On North Moore St., Work Begins at a Long-Empty Tribeca Site

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Left: Rendering of previous design for an apartment building at North Moore Street and West Broadway. Right: Revised design for building that is now under construction.
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Left: Rendering of previous design for an apartment building at North Moore Street and West Broadway. Right: Revised design for the condominium project, now being developed by the Vella Group, with 6-story townhouse and triplex penthouse. Construction recently began on the project.
Work has begun on a 10-story apartment building at the very visible corner of North Moore Street and West Broad­way.
A much different-looking project—but the same size—had stalled and languished at foundation level there until April, when developers Zachary Vella and Justin Ehrlich of the Vella Group took it over from developer Peter Moore for a reported $9 million. They call the site “the single best location of any new development in Tribeca.”
“It just feels like a neighborhood,” said Vella. “There’s nothing that feels large and commercial about it.”
The building, which does not need Landmarks Preservation Commission ap­proval be­cause it lies just outside the historic district, will have two entrances on North Moore Street. One will belong to a six-story townhouse (four bedrooms, five baths, private garage, 1,210-square- foot outdoor courtyard) that will occupy the western side of the building.
Also among the planned six condominiums is a three-story, 5,200-square-foot penthouse (four bedrooms, four baths, 2,500-square-foot outdoor space). The developers declined to speculate on the sale prices of their apartments.
The building is designed by FLAnk Architecture, the same firm behind Moore’s project. But where the previous rendering showed a battleship-grey building with slit-like windows of varying widths topped by a green pent­­house, this red-brick-and-glass fa­cade takes an opposite turn.
“We were lookng for something warm­er in terms of an antique brick,” said Vella, “with windows that fit in with the neighborhood more, capturing the light and views.”
In northern Tribeca, Vella and Ehr­lich had taken over another stalled Peter Moore project, the nine-story 471 Wash­ington Street, due to be finished in the next 10 months.
The developers expect 1 North Moore Street to be completed by late next year.