A real estate investor just paid a pretty hefty sum for an old Gowanus warehouse but, unlike some of the other recent buyers in the area, he’s not planning to tear the building down and put up a hotel. Elo Realty closed on the purchase of the old Daily News garage on 3rd Avenue between Douglass and Degraw earlier this week for $10.5 million, and the firm intends to rent it out for retail use, according to the firm’s principal, Jack Elo. It’s big enough for a drugstore like CVS or Duane Reade, says Elo, or even a supermarket. Seems to us like either of those uses would be very welcome to the folks who live in amenities-starved Gowanus and to the people who are going to move into all the new 4th Avenue developments.
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