☞ REVIVE: ACP Boulevard Slowly Develops

Out of all the major avenues in Central Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell/7th Avenue appears to have been the slower to develop than Lenox or FDB/8th Avenue.  The grand avenue blocks between 110th Street and 125th Street are mostly intact with distinct, early century buildings but new developments are far and few.  A condo conversion called the Morellino (above photo), has empty storefronts that now serve as popup galleries, was a possibility for better businesses to arrive when it was first established a few years back but nothing has materialized as of yet.

The blocks on ACP above 125th Street is another story altogether since the many former empty lots in the area made it ready for development several years back but not much has happened.  A large public housing complex just above 125th Street has made this area really just attractive only for rental buildings and the new condos that have been constructed  on the upper part of the boulevard are the only ones uptown that have not been successful.

With all that said, once 125th Street develops more and retail prices go up, new businesses might finally discover the charms of lower ACP.  We are not sure what the going rents are like for the storefronts but if the building owners make them more attractive than the other avenues in Harlem, then this iconic grand Harlem boulevard might finally catch up with FDB or Lenox Avenue.