If West 57th Road between Sixth and Seventh avenues exemplifies Manhattan’s regenerative power, the block east between Fifth and Sixth avenues stays a black gap of improvement ambition.
The 900-foot-long block — longer than three and a half midtown north-south blocks — seems to be gloomier yearly as landowners maintain out for magic-bullet combos of tenant commitments and building financing.
West of Bergdorf Goodman and the Crown Constructing stretches a procession of vacant tons, empty storefronts and scaffolding. A minimum of 4 monumental websites await exercise. Builders together with Vornado, Lefrak, Soloviev, and a minimum of one unknown outfit have saved their websites barren for years.
The newest blows to the block had been the closings of Brasserie 8 and a Half at Soloviev’s 9 West and Rue 57 on the western nook. The opening quickly of a small Abel Richard purses boutique at 7 West is greater than offset by massive retail vacancies on both facet of Nobu at 40 W. 57th and on the former areas of Mangia and different outlets and cafes.
Manhattan-based developer Sedesco, in the meantime, is demolishing a constructing to enlarge a web site it’s been assembling for greater than 10 years between 37-47 W. 57th St.
The supertall, mixed-use mission is to be designed by “starchitect” Rem Koolhaas’ OMA studio. It is going to probably re-energize its environment. However no building plans have but been filed with the Division of Buildings.
