{"id":272,"date":"2004-10-15T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2004-10-15T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T07:15:59","slug":"i-knew-this-place-would-be-cool-someday-were-getting-a-whole-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"I knew this place would be cool someday — we’re getting a Whole Foods!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future of the remaining plots of undeveloped land in TriBeCa are becoming clear, even as the horizon above them will be occluded. Curbed notes<\/a> that the Daily News<\/cite> gives a roundup<\/a>
\non the status of Lots 5B and C (just south and west of P.S. 234 at the corner of Greenwich and Chambers Streets — follow the link, it has a useful map), as well as, what is it? Lot 25D or whatever, across the street in Battery Park City.<\/p>\n

If you are a reader of the Downtown Express<\/a><\/cite>, or a fan of this site<\/a>, you know there isn’t much new to be gleaned from the article, and, in fact, this should be a quiz in the form of an essay question where you identify the soft spots in the reporting. But since we’re all lazy thanks to the Google now, here are the answers:<\/p>\n

1. It doesn’t confirm that city settled on a sale price. Does this piece mean that the plans regarding height limits and funding (and size) of community center aren’t inked, making the Resnick property still in flux? Goldman is throwing in some pocket change<\/a> ($1 million) so it’s not like they<\/em> care if this goes through, they get to break ground next month. They were also building as of right<\/a>, and the only lingering problem was Brookfield had a nominal first refusal. But since Brookfield finally signed a new tenant to the WFC (the SEC — take that Silverstein! WTC7 remains pristine and unrented), and they are dumping properties elsewhere to marshall capital, that wasn’t much of a speed bump. We’re talking Goldman Sachs here.<\/p>\n

2. Now that Foster’s out, did Resnick find a local hack to trim back the plans, or are we all waiting in dread of some frosh new Kondylis masterpiece?<\/p>\n

3. Is anyone even pretending Minskoff organization is close to a shovel in the ground in this decade? They’ve got to identify a site for additional affordable housing downtown, the city has to acquire a site on the east side for a new school, which so far has resulted in a lot ‘piss-off’s by places like Pace and the Hospital (yeah, there’s a hospital over there; I can’t find the damn thing and I jog by there a couple times a week). Every other likely site is getting chewed up by monstrosities by Calatrava and Gehry. And<\/em> they have to find a ‘quality’ food purveyor, which is what happens when ‘community interest’ comes from a neighborhood where the only two traffic jams that happen with any regularity are car service back-ups in front of Chanterelle and Maclaren stollers in front of the latest kid-friendly store. And they say it just like that. They would say supermarket, but we already got one of those in the Food Emporium on Greenwich.<\/p>\n

So, aside from the confirmation of the GS tower, and that was never much in doubt, did the News<\/cite> brings us anything concrete? Maybe. Could just be they flubbed the follow up questions. We’ll wait for the next Downtown Express<\/cite> for confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The future of the remaining plots of undeveloped land in TriBeCa are becoming clear, even as the horizon above them will be occluded. Curbed notes that the Daily News gives a roundup on the status of Lots 5B and C (just south and west of P.S. 234 at the corner of Greenwich and Chambers Streets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}