BLDG Management is marketing 701 West 181st Street in northern Washington Heights as a development site, according to DNAinfo. The building once housed Manhattan’s oldest operating movie theater, which shuttered in 2011, and has since been filled with small retail tenants. The property allows for a 70,000 square-foot commercial building. Zelnik & Company Real Estate is marketing the site.
Merchants Hospitality and Maplewood Senior Living are co-developing a 29-story, 213,000 square-foot residential facility for seniors at the corner of 2nd Avenue and East 93rd Street, in northern Yorkville. According to the New York Post, the four- and five-story tenement buildings spanning the lots 1802-1810 2nd Avenue and 303-305 East 93rd Street were acquired for a total $111 million over the course of two years. The buildings are expected to be demolished.
The French government sold an eight-story brick townhouse at 1143 5th Avenue in the Upper East Side for the tidy sum of $36.4 million last November, and last week, the new owners filed applications to expand the building by five stories.
Chet Simunovich’s Eastern Allied Construction Co. has filed applications for a five-story, seven-unit residential building on the 16-foot-wide vacant lot at 558 West 161st Street, in southern Washington Heights. The building will measure 5,462 square feet in total, which works out to units averaging 780 square feet. Gerald Caliendo is the architect of record, and the NYC HDP demolished the property’s three-story predecessor in 2013.
Last week, YIMBY brought you an update on the Whole Foods rising on 125th Street in Harlem. Now we have a rendering for another commercial project on the bustling retail strip, a two-story building at 324 West 125th Street, on the corner of St Nicholas Avenue.
