MEATPACKING DISTRICT — Owners of a nascent Meatpacking District business are quashing reports that they might be displaced by Pastis.
The Meatpacking mainstay shuttered last year for building renovations, and promises that it would return to its home of 15 years quickly dissolved when it turned out a Restoration Hardware would be moving in at 9-19 Ninth Ave. instead.
Pastis owner Keith McNally was eying the space at 52-56 Gansevoort St., according to records and sources, where the sprawling Gansevoort Market opened just last year.
But the marketplace's owners insist they won't be ousted by the downtown powerhouse restauranteur, who also owns SoHo stalwart Balthazar.
"Gansevoort Market isn’t going anywhere," said spokeswoman Ashley Jaffe. "They’re going strong and gearing up for a busy season ahead."
Jaffe admitted the market's lease is short, "about two years or so."
"So of course I can’t speak to what will happen to the space after that," Jaffe said. "But they’ll definitely be there until then."
In October, McNally told the Wall Street Journal that Pastis would reopen somewhere on Gansevoort Street, "around the corner" from its original Ninth Avenue home, in September 2016.
McNally has previously declined to comment on plans for the restaurant's relocation, and didn't immediately respond to a request for an update.