With loft prices soaring in lower Manhattan in the last few years, the Baksts' purchase of an unfinished condo in a former manufacturing building was indeed a solid investment.
Established Irish families are moving to the suburbs, and a growing number of recent Irish immigrants are young professionals who spend their evenings discussing loft prices rather than swapping tales about British oppression.Of course, there are still plenty of Irish-Americans who like to celebrate St Patrick's Day by singing rebel songs and unfurling "Britain out of Ireland" banners.
They range from a 2,514-square-foot 2,514-square-foot 2,514-square-foot 3,730-square-foot two-bedroom that seloftfor $4.6 million.
It's a pretty loft price to pay for not having to keep track of reps in your head that at this point feels more far more like novelty than necessity.
The project has 118 downtown lofts that offer living and work space; studios start in the $600,000s, with penthouse lofts priced at $1.3 million.
On Church Street, cater-corner to the New Haven Green, the Christie Wareck Company converted two early 1900s retail buildings into 13 SoHo-style lofts priced at $525,000 to $849,000.
TOWER 78, 78 Ten Eyck Street An 11-unit building designed by Scarano & Associates Architects with two duplex apartments, six mezzanine lofts and three penthouse tri-level lofts, priced from $425,000 to $750,000.
Lofts, priced from $2.553 million to $5.072 million, are to be on the upper two floors of the old facades, and will have 14- and 16-foot-high ceilings and 10-foot-high arched windows.
Other ideas Scheetz has for activating the building: a shopping gallery and a bar in the basement; an artists-in-residency program; and small bedrooms, hyperbolically designated as "artists' lofts" — priced at two hundred dollars a night, Scheetz's idea of a budget destination — next door to rooms that will cost a thousand.
In six sales to residential tenants, the occupants were able to put up sufficient equity to buy small walkups or lofts at prices ranging from $60,000 to $800,000.
Scott Allison, another Elliman broker, served Blanton's bourbon while showing a renovated artists' loft whose price had been cut to $2.7 million from $3.1 million.
