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In the News: More pleas to save 60 Wall lobby
MORE PLEAS TO SAVE 60 WALL LOBBY
New York magazine weighs in on the impending remodel of the lobby of 60 Wall, with the hope that the developer will reconsider: “This privately owned public space, or POPS, is exuberant, a little ridiculous, and threatened with a deadening renovation. The Paramount Group real-estate trust, the building’s newish owner, has declared its intention to rip out the 1989 Kevin Roche treatment and Apple Store–ify it into plain white submission.”
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DIRTY LEMON FOUNDER SUED BY BUILDING
The founder of Dirty Lemon, the high-end juice company that also operates a party space at 293 Church, is being sued by the building for unpaid rent, Crain’s reports. From Crain’s: “The owners claim Normandin owes more than $300,000 in unpaid rent at the buildings, court records show, including missed rent for Normandin’s apartment upstairs. This year the owners, a limited liability company, also sued to evict Normandin from the two spaces. He did, however, pay $17,000 in back rent earlier this year.” He was also sued by neighbors this past November.
EATALY IS ACQUIRED BY EUROPEAN INVESTMENT GROUP
Crain’s reports that Eataly, which has the location at the WTC as well as the Flatiron, is now (or almost, once the deal closes) majority owned by a European investment group called Investindustrial. The deal will allow Eataly to retire debt and expand, according to a news release.
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The lobby of 60 Wall is and always has been one of THE UGLIEST atriums in the city! They can’t tear this out fast enough for me. It is astounding what some people deem worthy of saving.
I wholeheartedly disagree. It is a palmed oasis one least expects in narrow grey Wall Street.
New York’s preservation groups and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) support the review of Roche and Dinkeloo’s Postmodern tower at 60 Wall Street for landmarking.
The LPC voted for the second time against the proposed revisions to 60 Wall Street. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPiEl0V29k)
“But even when it was new, the atrium had detractors. In 1990, New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger described it as ‘a cloying mix of white marble, lots of trelliswork, mirrors and marble grids’ and wrote that ‘the overall effect is oddly frilly, almost feminine, like an ice-cream parlor blown up to monumental scale.’ ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/nyregion/60-wall-street-historic-preservation.html