I really hope whatever building ends up going in at this corner has a retail/commercial component. Giving multiple street-level businesses the boot and not replacing the commercial activity would not be good for that corner.
Revised CDR Submission is up for this one for October 5th. 1107 Walnut is being demolished. 18 stories. 199 feet. 198 units. 4,420 sq. ft. of ground floor commercial spaces. 68 bike stalls. 34 off-site parking spaces
Revised CDR Submission is up for this one for October 5th. 1107 Walnut is being demolished. 18 stories. 199 feet. 198 units. 4,420 sq. ft. of ground floor commercial spaces. 68 bike stalls. 34 off-site parking spaces
We've known for some time that 1105 & 1107 Walnut would be toast. The good news in this iteration — which was presented to the Washington Square West Civic Association a while ago — is that 138 and 140 S. 11th St will not be lost to demolition after all, as had been planned in one earlier version.
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I don't like it, it looks cheaper than before and a cookie cutter design. This corner deserves a better design building and better materials than those cheap looking panels that will clad it. Bummer!
Can it be any blander?
Especially going from 23 to 18 floors and under 200',
it looks completely squat.
At such a great address.
A neighborhood that is booming!
Call me crazy, but I would preferred to keep the handsome buildings and turn Wendy's into a cool restaurant concept with a nice rooftop. Or just build a nice 5 story brick building in Wendy's spot.
Plopping this down on one of the many parking lots around the city is fine, but at this corner is meh.
Call me crazy, but I would preferred to keep the handsome buildings and turn Wendy's into a cool restaurant concept with a nice rooftop. Or just build a nice 5 story brick building in Wendy's spot.
Plopping this down on one of the many parking lots around the city is fine, but at this corner is meh.
I was gonna say that I actually liked the wendys better but I thought that would be too much for this crowd.
I was gonna say that I actually liked the wendys better but I thought that would be too much for this crowd.
Lol. I don't know if I'd go that far. But all of the existing buildings including the Wendy's I think is easily better than this building. Really uninspiring.
Was the reduction driven by the height of the heliport, which is right across the street from this one?
Not that the result is any better...
That's the reason, or more specifically the heliport's lack of height, as it's not much more than a dozen stories above the street. [Just eyeballing it in pictometry; I don't know its exact height.]
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^That's horrible. Tbh, I'd take metal panels over stucco any day. The use of stucco on brick buildings should be banned before metal panels IMO (although those can also look horrible). Stucco looks fine in the Desert Southwest, not the Northeast.
That's really sad. I had high hopes for that building when I saw it was going to be renovated. I can kind of understand the ground floor, but the second, third and fourth floor stink.
Jesus Christ. The brick wasn't even in that poor of shape.
And the top . . . I mean they "tried" to do some thoughtful ornamentation, but if you had scaffolding up and got someone out to lay brick, why the ef would you not just simply restore the existing cornice? It would have been cheaper and 1000 times better looking.
To rub salt in the wound, I am in the market for a 20 ft wide wood cornice. Previous owners tore mine off and covered the area with vinyl siding.
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