Former Esquire owner Christopher Whittle‘s plans for a Durst-developed, for-profit private school on the far, far West Side, which were hobbled by the collapse of financing, are back on track now that Mr. Whittle has found new funding for the project.
Douglas Durst revealed the project’s resumption to the Commercial Observer‘s Jotham Sederstrom in an Read More
“Whoever this is, I don’t want to talk to you,” said the man who answered the phone Tuesday at the offices of the Nations Academy, the private-school brainchild of former Esquire owner Christopher Whittle.
As The Observer’s Web site reported on Monday, Mr. Whittle’s plans for an academy on a West 57th Street site Read More
The ambitious plans for a new, high-end private school proposed by former Esquire owner Christopher Whittle and developer Douglas Durst are no more.
Durst spokesman Jordan Barowitz confirmed that the developer is no longer involved in the project.
"There were a number of issues on which we could not reach agreement," he said. Read More
New York did a snapshot this week of Chris Whittle, the bowtie-wearing former Esquire owner who is planning to build a new 220,000-square-foot school on West 57th Street with developer Douglas Durst.
The article says the school is still now planned for 2011 (up from 2010 when we spoke with Mr. Whittle in Read More
