Less than three months after purchasing the 38,000-square-foot former candy factory at 20 Henry Street for $19.6 million, Urban Realty Partners has hired a new architect and filed plans to begin converting the 43-unit rental building into 14 condominium residences; the architect for the conversion is Joseph Pell Lombardi, who has overseen countless conversions of historic loft buildings in Soho, Tribeca and elsewhere. Still unknown, the Eagle points out, is whether the developer plans to stick with the LPC-approved plans for a four-story new building in the adjacent courtyard that fronts Poplar and Henry Streets. (Click here to see the rendering.)
New Architect Hired for 20 Henry Conversion [Brooklyn Eagle] GMAP P*Shark DOB