Commuters, office workers and the growing residential and hospitality community in the Penn Station area will soon have a sprawling new place to eat and drink.
Savanna, the real estate private equity firm that owns 31 Penn Plaza, has just signed a lease with Philadelphia-based Public House, a restaurant group planning a 4000 square foot new restaurant and bar .
To be named Pennsylvania Six, the upscale American restaurant will be located on the first floor of the West 31st Street building between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
It is slated to open in September and includes mezzanine space with up to 200 seats and could conjure up memories, for some, of the 1940 Glenn Miller classic, “Pennsylvania 6-5000.”
Marc Frankel, Amy Zhen and Michael Cohen of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Retail repped Savanna in a direct deal with Pennsylvania Six.
Public House operates restaurant and bar concepts throughout New York, Philadelphia and Maryland, and is set to open its first Las Vegas outpost later this year at the Luxor. (There’s also another Public House by a different group at the Venetian.)
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A Wall Street veteran and entrepreneur is introducing a new frozen yogurt concept to Harlem.
Quintano Downes will soon open Pa-Paya Seed at 171 Lenox Ave., between 118th and 119th streets. It will offer low-fat, no-fat and sugar-free varieties.
The design will be relaxed “chic European, like a sophisticated coffee house,” said Faith Hope Consolo of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who represented the landlord and tenant. “We thrive on bringing new businesses to Harlem. This will add much to the retail mix along the avenue.”
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SIGHTINGS: Nancy Grigor, head of Hamptons Locations, amusing friends at Flex Mussels 13th St. with tales from a recent Christian Dior shoot she helped organize on a Water Mill beach with Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard, shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. The shoot nearly came to a halt when a bikini-clad beachgoer perhaps drinking one too many rosés, tried to get her picture taken, too.