BPC North - more retail!

This area will undoubtedly evolve more quickly now, as it is filling up. Riverhouse is moving quickly...two smaller buildings will be built next to the ballfields, and then it's done. It's really too bad that developers chose to put in-building private gyms and playrooms at street-level, rather than lease/sell the space to retail business, restaurants, etc. Those amenities would have actually been... [more]

This area will undoubtedly evolve more quickly now, as it is filling up. Riverhouse is moving quickly...two smaller buildings will be built next to the ballfields, and then it's done. It's really too bad that developers chose to put in-building private gyms and playrooms at street-level, rather than lease/sell the space to retail business, restaurants, etc. Those amenities would have actually been nicer if there were on higher floors anyway. BPC North really needs more retail and food if it's ever going to feel more like NYC. Not the god-awful corporation-owned shops and restaurants of the World Financial Center and adjacent buildings, but some real NYC-style small businesses. Two delis, a dry cleaner and Pan Latin are the only examples today. The parks are great, the river is great, the people are very nice. It's just too bad it feels so planned, foreign and (at least in the winter) dead. [less]