We walked by the affordable rental development called the Balton (which is located on St. Nicholas Avenue, between 127th and 128th Street) this past weekend and saw that construction was progressing along nicely. It was only four weeks ago when the first level started coming together at the base of the building and now the development is up to its fifth floor. There's about seven more levels to go so it probably will be the end of spring before the full height will be realized. As mentioned before, this parcel of land was the one of the last, extremely large, glaringly open lots remaining on the side avenues of Harlem and this corner of the nabe will really have major changes once the ground floor retail opens up in the new building. Check out the previous posts to see the initial open lot at this site: LINK. Photos by Ulysses. www.thebalton.com or www.douglassparknyc.com
Monday, April 5, 2010
☞ REVIVE: The Balton Momentum Continues
We walked by the affordable rental development called the Balton (which is located on St. Nicholas Avenue, between 127th and 128th Street) this past weekend and saw that construction was progressing along nicely. It was only four weeks ago when the first level started coming together at the base of the building and now the development is up to its fifth floor. There's about seven more levels to go so it probably will be the end of spring before the full height will be realized. As mentioned before, this parcel of land was the one of the last, extremely large, glaringly open lots remaining on the side avenues of Harlem and this corner of the nabe will really have major changes once the ground floor retail opens up in the new building. Check out the previous posts to see the initial open lot at this site: LINK. Photos by Ulysses. www.thebalton.com or www.douglassparknyc.com
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Hopefully this will encourage some action on the south side of 127th Street there too-- the 2 vacant, bricked up buildings there (I believe they'd be 310 and 308) are an eyesore, strewn with rotting garbage around their stoops. And the southeast corner of 127 and St Nick is still a vacant lot as well... would be such an opportunity, right in front of the entrance to the A/D/B/C!
ReplyDeleteThat express train entrance is a major one. It's surprising it took this long for a major development to open up on this corner. Once the building finishes up, that entire undeveloped south side should change over quickly (in our humble opinion).
ReplyDeleteThe vacant lot on 125th and Lenox, Madison Ave and 127th , 125th and Park Ave and many more along Park Avenue need to get developed. Their development is way overdue.
ReplyDeleteI agree that development here is overdue, but that building is hideous. Looks like some architect used google sketchup to make a box and put some windows on it. Its going to look ridiculous next to detailed harlem architecture.
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