July 27, 2016 Arts & Culture, Community News, Real Estate, Restaurant/Bar News, Shopping
••• Mystery solved: The new tenant at 102 Franklin (All Good Things) is the Swiss Institute, which is opening a temporary project space (Swiss In situ) while it searches for a permanent home. It had recently been on Wooster (above; photo courtesy Artspace). —ArtNews
••• CB1 passed a resolution against the move of the Sphere sculpture to Liberty Park, because it wants to keep the park for locals. Related: Horse left barn. —Broadsheet
••• Bebe isn’t the only company to pull out of its plans to open at the Westfield World Trade Center mall: Fika, Dune London, and True Religion have also reconsidered. —Real Deal
••• Black Tap is mulling a location at 177 Ludlow—maybe it’ll take some pressure off the one on Broome, so I can enjoy that falafel burger again. (It’s overrun with people waiting in line for those monstrous milkshakes.) —Eater
••• The owners of China Blue are opening a restaurant in Williamsburg. —Commercial Observer
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It’s important to add context to the WTC story. The grand total square footage of the 4 stores that have pulled out are 6,000 out of a total of 365,000 sf of space; less than 2%. It is otherwise 100% leased.