Battery Maritime Building: Gourmet Marketplace Confirmed!

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Great news! Just was in Seattle and thought how New York could use the same sort of common space. Not sure if New York can pull this off though.

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Yes! What a great building. One of the design sketches for the creation of the East River Promenade shows the area in front of the BMB redone in a much more inviting, pedestrian friendly manner. Hopefully this will be completed at the same time as the market's installation.

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The problem is that the demographic using the adjacent SI Ferry terminal is quite a few notches lower than the demographic taking ferries between San Fran and Marin County. This project is going to be a failure, unless there is a massive increase in residential conversions in the immediate area.

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isn't this place separated from everything by the FDR?

5.

Great news, indeed. Nice to see a piece of history KEPT in this city, instead of bulldozed for luxury highrises, like South Street Seaport will be very soon.

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@3:

Wall Street people do eat, right? Or do they only eat puppies and small children?

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Seattle...what a perfect place for you GrandPa. No macho developers to worry about, no tall buildings to speak of, the perfect NIMBY headquarters for you to set up a new shop.

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I had been under the impression from a recent Crains article that this project was in some jeopardy / delay due to concerns by bidders over the progress of Governors Island and the current flow of residents/tourists to it (which is still low by some count).

Make no question that this project and Governors Island tie in together like a bow-tie on tux.

Nonetheless, when this happens, this will be a great project and will help the "Beavers" eat well in FiDi.

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"isn't this place separated from everything by the FDR?"

I don't care what Wall Streeters eat (@6), but unless they build a bridge, nobody from Wall Street is going over there.

#4 is correct. I go by this area frequently when biking to the West Side, and it's essentially on the FDR. The only way over there from Wall Street is a small, pedestrian-unfriendly pathway on the West side by the Staten Island Ferry or a _long_ walk from the direction of the South Street Seaport.

And the Staten Island Ferry side is still a hike from the business areas. ... Gmap Pedometer (www.gmap-pedometer.com/) says it's a mile round trip from Wall Street. If you go under the FDR, it's 1.1 miles round trip.

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Wall Streeters order in. It is a HUGE trek to get to this thing from ANYWHERE. Gourmet stores need huge traffic to justify all that fresh shit they display. Failure.

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I work less than a block from that structure and I can't wait to see what the Poulokakos clan will do there. They have had tremendous success with their outlets on Stone St (Adrienne's, Financier, and Ulysses) not to mention Gold St.

I also suspect that with the amount being bandied about there would be additonal work done to provide safe access to the building and maybe widen the sidewalk there.

12.

Wonderful news. I hope the food market comes out something like Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market.

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How about 3 ENOURMOUS lofts units. Water views, private dock, close to wall street. $75 Million-$125 Million each.