"Luxury Condos"
The former Mirons Furniture warehouse on East Second Street was billed some time ago as the venue for "luxury condos."As anyone who goes downtown knows, it never happened.
Today there were workers at the building and a Dumpster full of bricks could be seen inside. Given that the roof and many windows have been open to the elements for years, one wonders how viable the property is for redevelopment.
Now the property is on a list of projects proposed by developer Frank Cretella and is currently called "East Second Luxury Condos" with a planned occupancy of 12 residential units. Along with other variously-named Cretella projects, a total of 148 units are in the works. Plaintalker is tracking the projects' progress through the land use boards and will report results as they happen.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 8:03 PM
4 Comments:
Ahh, East Second luxury condos. Is the idea to build luxury condos, expect that people who can afford luxxury condos will move in, and then bring in commercial development that caters to them--spas, fine dining, high end clothing, wine bars, cheese shops, boutiques? I hate to be the one to have to tell the mayor this, but it doesn't work that way. What's across the street from the site now? Is there viable shopping and living? Does she project that it will be there in 2-3 years? I can't believe we're in for 4 more years of this. God help us.
Remember there is an election in November. We stil have a choice. Mine is not the mayor.
That "luxury condo" sign was there when the late Al McWilliams was mayor, and the building continued to deteriorate during his administration. If development rights have now been acquired by a genuine company, maybe something real and positive will happen. That sure has been a long time coming!
Wasn't Teppers going to be "luxury condos" when Mapp brought that developer in last time he was on the City Council?
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