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Project: 115 Seventh Avenue



Some might not like this (what it could replace if built):

Bargain hunters were distraught when Loehmann’s shuttered their NYC locations two years ago. It perhaps hit hardest at their Chelsea location, at the northeast corner of 16th Street and Seventh Avenue. Later that year it was announced that upscale retailer Barney’s would be opening a five-level store in the space, which also happens to be the site where they were founded in 1923, and remained until 2007. Next door, at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 16th Street, also once part of Barney’s downtown flagship, 6sqft has uncovered a rendering showing a modern residential tower with a retail base that may replace the historic Romanesque-style building.

The existing 45,000-square-foot structure held part of the original Barney’s New York department store from 1923 until 1997. The Romanesque-style building, along with an adjacent building at 138-154 West 17th Street, was picked up by the Rubin Museum for $20 million, with the hopes of an expansion that never materialized. By mid-February, Barney’s will open a 55,000-square-foot flagship store adjacent to Ashkenazy’s site, inside the former address of Loehmann’s at 161 West 16th Street. The store will be designed by Steven Harris Architects and include five floors of retail space, a grand spiral staircase and a third-floor restaurant.

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