HSBC Downsizing in The Burg
Yesterday, Crain’s reported that HSBC has hired Massey Knakal to unload its iconic bank branch at 151 Broadway in South Williamsburg. The London-based bank has been ensconced in the 28.500-square-foot domed building since 1996 when it acquired the previous resident, Republic National Bank. Where’s HSBC moving? To a space in a new building at Bedford…
Yesterday, Crain’s reported that HSBC has hired Massey Knakal to unload its iconic bank branch at 151 Broadway in South Williamsburg. The London-based bank has been ensconced in the 28.500-square-foot domed building since 1996 when it acquired the previous resident, Republic National Bank. Where’s HSBC moving? To a space in a new building at Bedford and North 3rd Street, right next to the upcoming Duane Reade. From the looks of this photo sent in by a tipster, it should be opening pretty soon (“late 2010” to be exact).
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benson, will I need shots? Diptheria? Malaria?
Minard;
So was my comment. I’ll tell you what – I’ll be happy to take you for a spin around the other parts of Brooklyn. Is it OK for you to venture outside of Brooklyn Heights?
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benson, lighten up, it was a joke.
Minard;
You really know Brooklyn, don’t you? Kings Highway runs NOWHERE NEAR Mill Basin.
I think Montrose is about to put up the 3654th Building Of The Day in Crown Heights. Perhaps it’s time for you to run along and ooh and ahh to it.
And let’s not forget that while Minard’s comment was clearly a joke, there is lots more to Brooklyn than Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg.
If Apple comes to Downtown-ish area, it will be more accessible to the 2.5 million people who live in Brooklyn. The area around Atlantic Terminal has the most subway lines and it would make a lot of sense so that people all over the borough could shop there.
I’ll be happy to be proven wrong when Brooklyn does finally get its first Apple store. I have one near my office, anyway.
Yes, the latter. From what I’ve noticed anyway.
South Williamsburg isn’t exactly undiscovered territory, but it would seem a very odd location to choose to me. Not because it’s in Williamsburg, but because Williamsburg is almost more an extension of Manhattan (with it being so close) and the large population in the Brownstone Belt (and Downtown) is more of a hub of people….thus more customers for Apple.
I don’t know a soul in Park Slope who would go to South Williamsburg to go to the Apple store instead of hop on the F and go to the one in Soho or the 2/3 and go to the one in the Meatpacking District.
I believe they will select a more centrally located site, it’s nothing against this area.
11217, do you know the team that picks locations for Apple or something? Seems you’re implying there is some corporate stance against gentrification? Or are you just saying pioneering isn’t part of the strategy in siting new stores?
This is two stops from Broadway-Lafayette on the M. What better way for tourists to get a taste of Brooklyn and all of its cool authenticity.
“Neither location seem in any way similar to this one in my mind, despite a few great restaurants in the area.”
Still has more going for it than anything in Brownstone Brooklyn.