Rendering: Essex Crossing. ShoP Architects.
The story isn’t over by any means; it’s getting even more interesting. But for those of you who maybe weren’t completely engaged in the SPURA process the last few years and are in need of a little crash course, here it is. We’ve assembled links to 23 key Seward Park stories The Lo-Down has published since the middle of 2009. Enjoy!
Mayor Bloomberg announcing the development team of what will be called “Essex Crossing.”
A rendering of the proposed Broomes Street developments.
Essex Street at night.
Two people have been arrested following an assault at a property in Glen Street, Timaru last night.
Detective Senior Sergeant Richard Quested says Police were called to the address about 7.30pm and found a man with injuries to his hand, believed to have been caused by a sharp weapon.
Police have not yet found the weapon and ask anyone in the Glen Street, Ayr Street, Tweedie Park, Essex Street and Selwyn Street area to please check their property.
“We are also interested in sightings of a quad bike being ridden in the area at that time last night,” Senior Sergeant Quested says.
Lately, we’ve been talking about new arrivals at the Essex Street Market (bagels, ice cream and soup have been added to the retail mix). But pending legal proceedings there’s also a noteworthy departure to report; a merchant who’s been part of the market for 23 years.
Carmen Salvador at the Essex Street Market.
For the past couple of decades, Carmen Salvador has run Three Brothers Clothing from a small stall on the north end of the market. But her landlord, the city’s Economic Development Corp. (EDC) booted the longtime business at the end of September. Salvador turned to a local non-profit group, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) and to MFY Legal Services, which have been helping her fight the move in court; the two sides are scheduled to appear before a judge Thursday.
Rendering: Essex Crossing. SHoP Architects.
A year ago next week, a sweeping plan was unveiled to redevelop the former Seward Park urban renewal site adjacent to the Williamsburg Bridge, bringing one-thousand new apartments and 600,000 square feet of commercial space to the Lower East Side. Since that time, developers and architects have been hard at work to meet a spring 2015 deadline for groundbreaking on the first four parcels. For an update on their progress, we sat down recently with key members of Delancey Street Associates, the consortium created to build the project, known as Essex Crossing.
Charlie Bendit is co-CEO of Taconic Investment Partners, which along with L+M Partners and BFC Partners, was selected to create the nearly 2-million square foot complex. Isaac Henderson of L+M is the project manager. We met in a conference room ringed with conceptual drawings of Essex Crossing at L+M’s offices on Park Avenue South. Among the headlines from our interview: