Real Estate

SPURA 42 years in the making: Hoping for more than parking lotsA CB3 committee planning the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) resumes deliberations Monday night with a "brainstorming" session about general design principles. This afternoon,...

Photograph for The Lo-Down by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis In the last several weeks, we have had a good deal of coverage about SPURA, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. For 40 years, the community has been haggling...

The before and after pictures tell the story. Residents of 112 Eldridge Street (between Broome and Grand) were living in terrible conditions. Walls had decayed, ceilings buckled, water could only be run in one unit at a time. But...

Last night CB3's economic development committee was briefed on three major neighborhood development projects: 710 East 9th Street: Loisaida, University Settlement and Phipps Houses are collaborating on housing for young adults (18-24), who have aged out of foster care or are homeless....

As explained in the post below, last month's CB3 meeting dealing with SPURA (the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area) became rather heated. At last night's committee meeting, it was cited by Committee Chair David McWater as one reason he...

Yesterday, affordable housing advocates and former tenants gathered at the corner of Delancey and Suffolk Streets to mark 42 years of inaction on the five city-owned parcels known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. The lots have remained...

We were amused by this gem in "The Villager's" gossip column: Don’t believe the blog hype? A Lower East Side blog charged that representatives of the Mayor’s Office recently “ducked out” of a Community Board 3 task force meeting on the development of the...

During the economic downturn, it has, of course, been commonplace to see shuttered businesses on the Lower East Side and in Chinatown. But a closing we heard about this week is especially significant. Sinotique, Jan Lee's antique, home...

As we mentioned this morning, Community Board 3 has now passed a resolution in support of the conversion of the stalled hotel project at 180 Ludlow into a residential building. A preliminary proposal was hammered out at last week's...

Lawyers representing developer Serge Hoyda went before Community Board 3 last night, outlining plans to convert 180 Ludlow, a stalled hotel project, into a residential building. In a wrenching decision for CB3's land use, zoning and housing committee, members...