How do you encourage businesses to move into retail space when you’re asking $1,200 a square foot? Show them how exquisite your store front could look!
Our Stuy Spys passed this retail space on 15th and First, (it’s been vacant ever since the trendy Foot Locker moved out 3 years ago), and noticed that the faux marble tiles are falling off the building. What’s even better is that management thought they could fix it, unnoticed, with green packing tape. Tres chic!
Falling tiles have been a major problem for local businesses on First Avenue where customers at Gracefully, Bruno Ravioli and Tasti D-Lite have been injured recently. When asked for comment Stuy Town Management said the buildings are supposed to shed their tiles. “Tenants should spend less time eating and more time working,” said Donalda Habershamm. “I mean, you know what we ask for rents, right?”
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Sky is Falling? Nope, Just More Shoddy Work at Stuy Town!
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Hoo boy, that's a lotta retail feet at $1,200/foot! And so, rather than drop the price to something that a retailer interested in turning some kind of profit could actually afford, management is wisely turning the humongous 3+ year vacant 15th Street falling-faux-marble-tile-fronted storefront into a luxurious new rental office. I imagine they'll need all that well appointed space to pack full of leasing agents intent on filling up all the empty apartments in Stuy Town and Peter Cooper (around 10%) with the kind of people willing to throw their hard earned money away on a "luxury" rental when they probably have the money to own.
While we're on the subject, let's take a moment to mourn the closing of yet another store on 1st ave pushed out by greedy TS landlords: Payless, you will be missed. Where else will my nanny go to shop for sensible shoes when she should be interacting with my toddler? I only hope these stores are replaced by something we as tenants really need. Another over-priced gym that gives no discount to residents, perhaps? Or how about a 24-hour exterminator service?
These falling tiles are surely signs of a slowly building catastrophe!
Does anybody else find it odd that the 34 tenants who were "accidentally" killed by the falling tiles were living in rent-stabilized apartments or illegal sublets?
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