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.