NEW YORK | Avalon Willoughby West | 596 FT | 58 FLOORS

[Fardeb]

Thanks for these updates Rebel, interesting stuff. I guess we will have to wait to see about those changes you saw, maybe we will get a better idea when they are done with demo in May.

[yankeesfan1000]

Found by desterpunk on SSC:

DOB Issues More Demo Permits for Willoughby West



"The Department of Buildings issued three more demolition permits for the massive Willoughby West rental development planned for Willoughby Street between Duffield and Bridge streets...A 57-story, 861-unit rental tower will go up on this corner..."

[sbarn]

Wrong thread, oops!

[sbarn]

Site has now been cleared and is ready for construction.


Brownstoner

[Tectonic]

Given how Avalon projects speed, this might be well out the ground by December.

[NYguy]

Brooklyn continues to rise.

[NYRebel]

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/article...eeding-schools

* 100 Willoughby St.: Real estate-obsessed readers take note: AvalonBay's spokesman said 100 Willoughby is the address the developer is using now for this project. It is also referred to as 88 Willoughby St. or Avalon Willoughby West.

A deep hole has been dug at the site, and we saw a parked bulldozer and a small group of workers toting things around when we peeked through a tiny observation window in the fence.

Construction started this week and will be done in roughly three years, with first apartments ready for occupancy in June or July 2015, the AvalonBay spokesman said. There will be 826 rental apartments, he noted; 860 were originally planned.

The spokesman sent us a comment from Martin Piazzola, senior vice president for development, about the competition to be Brooklyn's tallest residential building.

“When we were designing our building, we really didn't focus on how tall 388 Bridge St. would be,” Piazzola said. “We just wanted to design the best building we could for the site.”

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by NYRebel

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

Hmm, we need some photos to confirm actual construction, and not just a hole in the ground getting ready for construction.

[NYRebel]

True. If possible I'll attempt to get some pix while I'm down there. I'm just excited its about to start!

City Point is also rising fast! I'll take some photos of the progress as well.

[Tectonic]

09.06.13




©tectonic

[NYRebel]

Originally Posted by Tectonic

09.06.13




©tectonic

OMG thank you! I'm not sure if you guys remember but back in March/April, when I did a quick update I told you I saw a new rendering! THIS was it!! What do you guys think about it? I think it's way better than the first ones.

The rendering easily looks better than 388.

Originally Posted by NYRebel

EXCITING NEWS!!!

He was pretty cool and he even showed me a new rendering of the building. I'm sorry I didn't ask if I could take a pic for you guys (I was a bit excited) but I will say it's more glassy than what we see here (more blue-ish it seemed, and nothing like the renderings we have posted. In a good way though, nothing too drastic)

[Perklol]

An excellent addition to Brooklyn.

[Hypothalamus]

As of December 28, 2013...
Photo Credit: Tectonic

Avalon Willoughby is still a giant hole in the ground.

©tectonic | granted permission to post photos here

[fleonzo]

Can the admin/moderator please move this over to the "High rise Construction" thread forum? Thanks

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by fleonzo

Can the admin/moderator please move this over to the "High rise Construction" thread forum? Thanks

When it's under construction. Photos presented still show us a "hole in the ground."

[NYguy]

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories...0-bk_37_2.html

Bay Watch: Contractor for Brooklyn’s soon-to-be-tallest building caught apparently stealing city water





By Matt Perlman
December 31, 2013

Brooklyn’s soon-to-be tallest building has apparently been stealing city water.

The construction crew for the Downtown tower Avalon Willoughby West, which is slated to become the borough’s tallest building in 2015, has been siphoning water from a fire hydrant since at least last week. The city sells $55 permits for builders to take hydrant water legally, but an official said developer Avalon Bay had no such pass.

"We do not have a record of a permit for using the fire hydrant at this location,” a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection said.

The site at Willoughby and Duffield streets is just a hole in the ground now, but a 57-story, 596-foot residential building is slated to rise there by 2015, beating out the nearby Brooklyner and also-under-construction neighbor 388 Bridge Street for the title of loftiest tower.

In addition to getting the environmental protection department’s slip, builders are required by the fire department to keep hydrants accessible during construction with a hand-operated shut-off valve and a secondary hose connection that firefighters can tap into in an emergency. The Avalon Willoughby West contractor set-up has the required nozzles, but on Monday, the hose was leaking a steady stream of water into the gutter, leaving the pedestrian path, a temporary sidewalk diversion for the construction, wet and muddy.

The city sent inspectors to the site on Monday afternoon, but by the time they arrived, work had ceased for the day and the contraption was gone.

The fine for failing to file for a hydrant permit starts at $750. The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment by phone and e-mail.

[Hypothalamus]

Curbed NY:

Checking In On The Site Of Brooklyn's Tallest Tower-To-Be
Monday, January 6, 2014, by Hana R. Alberts

......
...work started back in October, and though it doesn't seem like much progress has been made, construction is scheduled to be complete by the end of 2015.
....

Reminds me of One57's façade... the glass of course.

[NYguy]

We're getting basically 600 ft here. Let the next "big" one jump us up to 800 ft! Brooklyn needs some towers to move above the pack.

[De Minimis NY]

Originally Posted by NYguy

We're getting basically 600 ft here. Let the next "big" one jump us up to 800 ft! Brooklyn needs some towers to move above the pack.

Crain's just put out an article on the dearth of office space in downtown Brooklyn yesterday. Hopefully we can see a commercial or mixed-use tower go up soon that will do just that.

Brooklyn: The place to be, if you can find the space

January 5, 2014

Andrew J. Hawkins

Spurred by cheap and roomy offices or visions of waterfront warehouses within biking distance for their youthful workforces, corporate heavyweights and fast-growing startups alike are casting about Brooklyn in search of commercial space. And they're turning up empty.

"We're in a crisis mode," said Christopher Havens, a commercial real estate broker with AptsandLofts.com. "Everything's in shortage, from townhouses on down."

The search for office space in the borough is likely to be a major plotline in the story of its economic health in 2014. There are more than 100 tenants in the market in Dumbo—already bursting at the seams with 500-plus tech companies—and downtown Brooklyn that can't find space, Mr. Havens said, adding that it is the tightest office market since World War II.

[NYguy]

The search for office space in the borough is likely to be a major plotline in the story of its economic health in 2014. There are more than 100 tenants in the market in Dumbo—already bursting at the seams with 500-plus tech companies—and downtown Brooklyn that can't find space, Mr. Havens said, adding that it is the tightest office market since World War II.

Ironically Downtown Brooklyn was rezoned with the idea of adding more commercial space, similar to what was being pushed for Long Island City in Queens. But like LIC, residential has been the story.

This is one of the reasons we saw commercial space added to the Domino plan, though it's removed from DT Brooklyn. However, even that may not survive the LPC.

It just goes to show you how hungry New York is for space. Land is limited, the best option is always up. A lot of these developments in Brooklyn look big enough to have included some commercial space. Transportation to the area rivals anything in Manhattan, so perhaps a mixed-use tower with residential on the upper floors could work in the future.