My wife and I live in Harlem, so this one is personal. There are many residents of Harlem that seem to want to block progress at any cost. It is too bad that Vornado could not have gotten this building approved more quickly. Perhaps they would have been far enough along by now that the economy would not have halted the project. Now we will continue to have a nice trash filled empty lot on the corner of 125th and Park Avenue. Awesome.
Vornado Exec: 125th Street MLB Project ‘Shut Down’
From The Observer
Another new development project canceled.
Speaking at an investor conference yesterday, Vornado CFO Joseph Macnow gave word that the company’s troubled plans for Harlem Park, an office tower on 125th Street, have been officially scuttled.
“We’ve shut down a couple of development projects,” Mr. Macnow said. “We were going to build the first office building in Harlem in 50 years on 125th Street and Park Avenue. We’ve shut that project down. The economics are not warranted today to do that job.”
Vornado had once wanted to build a 630,000-square-foot office building as a home for a Major League Baseball television network. The developers said they had tentative leases on only about one-third of the space, and thus Vornado couldn’t find financing to build the tower.
In preparation for the tower, Vornado had even gone to the community board and negotiated a concession package in order to gain an exemption from a planned rezoning that would have limited the height.
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