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New Renderings of "The JACX," Tishman Speyer's Creative Office Development for LIC

The real estate heavyweights at Tishman Speyer have debuted a website and renderings of “The JACX,” the next commercial phase of their enormous Gotham Center master plan in Long Island City. Just two weeks ago, we announced the fall leasing launch of Jackson Park, Gotham Center’s residential phase composed of three sparkling rental towers holding 1,800 units and 120,000 sf of indoor and outdoor amenities. Together with LIC's incredible transportation infrastructure, Tishman's mixed-use vision aims to create the ultimate work-play-live environment.

Construction of The JACX is underway at 28-01 Jackson Avenue, directly across from Jackson Park and adjacent to Tishman’s already-finished office tower, Two Gotham Center. Drawn up by Moed de Armas & Shannon Architects (MdeAS), the 1.1 MSF project is composed of two identical 26-floor towers (One Jackson and Three Jackson) that are rather conventional in form aside from bands of ridged terra cotta spandrels.
The JACX is designed to bring the outside in,” the new website touts. The roof of the buildings’ connecting podium features a one-acre, landscaped “park” that Tishman says “will serve as a quad where tenants can socialize, relax, dine or work.” The quad will feature a cafe pavilion and central gathering space to promote community building. It will also have seasonal planting to ensure year-round greenery with more than 25,000 flowering bulbs and 100 trees. At street-level, there will be a “lushly-planted” plaza and atop the north building, there will be a roof deck.

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