or so ago, this couple walked up behind me. The man, hipstery in his late 20s, says in my direction, "Who in the fuck would want to live there?" As if maybe I was taking photos as a potential buyer! Hey get your own blog!




No information just yet one how much one of the 17 units will cost (from studios to two bedrooms). But you will have prime views of the the Housing Authority's Campos Plaza just a few hundred feet due east...







Here's how it looked last Sept. 7.