{"id":2084,"date":"2009-04-30T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2010-09-03T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T22:32:36","slug":"arts-groups-to-occupy-prime-location-on-125th-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"Arts Groups To Occupy Prime Location On 125th Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">By HarlemHouse<\/p>\n<p>Two nonprofit arts groups have been selected as part of the proposed Mart 125 redevelopment project.\u00a0 They are the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and ImageNation (independent cinema and progressive music established in 1997 to support progressive film and music for black and Latino people).\u00a0\u00a0 Soul Cinema would be Harlem\u2019s first and the nation\u2019s only art-house movie theater dedicated to black and Latino films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2085\" href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2009\/04\/30\/arts-groups-to-occupy-prime-location-on-125th-street\/mart125-480\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2085\" title=\"mart125-480\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mart125-480.jpg\" alt=\"mart125-480\" width=\"480\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mart125-480.jpg 480w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mart125-480-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Hiroko Masuike<\/p>\n<p>The jazz museum would use up to 10,000 square feet for a listening library and for performance, exhibition and office space, while ImageNation would create a theater of up to 2,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>The project will have to attract interest from developers in order to move forward, and both institutions have announced plans to raise money.<\/p>\n<p>Mart 125 opened in 1986.\u00a0\u00a0 It was envisioned as\u00a0a small-business incubator &#8211;\u00a0creating entrepreneurs who would eventually start their own stores and perhaps own a stake in the Mart.\u00a0 The state reneted stalls to vendors and promissed management training, which never occured.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The building began to deteriorate, and customer volume could not support the Mart, and stores begain having trouble paying the rent.\u00a0 The Giuliani administration evicted the vendors.\u00a0 The building has been empty since 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HarlemHouse Two nonprofit arts groups have been selected as part of the proposed Mart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155],"tags":[10999100,8898952,2119497,19644328,11102433,8780002,7794037,8100081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}