Here is our headlining story from this week's Riverdale Review.
By Brendan McHugh
The city’s Economic Development Corporation is choosing
between five bids for the 230th Street development, ranging from a single
supermarket to a 16-story mixed-use development with 200 units of housing.
The development will rise near the corner of 230th Street
and Broadway, sandwiched between the elevated No. 1 subway and the Major Deegan
Expressway.
A source close to the project laid out basic details of the
plans and stressed that they were in no particular order.
The first, which the source dubbed the “Foodtown murderer,”
is a 72,000-square-foot supermarket with 300 parks spaces on the roof.
Foodtown, which was recently renovated, is directly across the street.
Another proposal is a 32,000-square-foot, two story building
with a supermarket on the ground floor. The second floor would be office space,
and 90 parking spots would be available at grade level.
A third project has 133,000 square feet of retail space as a
two-story building. It would be a mix of businesses, such as a specialty grocer
and national chains. There would also be 130 parking spaces below grade.
