Crain's has a followup story today on their original November article which details the city's efforts to take back an industrial West Harlem site which Citarella failed to develop for manufacturing purposes:
LINK. It's been a decade now since the luxury grocer cut a deal with the city to get a store started on 125th Street (which was accomplished) but the former bakery facility on the next block north never saw the revitalization promised. Seeing that the jobs never materialized, the EDC has recently offered up the 126th Street property to developers who can come up with another use for the facility and the application deadline will arrive on January 19th. It's not clear if anyone has applied yet but whoever arrives will have a lot of work ahead of them to get the abandoned factory up and going again. Check out our previous post for a photo of the site in question:
LINK. East Harlem has had quite a few bakery facilities arrive in the past couple of years so maybe West Harlem can get things started on the manufacturing end if the right partners come into the picture.
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