Vice is not moving to the Navy Yard. They are consolidating on Kent Avenue, though – Refinery29 is subleasing its space on Broadway in Manhattan and has already moved (most of?) its people to the mothership in Williamsburg.
I guess Williamsburg is not dead.
This is a remarkably nice building. And in terms of urban design, there is just no comparison to everything that the 2005 rezoning wrought on the waterfront – taller, and thinner, is definitely better. Walking around this building is just a completely different experience than the super-block developments everywhere else.
From YIMBY, word that one portion of the Tops Supermarket has a date with a wrecking ball. The 4-story mixed-use building (part of the Lee portfolio), which looks like it dates to the 1860s or so, will be demolished to construct a smaller 2-story commercial structure.
Interesting that there is no residential play here – just commercial.
Racked assumes that there will be an Apple store, but gets the owner of Kings’ old space to g on record that it won’t be there.
As with Starbucks, if you repeat the Apple-store-is-coming-to-Williamsburg rumor often enough, someday it will come true.
Was the Bagel Store (and Corcoran, and the natural food store, and the vintage clothing store, and the pet food store) space warehoused to create a large retail space when Kings left? Absolutely. Will something big go there? Almost certainly. Will it be a high-end, national retailer? Ditto. Will it be an Apple store? Who knows? Anyone who does is tied down by a NDA three-inches thick. No matter what some random guy said to a clerk at a kitchen store a year ago, I tend to think not. Maybe he was just putting up a smoke screen for the inevitable Williams-Sonoma…
After almost 20 years of existential angst over the prospect of a Starbucks on Bedford Avenue, the Northside is finally getting its own chain coffee store. And in true Williamsburg 3.0 fashion, it will serve alcohol. Seems appropriate that the neighborhood’s first Starbucks is going into a former Superfund site, and that its coffee will be extra high octane.
Commenter #2 (AndyG) stole my line.
After a failed attempt at residential conversion, 74 Kent Street is in contract and likely to become commercial offices. More good news for a real mixed-use community.
Commercial development that is not hotels and not bars or bowling alleys seems to be becoming viable in the Bushwick Inlet IBZ.
[via NY Yimby]
After a good 15 years of rumors and fear mongering, is Starbucks finally coming to Williamsburg? If Eater is right, yes.
We’ll see, but for now, outlook good.
