Site of Grant’s Department Store, Liebman’s, Gutted to Clear Way for High Rise in Downtown New Rochelle

Written By: Robert Cox

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — It is not apparent driving down Main Street these days but structures on the block along the South side of Main Street between Church Street and opposite Lawton Place are ready to tumble — possibly next week.

UPDATE 2/23/22 – NEW VIDEO

The area behind the facades of the old Grant’s Department store (more recently the New York Covenant Church) and Liebman’s, where private and parochial school families once shopped for school uniforms (now relocated a block away at 518 Main Street), has been demolished leaving a large, flooded pit.

In their place will rise 500 Main Street, planned to be a 26-story mixed use development which will include 477 residential units and 2,100 square feet of retail space, a ground floor church with an entrance on Main Street, and, 515 on-site parking spaces.

UPDATE 2/13 Grants/REI/New Covenant Church demolished.

4 thoughts on “Site of Grant’s Department Store, Liebman’s, Gutted to Clear Way for High Rise in Downtown New Rochelle”

  1. They keep building… constant road work… retail? What retail???? No one in their right mind would want to open a descent store. Where are the big name stores? All I can say is that (and I can guarantee) most of all these buildings in New Rochelle will have the majority of Section 8. Disgraceful. The sanctuary cities got to GO!! My taxes are going through the roof because of this. Sickening

  2. Who is paying for the high pressure gas lines being installed all over New Rochelle? Is it true that this change to high pressure was required to meet the needs of downtown development? Thank you.

    1. Yes, the downtown development required high pressure gas lines be installed. I never priced it myself but I heard the cost was $40 million, that the City is paying for it, so the taxpayers are paying it.

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      1. How can they even hook up to NG? Didn’t ConEd put in a moratorium on new hookups in Westchester because new pipelines in bring in an ample supply of NG aren’t being approved by NYS so that there isn’t enough NG in the system for new customers? Did Cuomo override that moratorium on new NG hookups in Westchester, like he did for Queens and LI?

        And who authorized NR to pay $40 million for new gas lines? And does that $40 million include resurfacing the streets? I bet not.

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