The plans for a mixed-use development at 180 Orchard Street reportedly are being revised and thelodownny.com states in an article today that the developer, Morris Platt, wants to develop it with two floors of retail beneath apartments and is longer interested in also including hotel units.
Construction of the project's two-story base started some time ago and the plan calls for a setback tower to rise about 24 stories. Ramy Issac of Issac & Stern Architects, P.C., is the architect.
The site runs through the block to Ludlow Street with a 128-foot frontage of Orchard Street and 30 feet of frontage of Ludlow Street. At one point, the project was going to have 356 hotel rooms, about, 13,836 square feet of retail space, a terraced bar on the second floor and a health club and outdoor pool on the 12th and 13th floors and a duplex restaurant on the 23rd and 24th floors. The building would also have a garage for 115 cars.
The Ludlow Street entrance is next door to Katz Deli.
A property listing last year for the site said that the property is "also a great condo conversion" and that a developer could alternatively "create 178 good size apartments in a building with lots of amenities."
According to article at thelodownny.com, Sion Misrahi, a retail broker handling the property, has said that the developer "now wants to make 180 Orchard 100-percent residential" as "banks aren't all that interested in financing hotel projects these days," adding that the developer "isn't about to proceed with a $60 million project" until negotiations with the Department of Buildings are resolved.
The Department of Buildings noted yesterday that there are "open issues" with the building permit.
The article said that Mr. Misrahi said it is assumed that opposition from Community Board 3 is what led the Department of Buildings to backtrack on the building's permit, but the article added the board "does not currently have 180 Orchard on its radar...and District Manager Susan Stetzer said there have been no recent conversations with the DOB about the building."
Community Board 3 voted recently to approve the sale of a city-owned lot at 302-4 East 2nd Street to Houston Dee Realty, which wants to build a 13-story apartment building on the site, which is on Avenue D at East Houston Street.
The proposed building would contain 166 rental apartments and according to a report by thelodownny.com 34 of them would be affordable.
The community board vote was 18 in favor and 11 against.
Construction of the project's two-story base started some time ago and the plan calls for a setback tower to rise about 24 stories. Ramy Issac of Issac & Stern Architects, P.C., is the architect.
The site runs through the block to Ludlow Street with a 128-foot frontage of Orchard Street and 30 feet of frontage of Ludlow Street. At one point, the project was going to have 356 hotel rooms, about, 13,836 square feet of retail space, a terraced bar on the second floor and a health club and outdoor pool on the 12th and 13th floors and a duplex restaurant on the 23rd and 24th floors. The building would also have a garage for 115 cars.
The Ludlow Street entrance is next door to Katz Deli.
A property listing last year for the site said that the property is "also a great condo conversion" and that a developer could alternatively "create 178 good size apartments in a building with lots of amenities."
According to article at thelodownny.com, Sion Misrahi, a retail broker handling the property, has said that the developer "now wants to make 180 Orchard 100-percent residential" as "banks aren't all that interested in financing hotel projects these days," adding that the developer "isn't about to proceed with a $60 million project" until negotiations with the Department of Buildings are resolved.
The Department of Buildings noted yesterday that there are "open issues" with the building permit.
The article said that Mr. Misrahi said it is assumed that opposition from Community Board 3 is what led the Department of Buildings to backtrack on the building's permit, but the article added the board "does not currently have 180 Orchard on its radar...and District Manager Susan Stetzer said there have been no recent conversations with the DOB about the building."
Community Board 3 voted recently to approve the sale of a city-owned lot at 302-4 East 2nd Street to Houston Dee Realty, which wants to build a 13-story apartment building on the site, which is on Avenue D at East Houston Street.
The proposed building would contain 166 rental apartments and according to a report by thelodownny.com 34 of them would be affordable.
The community board vote was 18 in favor and 11 against.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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