Bubble Wrap: November 2006

Whitney and City sign agreement for High Line site

The NY Times reported today, in Whitney’s Expansion Plans Are Shifting South, to the Meatpacking District that while subject to review, an agreement has been reached for a new art museum at the southern end of the High Line.

The Whitney recently reached a conditional agreement on Wednesday night with the city’s Economic Development Corporation to buy the city-owned site, at Gansevoort and Washington streets, officials at the museum said yesterday. Plans call for the new museum to be at least twice the size of the Whitney’s home on Madison Avenue at 75th Street, they said, and to be finished within the next five years.

South Bronx Greenway gets $30M and green light

Crain’s NY Business reports on the latest South Bronx initiative to clean-up the Hunts Point area and provide better access to the waterfront.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a $30 million plan on Monday for the South Bronx Greenway, a key component of a broader vision to revitalize the Hunts Point Peninsula.

As part of a wider plan for Hunts Point, which was first outlined in 2005, the city will implement the “Greenway plan” with four short-term projects and additional improvements that will add 1.5 acres of open space and 2.3 miles of pedestrian routes.

When it’s completed, the South Bronx greenway will encompass 1.5 miles of new waterfront greenway, 8.5 miles of new green streets, and nearly 12 acres of new waterfront open space.

Governors Island Reprimer

In New Fake Plans for Governors Island Unveiled! Curbed follows the spin-anything-you-can, keep-hope-alive news from the plan-less island.

let’s spirit across the bay to Governors Island, which is still seeking some sort of development plan months after the four proposals drawn up last year got brutally shot down.

REBNY planning public site

The NY Daily News and the NY Sun reported that the Real Estate Board of New York is planning to launch a public site in the spring where consumers will be able to view the exclusive sales and rental listings of REBNY member firms in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

That’s a really good idea!