Back on Friday, we reported that Gemini Rosemont Development will build an 11-story condoplex on three properties on the east side of Second Avenue between Second Street and Third Street.
Demolition permits were filed this past Thursday to take down the former La Salle annex at 38 Second Ave. at Second Street...
Gemini Rosemont paid more than $55 million for the three contiguous parcels, which include the former (as of July 2015) Church of the Nativity.
This project joins several others to sprout up along Second Avenue below Fourth Street in recent years...
... including 31-33 Second Ave., which received a gut renovation and three extra floors to become luxury rentals called Luxe East...
... and there's 32 E. First St. at the site of the former BP station... the condo units here include the still-available $8.7 million penthouse...
... and Jupiter 21 at First Street where Mars Bar used to be...
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... and coming soon to 14 Second Ave., the 10-story residential building — still in the foundation stage — called Treetops...
The development rush on Second Avenue, First Street and the Bowery got underway in 1997 when workers demolished the existing buildings to make way for the current Avalon Bowery Place complex... these shots by Steve Carter are on Second Avenue at First Street...
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