The Battery Park City Authority wants to reimagine South End Avenue to improve traffic and ped flow as well as aesthetics. It is in the process of drafting an RFP now; next would come a design process with construction to start in 2020, according to the authority’s VP for real property in The Broadsheet.

RESIDENT NOW VP OF BPC
The Battery Park City Authority appointed Martha Gallo the vice president of its board. She has pushed for resiliency efforts and transparency, the Broadsheet says. Here’s her take on how the authority handled community input in the past: “I think the community issues have been about us getting it sort of ass backwards. Doing work and then telling them, ‘ta da! — this is what we’ve decided to do.’”

BIG LOAN FOR AC HOTEL
The AC New York Downtown hotel – the Marriott brand on Maiden Lane in the Seaport – landed on The Real Deal’s list of hugest loans in February. The group refinanced a $53 million construction loan to build the hotel.

HE’LL TAKE THE ODEON
The Post’s Steve Cuozzo votes for the burgers at the Odeon and the Square Diner over the ones at Au Cheval.

$89 PER SQUARE FOOT FOR COMMERCIAL
Not sure how to synthesize this, but plunking it down here for future reference. “Dorilton Capital Management, a private investment firm, has inked a deal to expand its Tribeca footprint to 35,500 square feet, Commercial Observer has learned. The firm signed a 10-year lease to take 26,000 square feet on the entire 26th floor of the Rudin family’s 32 Avenue of the Americas between Walker and Lispenard Streets, a spokeswoman for the landlord said. Asking rent was $89 per square foot.”

NEW CEO FOR SPRING PLACE
Forbes has an interview with Olivier Lordonnois, the new CEO of Spring Place – the club for fashion and media entrepreneurs/executives inside Spring Studios at Canal and Varick. Spring Place is attempting to expand the brand, hence the hire. “With over twenty years of experience as a leader in luxury hospitality, Lordnonnois is best known as the man behind The Mark Hotel with a resume that includes Hôtel de Crillon, Hôtel Ritz Paris, and Hôtel Costes.”

NEED BACKSTORY
The Trib has the usual long list of cell phone and Century 21 thefts in the police blotter, but I had to pause at the heist of 22 six-packs of Hershey chocolate bars from the Gristede’s on South End Avenue. S’mores anyone?? Before she left the scene, she pepper-sprayed the employees who tried to stop her.