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9-Story Condo Building Is Planned for a Tribeca Lot A nine-story residential building is planned for a long empty but prime corner of Tribeca, at West Broadway and North Moore Street.
The building site, for many years a parking lot, lies adjacent to but outside the Tribeca Historic District, so the design will not need the approval of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. “We’re going to do a building that’s thoughtfully designed,” said Moore, who is an architect. “It’s not going to look like an old building, but so what? It’s more about the effort you put into it.” The site does fall within an area of Tribeca that is still zoned for manufacturing use. Moore will need to go before the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals for a residential variance. To do so, he has to demonstrate that the lot presents a hardship under its current zoning. “You can’t build an office building and make money,” Moore, a Tribeca resident, said he would argue. By his own count, Moore has developed 25 buildings in the city, including several in Tribeca. Among them is the former American Express stable on Hubert Street and a new residential building that will go up at Canal and Washington Streets. Moore bought the North Moore Street property from John Calicchio, chairman of Argo International Corp., a marine supply company located a block away on Franklin Street. Calicchio also owns the larger parking lot on the other end of the block, at North Moore and Varick Streets, which extends to Beach Street. Over a year ago, well before Moore purchased the lot, an architect and lawyer for Calicchio came before Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee to float an idea for developing the two lots. They suggested a change in zoning that would allow a 12- or 13-story building on the Varick Street lot while putting up only a four- to six-story structure on the West Broadway side. The committee’s response was cool because the proposed zoning would exceed what CB1 wants to see throughout northern Tribeca. Moore said he is eyeing a possible purchase of the second lot as well.
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