But, Americans are still doing high end renovations.
After a couple of years of not talking about high end renovations, Americans are once again talking about it.
It's an understatement to say it's a high-end renovation.
The high-end renovation incorporated many of the original architectural details, like the distinctive stone arches that span the ground floor.
Another unit, a 500-square-foot one-bedroom featuring a "not-so-high-end renovation," had a view of an unlovely courtyard.
At 18 Gramercy Park, a beyond-high-end renovation project featuring 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot model apartments were staged by a company called Clos-ette.
Mr. Morgenstern had represented a buyer who at one point was interested in the Galleria apartment and he estimated that a high-end renovation of the condo would cost about $3 million.
The team made what she called a "scary" decision to undertake a high-end renovation, not only upgrading the plumbing and electrical systems, but also redoing all the floors and putting in central air-conditioning, radiant-heat bathroom floors, millwork underneath the windows and detailed molding.
He and his wife, Karen Smith, an English art historian, are among a growing number of foreigners who have invested in the houses in recent years, refurbishing them with the mix of modern sensibility and respect for original detail one expects of a high-end renovation in Brooklyn or East London.
Since the Central Park West Historic District was designated in 1990, a wave of high-end renovation has swept the blocks adjoining Central Park West, but this middle block of 73rd Street, which is part of the district, is well behind that curve.
"During this fiscal crisis, it makes absolutely no sense to keep pouring at least another $10 million, by the city's own estimate, of desperately needed funds into the never-ending renovation of a prison that will remain empty".
