Thursday On The Record
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Transformation of shopping strips like Fulton usually begin with public sector improvements such as pavement/furniture/lighting. That spurs private interest and before you know it, Smith Street!
If you ask whether that is good or bad, I come down on “good” but that’s just me.
Minard, No reasonable view of Fulton Mall can say that it is changing due to public sector improvements like pavement, lightening or furniture. The change (likely delayed by a LACK of public sector $) is clearly due to the massive increase of expensive residential neighborhoods on all sides of the Fulton Mall.
H&M (and their ilk) isnt moving to the Mall because the pavement and lighting got a little better (did it anyway?) – they are moving there because their demographic surveys show that their likely shoppers live in every adjoining zipcode and beyond.
Typical irrelevant nonsense – Fulton Mall is privately owned – so just like the shopkeepers featured who sell their goods for the market price so too will LL rent at the market price – if this means that Fulton Mall goes back to a higher end retailer, like it historically supported – then so be it – its not about race, or discrimination – its about economics.
Still you got to love the guy who says at 1:19 in relation to Fulton Mall – “I think its a really weird space and I dont know how to interact with it and I think they should just make it go away” – classic!!!! you dont know how to “interact with it” – WTF does that even mean – where do people like this even come from. Might be my ‘new’ Brooklyn Quote of the year!
In NYC, things are either frozen in time or they change all at once. That seems to be the way that big business-oriented cities evolve. I think that changes are going to come fast and furious in Downtown. It will not be “organic” whatever that means.
Times do change. you gotta go with the flow, that’s NYC for better or worse.
The york street station is for sale?!
wha?