The Prusik Group, BRP Companies, L+M Development Partners,
and Taconic Partners have signed a 28,000 s/f lease with Trader Joe’s in Harlem.
The popular grocery chain will join Target as the retail
anchors of the new $242 million Urban League Empowerment Center mixed used
development now under construction at 121 West 125th Street.
The 17-story Urban League Empowerment Center will house the
National Urban League’s headquarters and the state’s first civil rights museum
as well as 170 units of supportive and affordable housing for low-income New
Yorkers, 70,000 s/f of office space and nearly 90,000 s/f of retail.
Target already signed a lease for a new 44,000 s/f store and the office space tenants include several locally based non-profits, including the United Negro College Fund, 100 Black Men, Inc. and Jazzmobile. The project, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, is expected to be completed in 2023. Dabar Development Partners is the Owner’s Representative for the National
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Architecture for Change (ARCH), a newly launched nonprofit initiative dedicated to addressing systemic racism in the architecture and design industry, is kicking off with an online auction featuring donated works sketches, models, plans, photographic prints, and more from a host of notable architects including Sir David Adjaye, Daniel Libeskind, Michel Rojkind, David Rockwell, Jennifer Bonner, Trey Trahan, and others.
Net proceeds from the auction, which kicked off December 14 and finished December 20, will benefit the Desiree V. Cooper Memorial Fund, a scholarship for Black women architecture students established by the Architects Foundation in honor of the fund’s namesake, a Washington, D.C.-area architect who passed away in 2015. As noted by a press release from ARCH, Cooper, who was a Black woman, “is recognized for using her practice to improve and make long-lasting social change within communities.” African American women are wildly underrepresented in the architec
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Another cinema, with a two-story 4D screen and 169 seats, is being built on the other side of the aquarium and will open soon after the IMAX theater closes, aquarium spokesperson Dave Sigworth said.
The cinema at Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Conn., which features a six-story IMAX screen the largest in the state will close on Jan. 18 and be demolished to make way for a project to replace a 124-year-old railroad bridge, the aquarium has announced.
Another cinema, with a two-story 4D screen and 169 seats, is being built on the other side of the aquarium and will open soon after the IMAX theater closes, aquarium spokesperson Dave Sigworth said.