Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on December 6th, 2014 Victor Homes and Michael Shvo revealed the Peter Marino-designed building located at the old Getty Station site at 24th Street and Tenth Avenue (239 Tenth Avenue) in West Chelsea, New York at Design Miami as part of the Art Basel fanfare, which naturally had… [Read More]
WEST CHELSEA RIVERFRONT SITE SELLS FOR $ 714/sf
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on February 2nd, 2014 The Atlantic Foundation, a nonprofit funding group founded by an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, has sold a development site at 540 West 21st Street in West Chelsea for $50 million, or about $714/sf to Casco Development Corp, which is controlled by a foreign real estate investor… [Read More]
THE SHVLAWN COMES TO WEST CHELSEA
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 9th, 2013 The Shvo SHVEDGE on West Chelsea’s uber-block on West 24th street has come down to reveal a fence and lawn….or SHVLAWN! What’s next? And how much more money will be spent on marketing even before this building is designed?
SHVO NO: ANOTHER GAS STATION SHUTS DOWN IN MANHATTAN!
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on August 12th, 2013 The Getty/Lukoil gas station at the corner of Tenth Avenue and 24th street is no more: sad-faced cab drivers were seen driving away from the site that for decades had been a re-fueling stop as the building prepares itself to be demolished to make way for Michael… [Read More]
KARDASHIAN POPULARITY OR REAL SUBSTANCE?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 22, 2012 With Newt Gingrich’s remarkable surge in the South Carolina caucuses, I have to ask the following question: did he win on substance, or on the soundbite mentality that has overtaken our society? Is Newt really more qualified to be president than Mitt Romney? What exactly in Thursday’s… [Read More]