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Essex Crossing Site 2; view from the intersection of Delancey and Essex streets. Credit: Handel Architects.
Tonight at University Settlement’s Houston Street Center, developers of Essex Crossing are unveiling their designs for the first four buildings of the large residential and commercial project coming to the former Seward Park urban renewal site.
Thanks to a press briefing held earlier today, we’re able to bring you a condensed version of what members of the public are seeing this evening. Delancey Street Associates, the consortium building the nearly 2-million sq. ft. project, asked us to wait until the meeting of Community Board 3’s land use committee got underway before we published the renderings you see here.
The Drilling Company’s Shakespeare in the Parking Lot opens the season with “Twelfth Night” on July 10. Photo by Claire Taddei.
The Drilling Company kicks off its ninth and final season of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot July 10 with a production of “Twelfth Night.” After performing in the parking lot at Ludlow and Broome Streets since 2005, the company is seeking a new home for its summer franchise: the lot is set to be demolished next year to make way for the New York annex of the Andy Warhol Museum, part of the Essex Crossing development.
On the eve of its last season in its original location, Hamilton Clancy, The Drilling Company’s artistic director, says he’s committed to keeping the franchise in the neighborhood and is working with the LES BID to find a new location. “The Lower East Side is so cosmopolitan and such a novel corner of New York and it’s also not snobbish. It’s one of the last bastions of the real New York and it’s been one of the last great
Rendering: Warhol Museum.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Warhol Museum has dropped plans to establish an annex on the Lower East Side as part of the Essex Crossing development project:
Eric Shiner, director of The Warhol, said in a statement Friday night that “The Andy Warhol Museum, which had been exploring its participation in the Essex Crossing development in lower Manhattan, has determined that it will not proceed with the project. Despite the efforts of both the museum and the developers, an internal study of business and other operational considerations led the museum to this decision. “The Warhol will continue to participate in programs, exhibitions, and special projects in New York City through its longstanding collaborations with a variety of New York-based arts organizations.”
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: