NEW YORK | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Permits Filed: 292 Fifth Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON FEBRUARY 18TH 2014 AT 10:00 AM


292 Fifth Avenue -- image via Google Maps

Fresh permits reveal a 20-story hotel and residential building is about to begin rising at 292 Fifth Avenue, in the booming NoMAD neighborhood. The existing structure will soon be demolished, with permits for that portion of the job filed in early January. The architect of record is Rawlings, and the developer is DDG.
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Given DDG’s involvement in the project, a stellar design is likely, and Rawlings’ track record is also impressive. DDG’s recent developments include 345 Meatpacking, which has a brick and bronze facade; the firm’s vision for 100 Franklin Street is similarly fantastic, and DDG’s collective portfolio signals a bright future for 292 Fifth Avenue.

The development will total just over 52,000 square feet, with the bulk of space to be utilized by the new hotel, which — per the Schedule A — will span the building’s first fourteen floors, with 130 rooms. Approximately 10,000 square feet will be dedicated to twelve residences on the top four floors.

No completion date has been announced, but with demolition and construction permits pending approval, work is likely imminent. DDG’s latest project will add another feather to the neighborhood’s proverbial cap, and confirms NoMAD’s continued evolution into one of the most desirable areas of Manhattan.

[KevininPhx]

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[Hypothalamus]

Teaser site up with pricing for Toll Brothers’ 1110 Park Avenue in UES
By: Joyce Chen FEBRUARY 18, 2014

1110 Park Avenue by Toll Brothers City Living is slowly rolling out marketing with construction signage and a teaser site.

The 11-unit, 16-story project in the Upper East Side will offer three- to five-bedroom condominiums, according to the teaser. Pricing will range from approximately $10 million to $35 million and over. Sales are anticipated to start in mid-2014, and construction is expected to finish in Spring 2015.

Barry Rice Architects is designing the project. To make way for the new development, Toll Brothers purchased and demolished two buildings at 1108 and 1110 Park, Curbed reported.

1110 Park, a 25-foot-wide red brick townhouse, was formerly home to the abstract artist Judith Rothschild. The property traded for $16.5 million, the New York Observer reported. 1108 Park, a four-story townhouse that had belonged to a Joseph Bogen since 1976, sold for $13 million. Each building came with 20,000 square feet of available air rights.

We stopped by the construction site this weekend and took these shots:

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 18 West 56th Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON FEBRUARY 19TH 2014 AT 9:30 AM


18 West 56th Street's mud-splatted rendering -- photo by Andrew McKeon

Renderings have been posted for a hotel that is about to begin rising at 18 West 56th Street; the building will stand 16 stories and 196 feet tall. Stonehill & Taylor is the architectural firm of record, while Firmdale Hotels is developing the site.

Excavation is well underway, and work on the foundation is about to begin; permits for the development were partially approved in December of last year. With 86 rooms, 18 West 56th Street’s closest comparison may actually on the other end of the island, as Stonehill & Taylor and Firmdale also worked together on the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo, which has a similar aesthetic.
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Details remain lacking — and mud splattered across the rendering does not help — but at least the project is progressing. Completion is expected in the fall of 2015.

Excavation at 18 West 56th Street — photo by Andrew McKeon

[Perklol]

1110 Park Avenue South blends in right with her pe-war beauties. Fantastic job.

[Perklol]

There is more info on John Cats. developments on Curbed. I don't know how to link it but if someone could help that would be very nice.

[Crawford]

The developer plans a 40-floor condo-rental in Brooklyn, an adjacent 15 floor rental in Brooklyn, a three building 20-something floor complex in Coney Island, and a 20-something floor residential building on the West Side of Manhattan.

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by Crawford

The developer plans a 40-floor condo-rental in Brooklyn, an adjacent 15 floor rental in Brooklyn, a three building 20-something floor complex in Coney Island, and a 20-something floor residential building on the West Side of Manhattan.

The 40 story building is in Downtown Brooklyn if I remember correctly. That is sort of good news even though I would prefer something taller. Say 700ft.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

The 40 story building is in Downtown Brooklyn if I remember correctly. That is sort of good news even though I would prefer something taller. Say 700ft.

Well there's an 860-foot tower in Lower Manhattan that's about to be announced, so you'll get something across the river.

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Well there's an 860-foot tower in Lower Manhattan that's about to be announced, so you'll get something across the river.

Which tower is this? Is it the one near the South St. Seaport?

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Which tower is this? Is it the one near the South St. Seaport?

Nope, it's on the Hudson River side. And it has a wacky design.

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 405 East 60th Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON FEBRUARY 21ST 2014 AT 9:00 AM


405 East 60th Street today, image via Google Maps

The first renderings for 405 East 60th Street on the Upper East Side have been posted on SLCE’s website; the building will be developed and occupied by Ronald McDonald House — which serves pediatric cancer patients — though plans have been on-hold for several years.
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Renderings of the new Ronald McDonald House depict a 16-story structure that will be fairly simple, with aesthetics characterized by large, floor-to-ceiling windows. 405 East 60th Street traversed ULURP early last decade, and the site has all the allowances needed for the new development, though DOB permits were disapproved in 2008. Nevertheless, those documents revealed the new RMH will have slightly over 90,000 square feet of space, with 74 units.

Recent filings – approved on the 14th — indicate the existing 405 East 60th Street will see “facade and roof repairs,” possibly as a pre-cursor to demolition. No completion date for the re-development has been announced, but per SLCE, construction was initially planned for 2010.

405 East 60th Street — image via SLCE


405 East 60th Street — image via SLCE

[Hypothalamus]

Junior’s Brooklyn Site Will Be Sold to Developer, but Restaurant Will Return
By VIVIAN YEEFEB. 20, 2014


Junior’s Restaurant in Brooklyn, an unofficial landmark, will be torn down by a developer, but its owner says he plans to reopen it. | Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

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As news spread that Junior’s is planning to sell its building to a developer who will most likely transform the two-story restaurant into a luxury apartment tower — an alchemy repeating itself all over Brooklyn — there occurred a run on cheesecake.

“We literally had to cut cheesecakes quicker because people were buying them with a fervor this morning,” marveled Alan Rosen, who took over Junior’s from his father and uncle, who inherited it from their father, Harry Rosen. “People were under the impression we were closing, that we’re closing imminently. It was like a cheesecake panic.”
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In fact, Mr. Rosen plans to strike a deal with a developer that will allow Junior’s to return as a ground-floor tenant, marrying the restaurant’s midcentury aesthetic, unfashionable quaintness and middling prices to a sumptuous, showy spire.
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The developer could build about 102,000 square feet, several times the current size, said the broker, Robert Knakal of Massey Knakal Realty Services.

“Land values in that part of Brooklyn have skyrocketed, and they are sitting on a tremendous” — as in, tremendously valuable — “piece of property,” Mr. Knakal said, predicting it would sell at a record price for Brooklyn. “We view it as the best development site in Downtown Brooklyn.” He has already received substantial interest, he said.
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[Hypothalamus]

City starts process to seize East Harlem Urban Renewal Area
But officials at EDC optimistic they can reach a deal with remaining tenants
Julie Strickland February 21, 2014 02:02PM


Rendering of the East Harlem Media, Entertainment and Culture Center

The city has commenced eminent domain proceedings with the ultimate goal of building a $700 million East Harlem Media, Entertainment and Cultural Center.

The city’s Planning Commission in 2008 approved the acquisition of property on which the 1.7 million-square-foot project would rise. Upon completion, the center was originally imagined to include affordable housing, retail and cultural space. But the developers have since run into problems.

General Growth, one of the project’s developers, went bankrupt, and Archstone was acquired by Equity and Avalon Bay in late 2012. Meanwhile, property taxes skyrocketed during the delay, and a blight designation — in place since the spot was classified as an Urban Renewal Area in 1968 — thwarted property owners’ ability to sell.

Feb. 16 would have marked the city’s deadline for using eminent domain in the area. But officials at the Economic Development Corporation launched the process Feb. 12, saying the tool would be used “only as a last resort.” The EDC hopes instead to negotiate sales agreements with property owners, a spokesperson told DNAinfo.

“We have already begun the negotiation process with the remaining tenants, and would vastly prefer to reach a deal with them,” an EDC spokesman told the news site.

126th and Third Ave:

Photo credit: DNAinfo/Jeff Mays

125th and Third Ave:

Photo credit: DNAinfo/Jeff Mays

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Well there's an 860-foot tower in Lower Manhattan that's about to be announced, so you'll get something across the river.

How did you know about that?

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

Junior’s Brooklyn Site Will Be Sold to Developer, but Restaurant Will Return

Another tower in Downtown Brooklyn! I hope this one makes it above 200 m.

[Hypothalamus]

NY Daily News:

Ruben Diaz Jr. calls for redevelopment of South Bronx waterfront
The borough president and SoBRO have preliminary plans to redevelop the Lower Concourse
BY DENIS SLATTERY / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014, 2:00 AM


A preliminary rendering of one of the waterfront properties along the Harlem River in the Port Morris section of the South Bronx.

Imagine walking over to the waterfront on a hot summer night, putting down a blanket and watching a movie under the stars, steps from Yankee Stadium. Or moving into a gleaming new tower with stunning views of the Manhattan skyline and ready access to the Harlem River.

Those plans — and others — are far from fruition, but Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. believes they’re closer than one might imagine.

At his annual State of the Borough address, Diaz called for an industrial stretch of Exterior St. between 138th St. and 149th St. to be transformed into a mixed-use waterfront district that he likened to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

“Bronxites should have quality waterfront access, and this project could make that happen,” Diaz said.

The former manufacturing zone was rezoned in 2009 by the city Planning Commission to allow for commercial and residential redevelopment.

The non-profit South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, or SoBRO, used a state grant to study 15 properties within the so-called Lower Concourse Special Harlem River Waterfront District.

The planning report was finished in January, and now Diaz will use it as a blueprint to start drumming up support among city agencies and developers.

The site could be used for more than 2,000 units of housing, 1.5 million square feet of commercial space and 500,000 square feet of community facility space, public parks and waterfront access, the group said in its preliminary analysis.

“The current proposal provides this community, and the affected property owners, with a vision for the future of this waterfront and the road map of how the vision can become a reality,” said Lourdes Zapata, the senior vice president of SoBRO.

The group has been meeting with property owners to gauge interest, Zapata said, and at least two have expressed interest.
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Artist's rendering of waterfront development along the Harlem River in the South Bronx.

[chris08876]

Good to see the Bronx getting these very large developments. We have two others proposed
which total 15 towers. Based on this rendering above this post, Bronx has 19 potential high-rise towers of mostly affordable housing which include 1000's of units.

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Construction Update: 81 Fleet Place
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON FEBRUARY 26TH 2014 AT 6:00 AM

Construction is making rapid progress at 81 Fleet Place in Downtown Brooklyn, where a 15-story residential building is now rising. The architect of record is Dattner, and billionaire John Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Group is developing the site.

An on-site rendering of the project reveals a fairly typical design, and the facade will be a mix of brick and glass. Permits indicate the development’s first floor will be dedicated to retail, with 13,000 square feet of space; after a setback, the residential portion rises above, and 81 Fleet Place will have a total of 205 units, spanning 159,785 square feet.

Curbed posted additional renderings of the site back in 2012, which give a better look at the project’s L-shaped configuration. Catsimatidis — whose name even the DOB permits mis-spell — owns several lots in the neighborhood, and 81 Fleet Place will be the first of three new developments to rise in the vicinity.

Red Apple’s additional neighborhood projects include a 213-unit building at 180 Myrtle Avenue, and an as-yet unannounced tower at 86 Fleet Place, which will be the tallest of the group.

Per the on-site signage, completion of 81 Fleet Place is expected by the end of this year, though given the current level of progress, a 2015 opening date may be more realistic.

[chris08876]

Murray Hill's New 19-Story Rental Tower Will Look Like This

SK Development Group and CB Developers are planning a 213-foot-tall, 19-story mixed-use building at 200 East 39th Street, on the corner of 39th and Third Avenue, and now, thanks to a rendering spotted by BuzzBuzz, we know what that building will look like. While before we got a look at the shape of the Rawlings Architects-designed tower, we can now see the materiality of the facade, which looks like it's going to be a couple different shades of gray. Overall, not much to get too excited or upset about. It looks fairly similar to another Rawlings project, 14 West 14th Street, only much taller.

The building should be completed in January, 2015, according to SK Development's website. It will have 6,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor with 91 units—a mix of studios, 1BRs, and 2BRs—above. According to CB Developers, the building will include both market rate and affordable housing apartments. Building amenities (which will presumably be available to both types of tenants, although who knows these days) will include a gym, laundry facilities, and outdoor terraces.