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Originally Posted by Obadno
This one has actually been a slow burner for a LOOOOONG time. Just like toll brothers projects in midtown that finally took off. There was an old warehouse there, conveniently burnt down years ago.
Hopefully the movement with Toll will be more widespread its a major developer and they just land banked us for like 20 years until now, if they see rewards for urban development expect much more.
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Toll Brothers didn't bank that one for 20 years--although they did hold the midtown one from about 2007. They got the 5th ave lot within the last few years but stalled on it like they did everything else. I was annoyed as hell with this one and didn't think it'd ever move.
If you go to google streetview you can see a *very* old house on that lot, definitely a Territorial and predated the first sanborn maps of the 1890s i think. I emailed some preservationists but they didn't seem that interested in it in its last days. Lot of history on that whole parcel...completely obliterated now and lost until I get the bug to do a story on it one day.
I'd rather see some height where they could do it but these lots aren't in particular demand, especially on the west side of downtown. Definitely an improvement from that industrial garbage before, house or no house.