The building approved by the Landmarks Commission for 31-35 Lispenard in 2019 now has a new look (and a new owner) and is before the Landmarks Commission once again. This is the former Westside Coffee Shop corner, on Church one block south of Canal.

Plans were initially approved for a seven-story residential building in 2019; the site was sold again in December and is now owned by SilverLining Development, an affiliate company of SilverLining Inc., a construction company based on the Upper West Side that for four decades has been building projects here and in Miami and LA. And, SilverLining Development is led by Tribecan Aden Wiener.

It is the SilverLining plan for an eight-story building that is now in front of Landmarks.

It looks like there will be a total of 19 rental units: The second and third floors will have four units: two studios, a one-bedroom and a two-bedroom; the fourth, fifth and sixth floors will have two one-bedrooms and one two-bedroom; the seventh and eighth floors will have two duplexes. The ground floor will have commercial. The new materials are metal panels, shown in graphite, with granite details at the base. Their example for color was 93 Reade, the home of Greenwich St. Jewelers.

They bought development rights from the four-story building just north on Church — with the former Saluggi on the ground floor.

To recap: Peter Matera sold the two buildings to Urban Standard Capital in 2015; that company’s plans were approve in 2019 but never built. Both the Westside Coffeeshop and Ilya the barber closed in fall 2024; Ilya, aka Leo, recently moved into his own space at Broadway and Worth.

The building was never a contributor to the historic character of the Tribeca East Historic District, which it is in. This from the designation report:

No. 35 LISPENARD STREET between Broadway & Church Street
This one-story, twenty-five-foot wide small commercial structure is located near the Church Street end of the block. An alteration executed in 1954-56 by Mac L. Reiser for Benjamin Hochman, demolished the two upper stories of a brick building previously occupied by merchants of cloaks and suits; the structure had been converted to accommodate a boarding house and later a ground-story saloon with storage and factory spaces above. The current facade, sheathed in marble, is the result of an alteration applied for in 1969 but not completed until 1991. During the 1960s, a retail store occupied the building; it was replaced by a restaurant.