CHELSEA — Celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain's big plans for Chelsea's Pier 57 are taking shape, according to the New York Times.
Bourdain plans to revamp the abandoned pier and turn it into a sprawling marketplace with 155,000 square feet of fishmongers, butchers, bakers and crafts vendors, according to the Commercial Observer.
The $60 million plan which will open in about two years, includes at least one restaurant as well as a public park on the building's roof.
“Think of an Asian night market,” he told the New York Times, in a recent interview clarifying some of the details of the project. “Eating and drinking at midnight.”
The grandiose project has been years in the making — Community Board 4 gave the thumbs up to architects Youngwoo and Associates back in 2012 who said the redesign of the old pier would turn it into a "cultural hub around food and fashion and film and art."
This May, the Commercial Observer reported that Bourdain would be involved the Pier 57 marketplace, though the details of that plan were still murky.
Pier 57 located in Hudson River Park at 15th Street was built in 1952 and has been vacant since the early 2000s.