Retail for lease signs are now up at the former home of Blatt Billiards at 809 Broadway between East 11th Street and East 12th Street... the pool table manufacturer left its home of 90 years at the beginning of 2014. (The manufacturing portion of the building moved to New Jersey; there's a new showroom on West 38th Street.)
The 126-year-old loft building is getting a big glassy addition. But more on that in a sec. As for the retail component of the new structure, there isn't
much info per
RKF. A few details:
• Landlord to install new floor-to-ceiling glass storefront
• Situated in the heart of the NYU campus
• Non-cooking food uses permitted
A little rendering action...
No. 809 sold for $24 million last May. The new owners have big plans here,
as The Real Deal reported, by boosting the height of the 55-foot building to 199 feet —
adding 10 stories to the five-story structure.
Here is a shot of the building last week, pre-retail-for-lease signs ...
And here are the latest renderings via
Curbed on March 14 ...
Brace!
Per Curbed: "The new building will host offices on floors two through eight and just three condos — a full-floor unit, a duplex, and a triplex — on the top floors."
Will the units feature pool tables from Blatt?
Previously.