It seems like anything can happen on development-crazed 4th Avenue nowadays, including an unholy alliance of starchitect and slumlord. Or maybe not. Turns out plans for an Enrique Norten-designed apartment building on 4th Avenue and 6th Street have been canned, according to a representative from Ten Arquitectos. And who owns the site where the Norton project was supposed to rise? None other than slumlord extraordinaire Baruch Singer. Singer’s name is all over property records for 391 4th Avenue, a purchase that was a joint venture with Rosma Development, according to a source. No word on what Singer and Rosma are planning to develop now, and there’s been zero action on the DOB-filing front. The old warehouse at the corner of 4th Avenue and 6th Street that the partnership would need to demolish is still standing (see photo on jump). It’s not all bad news for Enrique Norten fans in the Slope, though: Work is moving right along on a Ten Arquitectos building on Carroll between 4th and 5th avenues.
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