New Live/Work Lofts Coming to Midtown, East of DIA and College for Creative Studies

[Gistok]

This development is named after Julio Bateau... a Haitian immigrant to the USA, who basically started Midtown residential development when no one else would touch the area 20 years ago.

Bateau is largely responsible for restoring and adding in-fill residential to that historic street, and doing so in a way that was complementary to the architecture of the surviving mansions on East Ferry.

A 2007 article about Julio Bateau [you can navigate the paywall by waiting 10 seconds for it to disappear]...

https://www.builderonline.com/land/d...r-of-a-dream_o

In many ways Julio Bateau is to Midtown what Chuck Forbes is to the Theatre district.

[masterblaster]

This development is named after Julio Bateau... a Haitian immigrant to the USA, who basically started Midtown residential development when no one else would touch the area 20 years ago.

Bateau is largely responsible for restoring and adding in-fill residential to that historic street, and doing so in a way that was complementary to the architecture of the surviving mansions on East Ferry.

A 2007 article about Julio Bateau [you can navigate the paywall by waiting 10 seconds for it to disappear]...

https://www.builderonline.com/land/d...r-of-a-dream_o

In many ways Julio Bateau is to Midtown what Chuck Forbes is to the Theatre district.

Thanks for sharing. I have never heard of this gentlemen, but without his vision and tenacity and dedication and persistence, Ferry Street might not have been saved. This guy needs to be WAY, WAY more celebrated in this area. We've heard of Joel Landy, but why have not heard of Julio Bateau?