Bowery Whole Foods
CBGB Will Become John Varvatos Boutique
The sprawl of 13,000 square feet on the Bowery that was once CBGB's has been leased, in whole or in part, not totally clear, by John Varvatos for a boutique!
Bill Popp, who played CBGB from 1981 until its closing last year, mourned the Bowery's turn for the purse.
"Now it's going to become a contrived type of store, with prices only for the yuppies who are taking over the neighborhood," he lamented.
The Round-Up: Friday
- 'I work at analyzing rat issues.' [NY Times]
- Realogy's chief ethics officer leaves over ethics lapse. [NY Post]
- Oh.My.God. New Bowery Whole Foods opens. [NY Post]
- Tenant-landlord dispute over Brooklyn Public Library site. [Daily News]
- More on Hotel Gansevoort billboards brouhaha. [Villager]
Did we miss any New York City real estate news this morning? Please send along tips and links.
The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday
- Budding blog emperor Lockhart Steele (best name in the biz) has started a site for "shopping, stores and the retail scene of New York City." And it's pretty cool so far--especially the sexy Bowery Whole Foods "shelf porn". [Racked]
- Ohio real estate has completely and magnificently crushed Manhattan real estate (at least in one instance): LeBron James' new 35,440-square-foot palace will have "a recording studio, a two-lane bowling alley, a casino, a 26-by 63-foot theater, a sports bar, an aquarium and a barbershop." Take that, Fifth Avenue. [Beacon Journal, via Luxist]
- Sadly, the LA-based studio Ball-Nogues has won MoMa/PS1 's 2007 Young Architects Competition. [The victorious installation "Liquid Sky" is above.] [Architectural Record News]
- The 100-mile voyage from NYC to the pre-Revolution village Kent, Conn., is apparently one of the Great American Drives. Why? It has to do with permeating "self-reliant Yankee spirit." [Travel + Leisure] - Max Abelson
