Construction Watch: 95 Perry Street
Downtown enthusiasts and pessimists are focused on the Inner Harbor as Benderson Development with a dollop of taxpayer money is driving the Canal Side project forward. Two blocks to the east of Main Street, the transformation of the area around HSBC Arena is already underway.
Sam Savarino and Chris Jacobs, following First Amherst Development’s Elk Terminal Lofts, saw the potential of the Cobblestone District and the foot of Main Street years ago. Savarino and Jacobs are nearly finished transforming a stretch of Mississippi Street into a mix of office, residential and restaurant space. The final piece of their project, conversion of the former Benlin warehouse, will welcome its first tenants in just a few weeks.
Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) has signed up to be the anchor tenant in the five-story building at 95 Perry Street. The State agency leased the top two floors, but recently disclosed that it will sublease one of those floors. ESDC staffers will be in their new space by mid-January.
Watts Architecture & Engineering, P.C. is taking the third and half of the second floor. Five, two-bedroom apartments will fill the balance of the second floor space.
The ground floor will include a tenant fitness center and additional office and retail space. Savarino is currently searching for a restaurant operator for the corner space which includes a covered patio (photo below).
Benchwarmer’s Sports Bar & Grill will soon join W. J. Morrissey’s Irish Pub at adjacent 30 Mississippi Street (below) once its liquor license application is approved.
Get Connected: Savarino Cos., 716.332.5959
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Ike
Hopefully two bars can survive right next to each other in that location
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NorPark
Ike, it will pretty much be 3 bars right next to each other.
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sbrof
Yeah, Cobblestone is right around the corner. That makes three and in all truthfulness this will make it much more likely that I will go to any of them, because the couple times i have been to JP Morrissey's it was so packed that we were left to go somewhere else, and with few to no options around it means that my friends are less likely to go down there. Having two or three bars within walking distance to one another means we will have the options and making the 'commitment' to head to that part of downtown for a drink. Especially when you take the train or walk there, then needing to go somewhere else becomes a real pain.
Great job guys and this is another small block of downtown to be proud of. Too bad there are not more of them like it to continue to the development. But alas we needed to be progressive and create 10 blocks of parkings and nothing to do.
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Brette
More Bars In More Places!
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chris_h_23
Its nice to see further development of this area. Hopefully the trend keeps up!
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whynot
I hope they do something about parking and safety, there have been reports of violence and vandalism on this little stretch of street over the past few months.
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JULIETTEGriffin
People in the world take the home loans in various banks, because this is easy.
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