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Whole Foods is coming to Park Slope-- apparently they are moving into a large lot on the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue (not to be confused with Manhattan's 1st Avenue and 1st Street, which is the nexus of the universe!) That would all be fine, except on that very corner is the Pippin Building, a pimping throwback to an age of more elegant architecture. For the last few months it looked like Pippin was doomed to be consumed-- perhaps to be replaced by a large cheese section or frozen foods aisle. Callalillie has been following the development, and she tracked down the latest schematic for the market-- and lo and behold, the Pippin Building (upper left corner) seems safe! It'll probably be turned into million dollar lofts, but still, at least it won't be bulldozed! [Related: more Pippin pix by Callalillie.]
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Ever notice that there are only two corners in Manhattan where streets meet up with avenue of the same number? 1st and 1st and 2nd and 2nd.
2nd street represent!
Does anyone know when the Whole Foods is supposed to open? Granted, it's not even built yet and signs say they are still doing Haz Mat cleanup, so I'm guessing sometime 2007 at the very very earliest. Whole Foods website doesn't have a date yet and by their progress on the Houston store, I'm dubious of a speedy opening.
Anyone have any other info on it? How many floors it will have? Apartments above, etc? It's going to transform that whole area.
This is nice news... the building is very cool, kinda pretty yet forlorn. And now it's the only thing on the block, so I was sure its days were numbered. Maybe WF is going to do something with it.
Odd, though, that a WF would go in there, it's still a pretty industrial area. The South Brooklyn Casket Company is diagonally across the intersection. Not sure how WF folks are going to dig seeing shipments there having just emerged from the organic cereal aisle.