Private school files plans for $3.9M project to convert former Chelsea Art Museum to 28K sf school

Spring Education Group, on October 5, filed a permit application for a $3.9 million project to covert the former Chelsea Art Museum to a 28,819-square-foot school building at 556 West 22nd Street in Chelsea.

Spring Education Group signed a 20-year lease at the building last month.

The building is owned by Albanese Development, which closed on the property for $19.35 million at Chelsea Art Museum’s bankruptcy auction in 2010.

The plans call for no change in size but a change in use of the 58-foot tall, three-story, 28,819-square-foot building.

The project is described in the filings as: application filed for general construction in conjunction with change of use, egress and occupancy for new proposed school. Obtain new certificate of occupancy. The initial cost as reported in the DOB filing for the work described in this permit application is $3,907,296.

The building had previously been occupied by Hewlett-Packard, which signed a 10-year lease for the entire building shortly after Albanese Development acquired it.

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