NEW YORK | MID/LOW RISES | General Developments Updates/Compilation

[chris08876]

Brazilian Architect Isay Weinfeld To Build 36 High Line Condos

In a formerly industrial swath of West Chelsea, once home to longstanding nightclub the Pink Elephant and a gas station, 36 luxury condos will rise. Centaur Properties and Greyscale Development Group bought the through-block site between 27th and 28th streets and Tenth and Eleventh avenues last year for $45 million, and just announced plans to erect two 11-story condo buildings that connect in the middle. Given that the High Line is a development magnet of insane proportions, and that the site they bought is right next to a swooping structure on the rise designed by Zaha Hadid (to name just one), it's not surprising that the developers are moving ahead. Called the Jardim—"garden" in Portuguese—the building at 527 West 27th Street will be avant-garde Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld's very first project in New York City.

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http://www.jardim-ny.com/
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...ine_condos.php

[chris08876]

Spreadsheet containing information on the permits for Manhattan in September alone! Key word is the month of September. Who knows how many more will arise in October. Such information includes architects, developers, address, units, height, and floors.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets..._UQ/edit#gid=0

NYC lovers will surely appreciate this.

[chris08876]

Outdated info - delete

[chris08876]

Project: Methane Gas Recycling Facility (Newtown Creek)

The city is building a gas recycling facility on land that it promised it would turn into a neighborhood park, according to Greenpointers who are demanding the plant be moved elsewhere.

Members of the Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee, a community group, say the city pledged the green space more than a decade ago when workers first started building the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. The activists have no problem with the latest addition, an 18-wheeler-sized mechanism that is supposed to harvest methane from sewage and compost and send it back into the energy grid, but say the city should place it somewhere else.

“We are totally for the process that they are building, but what we are against is where they are putting it,” said Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee member and Greenpoint resident Michael Hoffman.

The city did build a so-called “nature walk,” a concrete-lined pathway leading from Provost Street to Newtown Creek, in 2007, and has begun an expansion to connect to Kingsland Avenue and N. Henry Street, but activists say much more public space was part of the bargain.

Between the gas facility and a temporary structure being built nearby, all the remaining area surrounding the plant, which is bounded by Greenpoint Avenue, Provost Street, and N. Henry Street, is in the process of getting built over, Hoffman said.

“It does not look like we are going to get any of the open space they promised us,” he said.

The Department of Environmental Protection retorts that it is placing the methane harvesting system as close to the existing plant as possible, on land that is already paved. The lot is set to be a fenced-off construction site until at least 2016, when the addition is supposed to be completed.

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http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories...-bk_37_40.html

[chris08876]

Project: 95 South 5th Street

At the corner of Berry and South 5th, Horrigan Development is building a six-story, 23-unit apartment building, for which a rendering was recently spotted on the construction site by a YIMBY reader. There will be nearly 18,000 square feet of net residential space, plus a small 675-square foot commercial space (the Schedule A calls it an “eating and drinking establishment”) at the base.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/10/rev...liamsburg.html

[chris08876]

Project: Sunset Park

Note: Highrises technically, but given the scope, its really a large general development.




Towers:

1) 2 x 15 Floors (High Rises)
2) 1 x 17 Floors (High Rise)
3) 1 X 10 Floors (Mid Rise)
4) 1 x 3 Floors (Low Rise)



Info:

Sunset Park is the next neighborhood bracing for a mega-development akin to Queens' Flushing Commons and the Upper West Side's Riverside Center. Brooklyn Paper reports that a group of developers have signed on to erect a massive mixed-use project in the southern Brooklyn neighborhood on Eighth Avenue between 61st and 64th streets. Aptly named Eighth Avenue Center, the new development, designed by Raymond Chan, will have a three-story Chelsea Market-style retail space at its base that will cover some 167,000-square-feet or, as BP puts it, about three football fields. Above it will rise a 10-story, 150-room hotel, two 15-story residential towers with some 350 apartments between them, and a 17-story office tower. The tallest nearby buildings top out at about eight stories, so needless to say, the development's scale is largely unprecedented for the neighborhood.

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Extra Info: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories...-bk_37_40.html
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/1...unset_park.php

[chris08876]

Project: LandMark Colony

Note: General development. Part new contruction, part rehabilitation.

One of New York City's most enigmatic, mysterious, beautifully decrepit places is headed for an total makeover. Staten Island's former New York City Farm Colony—which is, as photo essayist Nathan Kensinger put it "a 45-acre campus of abandoned, crumbling buildings ... Photographers, paintballers, graffiti artists, ghost hunters and other curiosity seekers have made this their playground for nearly 40 years, climbing through gaping holes in the surrounding chain-link fence to explore its century-old dormitories. But that playground may not be long for this world, as the farm colony's fate was presented (aided by a massive amount of renderings) and discussed before the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday. No decisions were handed down, but wheels are in motion for complete redevelopment.

As for the new plan to convert the whole shebang into senior housing, here's who's behind it: NFC Associates is the developer, Tim Boyland of V + B Architecture is the architect, and Nancy Owens of Nancy Owens Studio is the landscape architect. The entire team has worked with the New York City Economic Development Corporation on the proposal.

The plan for its future is a sprawling senior community known as Landmark Colony with 350 units of housing. Six of the historic buildings will be saved, with three of them being used as residences, one for "mixed use," one for storage, and one simply being stabilized for posterity.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/1...se_seniors.php

[chris08876]

12-Story Tower Planned for the Old Moscot Site on Delancey

Exactly two years ago to the day, we broke news of Moscot’s move across Delancey Street. We noted at the time that a tower would likely rise on the site. You see, the two parcels comprising 118 and 120 Orchard Street were combined into one zoning lot shortly before our report.

The two-story box remained intact in the ensuing years, even attracting a media marketing business called WALLPLAY in August 2013. Its exhibits have included several artist billboards, the Clash’s box set release, and a counter serving Intelligentsia Coffee. Rox Gallery also moved into the old space occupied by Jimmy Jazz.

But we knew these arrangements would be temporary.

Helm Equities, which purchased the property in 2012 for $4.8 million, filed preliminary paperwork with the Department of Buildings to construct a twelve-story tower on this combined corner parcel. The floor area is broken into 24,000 square-feet of residential and 6,000 square-feet of commercial. That equates to an “eating and drinking establishment” on the ground floor with twenty-four apartments up above (six of which are duplexes).

So, yeah. Expect demolition in the near future.

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http://www.boweryboogie.com/2014/10/...site-delancey/

[chris08876]

Project: 68 Ferris

Commercial / Residentail – 790,000 square feet

68 Ferris Street consists of three buildings that were originally used for the printing press factories of the New York Daily News.

The three sites are located directly on the water with breathtaking views of Lower Manhattan, Governors Island and the Statue of Liberty. The intent is to regenerate the existing warehouses and build new structures to house the creative worlds, offices for digital media and possibly a hotel.

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http://estate4.co.uk/portfolio/68-ferris/

[chris08876]

Updates on the Times Square Redevelopment (Plaza/streetscape):

All images taken via Earthcam by me:

Also, for the record of this compilation as it is a general development and hasn't been mentioned before:

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Current Status: As of August 18th, 2014






Current Status: September 19th, 2014





And a bonus: Some sort of concert utilizing part of the new plaza that was complete.



We can really see how much the Bloomberg revitalization has added in terms of street life. This use to be all road, now there is plenty of walking space and room for street amenities. Although this is NYC, and sidewalk expansions will still be overcrowded.




Current Status: October 5th, 2014

Hopefully they finish the work near the street. The two lanes that are blocked are causing havoc traffic wise:

[Submariner]

Wow...a concert and construction going on in Times Square. I can't wait to walk through it!

[mrnyc]

a longtime hole in the ground eyesore is finally going up...

village green west
245 w14th st
it sez apts from $2.85M to $9.5M

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Project: 68 Ferris




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http://estate4.co.uk/portfolio/68-ferris/

Don't build there, please. Red Hook was badly damaged during sandy.

They could raise the street level to protect those soon-to-collapse factories or something.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Don't build there, please. Red Hook was badly damaged during sandy.

They could raise the street level to protect those soon-to-collapse factories or something.

You can't raise the entire neighborhood elevation (well you technically could but that would be preposterously expensive).

And obviously people will still build in Red Hook, even if there was a previous flood. If that were the standard by which we build/don't build, there would essentially be no waterfront development, anywhere in the world. Red Hook isn't even a particularly flood-prone neighborhood compared to others.

[chris08876]

Project: 3160 Park Avenue

3160 PARK AVENUE
Bronx, NY

3160 Park Avenue is a 240,000 square foot creative mixed-use development with 177 units of affordable housing and supportive retail. Located near the Grand Concourse and Yankee Stadium, the development will rise 12 stories and include 20,000 square feet of first floor retail space. Originally, the project was designed by another architect as a 20,000 sf retail center.

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http://www.ndarchitects.com/portfoli..._park_ave.html

[chris08876]

New Projects by: WASA Studios

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Project Set #1:

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Project: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center (Life Recovery Center)

Individual programs. Natural light is an essential feature of the interior environment, which fosters a sense of wellness and hopefulness, aided by a clear sense of spatial organization and access to external views. Through the use of natural light, simple expressive forms and the use of natural materials and color, we created a dignified and welcoming environment for these residents in recovery.

The building plan is a simple L-shape, wrapping around a rear garden and recreational space. One wing, housing the bedrooms and translucent-faceted walls of the group counseling rooms, is clad in white brick, while a smaller administration wing is clad in a dark brick. The building wings are tied together with randomly interspaced bands of windows and green spandrel glass accents to enliven the façades and animate this corner of the Bronx.

Project: Seward Park Development

In response to a competitive NYC RFP, our developer client commissioned us to design new buildings on three individual lots on Essex Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Each site is required to have specific mixes of residential, community and retail use, and each is to be scaled appropriately to the immediate urban context. Emphasis is on encompassing new models of commercial and residential uses such as micro-housing units, micro-retail on the ground floor for up-and-coming entrepreneurs and co-working rental bays for business start-ups, all to foster local economic development and community engagement.

Project: 421 Kent Avenue

On a full city block in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, WASA/Studio A, in association with think! architecture and design pllc, is designing a low-rise 215-unit residential complex for Xinyuan Real Estate Co., Ltd. (NYSE: XIN), a Chinese-owned real estate company. The building is seven stories and comprises many different unit types from townhouses to duplexes, and will vary in scale from one-bedroom apartments to four-bedroom luxury units with rooftop garden terraces and individual pools. The complex wraps around a landscaped interior courtyard with parking below and various other community functions occupying the ground floor. The scale, massing and materials utilized are being chosen to carefully relate to the industrial architectural legacy of the Williamsburg waterfront district.

Project: VIP Community Services

VIP Community Services, a Bronx-based not-for-profit specializing in substance-abuse treatment programs, commissioned the firm to design a 30,000 sf facility for 80 men in addiction recovery. The residential component of this new building occupies three floors sitting atop two floors of support spaces. The intention is to create a physical environment to support the recovery process and to enhance a sense of dignity for the residents. A rear landscaped yard will provide recreational space and a planting garden maintained by the residents.

Project: Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) ( Kupferberg Center for the Performing Arts)

The goal of this project was to create an identity for the Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts at Queens College, which operates out of three different campus buildings and involves five different venues. The venues include: the Goldstein Theater, the Colden Auditorium, the Colden Amphitheater, the LeFrak Concert Hall and the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. Upgrades to the Goldstein Theater involve a new electric-winch fly system, a new split orchestra-pit extension, an upgrade of the theatrical lighting system, a new entry and lobby, renovated dressing rooms and a renovated shop.

Enhancements to the Colden Auditorium incorporate a new electric-winch fly system, new backstage access, a new entry and lobby and renovated backstage facilities. The reconstruction of the Colden Amphitheater includes new terraced seating, a new entry and lobby, a new over-stage grid, new lighting positions, ADA accessibility, projection capability and a new sound system. Upgrades to the LeFrak Concert Hall involve a new entry sequence with an informal lobby performance space, improved acoustics and upgraded HVAC systems for better environmental controls and acoustics.

Enhancements to the Godwin-Ternbach Museum include an enlarged gallery space, museum quality lighting system, museum-quality HVAC system, new entry sequence and improved public amenities. The entire project incorporates major new landscape and environmental graphic-design elements, which creates a more unified and consistent institutional identity for the center.

Project: First Republic Bank

WASA/Studio A was commissioned by First Republic Bank (FRB), an expanding California-based financial institution, to design its first new building branch in New York City. This new glass pavilion, at the intersection of Lexington Ave. and 79th Street in Manhattan, largely consists of a custom glass curtain wall system bound by blue limestone service towers, wrapping around and enclosing a natural wood interior. Our design is meant to reflect the FRB President’s desire to create an open and transparent banking hall in order to draw in customers and to further the Bank’s brand of personalized customer service. Graphics promoting the brand are integrated into the building’s interior and exterior, enhanced by concealed lighting. At night, the building glows and projects a warm, natural sensibility, acting like a beacon at this busy urban location.

Project: Odyssey House

Odyssey House, a major substance abuse and mental health services non-profit agency, commissioned WASA/Studio A to design a full gut renovation of their 60,000 square foot 100 year old building on Wards Island, New York. This multi-phased, $20M project will house 240 people in residential treatment programs, including 120 women and children, 20 young women and 100 elderly single men and women. In addition to the residential facilities will be recreational and fitness rooms, a large dining hall and commercial kitchen, group rooms, counseling offices, admin. offices and a large new multi-purpose room addition on the building’s third floor. The entire building envelop will be restored and upgraded, much of the building interior will be re-configured and all new MEP systems will be introduced.

Project: 25 Washington Street

WASA/Studio A is converting the current structure, consisting of six-story exposed interior timber framing and exterior load-bearing masonry walls into a residential building, including a two top-story addition at the top of the building. The overall bulk of this building conversion amounts for a 100,000 sf residential floor area, 110 apartments, 5,000 sf commercial/retail area, 4,500 sf rooftop recreation area, private terraces, indoor fitness center, residential/bikes storage and other amenities.

Among the unusual features of this residential design are the apartments’ headroom—between 11 ft. and 13 ft.—with the exposed massive timber columns, beams and wood planking ceilings. In order to meet the “light & air” requirements for the residential use, three inner courts are carved-out at the back of the building.

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Renderings and Sources for all projects listed: http://www.wasallp.com/#/projects/all?p=22
Note: Features multiple renderings for the projects from different angles.

[Perklol]

Nice building #335

Come to think of it, this seems like the first affordable housing building in the Bronx?

[chris08876]

This building posted several months ago received an update recently on the design.
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Originally Posted by chris08876

Construction Updates on projects posted earlier: 10 Bond (See first page), and the Karim Rashid Building (See first page).
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Karim Rashid Building Breaks Ground; 10 Bond in Contract

KARIM RASHID BUILDING UPDATE:

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Update:

"Maybe with a different color people will think it is part of the neighborhood," HAP Investments' Eran Polack said last month of the ill-advised Karim Rashid-designed building that his company is constructing in East Harlem. The new color scheme debuted today, and, going by the rendering, it looks like HAP is also hoping that it will fit in more if you can't see what the surrounding buildings look like. The winning design (out of five choices) in HAP's online poll is white with magenta trim (or, as they put it, "Translucent Cirrus with graduated Magenta balcony trim"). 297 votes were cast, leading the Wall Street Journal to declare that the people of East Harlem "are OK with white balconies trimmed in magenta."

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October 7, 2014
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/1...lor_palate.php

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Nice building #335

Come to think of it, this seems like the first affordable housing building in the Bronx?

Theres several with respect to affordable housing, but the key note is that it will only increase dramatically. DeBlasio is focusing on certain neighborhoods, and changing the zoning to make affordable housing quicker and easier. Expect a lot more construction in the Bronx. Both on the midrise level, and highrise level. As a refuge from the expensive prices of Manhattan, I see it as the next boom town. Certain projects such as "La Centra" will add 1000's of units. Several more in the pipeline.

Some of the changes or updates with affordable housing could be seen here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=211193&page=4

[chris08876]

Project: Pelham Park Manor

At 1680 Pelham Parkway, on the eastern end of the grassy cross-Bronx thoroughfare, a new building permit application was filed on Monday for a rare (albeit increasingly less so) 130-unit apartment building, to be rented out largely at market rates. The permit was filed by Badaly Architects on behalf of the Stagg Group, a builder active in neighborhoods across the borough for nearly 20 years. The project will be branded as Pelham Park Manor.

Project: 123 Melrose Street

Now, plans have been filed for a new building set to rise on the southernmost block, bounded by Melrose Street, Stanwix, Noll and Evergreen Avenue. There, at 123 Melrose Street, Read Property Group plans to build an eight-story, 385-unit residential building, according to a new building permit application filed this morning. The filing is just one part of what will eventually be a 10-building complex housing nearly 1,000 apartments, 30 percent of which will be let at below-market rates, according to the developer’s agreement with the city.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/10/rev...-building.html
http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/10/per...-bushwick.html