Detour Gallery LLC has signed a 10-year, 2,656-square-foot lease at 555 West 23rd St. in West Chelsea, with an opening scheduled for April 27, announced Douglaston Development.
The ground floor retail space (which will have the address of 545 West 23rd St.) will be utilized as an art gallery and events venue, bringing an extensive selection of carefully curated and handpicked contemporary artwork and exhibitions to the West Side of Manhattan. Joshua Young of Brown Harris Stevens represented the landlord in the transaction. The tenant was represented by Sido New York Real Estate.
“We are thrilled to welcome Detour Gallery to 555 West 23rd St. as they look to grow and cement their presence within West Chelsea’s lively and continuously burgeoning art scene,” said Ryan O’Connor, chief executive officer of Clinton Management. “The addition of Detour Gallery not only represents the continued growth being seen within the art realm across the area, but our team’s continued commitment to creating new opportunities for artists to call the neighborhood home via our commercial space offerings throughout the West Chelsea region.”
Other art purveyors operating within the building’s 11,000-square-foot retail space include Art9 Comics, LLC, Andrea Rosen Gallery and Fredricks and Frasier Gallery. Shayna Schwartz will serve as Detour’s gallery director.
“We are excited to be expanding into the heart of West Chelsea as we look to connect with and showcase up-and-coming artists within this creative and art centric community,” said Ken Schwartz, founder and art collector of Detour Gallery. “We’ll be launching our new space on April 27 with our opening show ‘Worth the Detour,’ which will run through June 4, and look forward to introducing of Detour to the neighborhood in just a couple weeks’ time.”
