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[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 433 First Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON APRIL 15TH 2014 AT 7:00 AM


433 First Avenue, image via KPF

Renderings have been posted for NYU’s new facility at 433 First Avenue; the building will soon be home to both the NYU College of Nursing, and a portion of the University’s College of Dentistry. Per DOB filings, the architect of record is EYP, though KPF appears to have led the project’s design.

NYU’s page on the site indicates the new building will span 170,000 square feet, which permits corroborate; the structure will stand eleven stories and 162 feet tall, allowing generous ceiling heights.

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433 First Avenue’s facade will be glass and terra cotta, offering another example of the historic material’s recent comeback in New York City, where its usage is gaining significant visibility — perhaps most prominently at SHoP’s future 111 West 57th Street.

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Completion of 433 First Avenue is expected later this year.

433 First Avenue, image via KPF


433 First Avenue, image via KPF

[Hypothalamus]

This 37th Street Hotel May Be the Last McSam-Kaufman Collab
Tuesday, April 15, 2014, by Hana R. Alberts

It just might be the end of an era. The Commercial Observer reports that Sam Chang, proprietor of the extremely active McSam Hotel Group, has just secured a $25 million loan to acquire a development site on 37th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. Of course, he's tapped his frequent collaborator, the feared (by other architects) Gene Kaufman to design a 242-room hotel there. The brand is TBD, but it'll stand at 22 stories and house a gym, meeting room, and ground-floor restaurant or bar space.

The design at right for 326 West 37th Street is another refreshing departure for Kaufman, given that it's brick and the lower levels are clad in a greenery-wrapped exoskeleton.
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[Submariner]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

This 37th Street Hotel May Be the Last McSam-Kaufman Collab
Tuesday, April 15, 2014, by Hana R. Alberts

Proof that there is a god.

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 433 First Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON APRIL 15TH 2014 AT 7:00 AM


433 First Avenue, image via KPF




433 First Avenue, image via KPF


433 First Avenue, image via KPF

What took so long? I was around that area a couple of years ago and noticed the cement trucks and construction fences but nothing complete until now.

[Hypothalamus]

In Visionary/Never Built Projects:

NEW YORK | Urban Alloy Towers | FT | 38 FLOORS


CurbedNY


If this is an actual proposal, I guess we'll have the thread moved!

[chris08876]

Permits Filed: 12 West 55th Street

The first permits are up for a new development at 12 West 55th Street, though if recent news is any indication, the DOB filings do not tell the whole story. Curbed recently reported on rejected permits filed last year, and The New York Post covered the site back in 2009, when JD Carlisle acquired the site from Lincoln Properties. Perkins Eastman is now the architect of record, with Cornerstone Advisers representing ’12-18 West 55th Street Pre-Development,’ which is likely an alias for JD Carlisle.

Yesterday’s filings indicate that 12 West 55th Street will soon stand six stories tall, with an interior spanning 27,204 square feet. The entirety of the project will be residential, with four residences in total; simple math gives an average unit size of nearly 7,000 square feet, which would be enormous.

As Curbed and the Post previously reported, Carlisle has amassed a relatively large assemblage, with air rights totaling over 100,000 square feet; the previous plan for the site indicated a 55-unit and 22-story building would rise in place of the current townhomes.

It would seem that the most recent DOB documents are missing a large portion of the site’s available FAR rights. Given the assemblage spans from 12-18 West 55th Street, additional filings at another address appear to be likely. Regardless of semantics, Perkins Eastman’s involvement is a positive sign for the future building’s appearance, and if the current filings do come to fruition, units averaging nearly 7,000 square feet will command a top-notch design.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/04/permits-filed-12-west-55th-street.html

[chris08876]

A mid rise development in Brooklyn:

The filings indicate that 802 Myrtle Avenue will span 31,201 square feet, with a 76 square foot commercial component to be located in the project’s cellar, giving it the smallest claim to ‘mixed-use’ possible. The remainder of the building will have 46 residences, spanning eight stories; the structure will stand 94 feet in total, and ceiling heights will be surprisingly generous compared to typical new developments in the neighborhood.
While much of Bedford-Stuyvesant is dominated by pre-war architecture, the vicinity of 802 Myrtle Avenue was decimated during the time of Robert Moses, and the Marcy Houses are located directly across the street. Positive changes are gradually occurring across the entire neighborhood, and developments like 802 Myrtle will go a long ways towards bettering the area’s reputation, which has typically revolved around the negative press surrounding its public housing.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/04/permits-filed-802-myrtle-avenue.html/1

[chris08876]

Smaller project, but the architecture is pretty sweet:

Check Out SOM's Mindboggling, $70 Million Net Zero School

Staten Island's planned "net zero" school, which was announced in 2011 and broke ground in 2012, is taking shape. With P.S. 62 slated to open in the fall of 2015, housing 444 pre-K through fifth-grade students, exciting (and very technical) details about the $70 million, 68,680-square-foot project have emerged via architecture powerhouse Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which has renderings and details posted on its website. The Wall Street Journal dove into the nitty-gritty of the energy-saving design and amenities. The school "will produce at least as much energy as it consumes over the course of a year, and possibly even be able to sell energy back to the grid." That's made a reality by several measures: a football field-sized array of more than 2,000 solar panels; a wind turbine, "energy-generating exercise equipment"; LED lights with motion sensors; skylights as another light source; and special kitchen equipment and HVAC systems. Get this: geothermal wells will take advantage of 50-degree groundwater year-round, using it to help heat and cool the building. N.B.:

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/16/check_out_soms_mindboggling_70_million_net_zero_school.php

[Hypothalamus]

Morris Bailey’s JEMB buys Brooklyn lot with 185K sf
$38.5 million deal made for site across from City Point

April 16, 2014 02:15PM
Mark Maurer


420 Albee Square and Morris Bailey

JEMB Realty picked up a Brooklyn parking lot with 185,000 buildable square feet for nearly $38.5 million.

The lot at 420-428 Albee Square sits across the street from the City Point megadevelopment in Downtown Brooklyn. The Girard family owned it for years, while a parking operator held a long-term lease. CPEX brokers Sean Kelly and Timothy King represented the sellers in the deal, which closed at $205 per buildable square foot.

The buyer also owns 75 Broad Street, which gained new tenants in TV production company NorthSouth Productions and pasta company De Cecco earlier this year.

[Hypothalamus]

Demolition filed...



Water Street Building to Be Razed for Long-Awaited Hotel
Wednesday, April 16, 2014, by Jessica Dailey

Plans for a hotel at 6 Water Street have been in the works since prolific developer Sam Chang purchased the property back in 2008, and it looks like they are finally moving forward—but Chang is no longer involved. No progress on a hotel was made until last year when Chang's company finally filed plans for a 29-story, Gene Kaufman-designed hotel. Construction permits were approved in February, but then in March, Chang decided to give up the project and sold the site to the Magna Hospitality Group for $44 million. Now it seems that the new owner is finally ready to get to work; full demolition permits for the existing five-story building, located at the corner of Moore Street directly across from One New York Plaza, were issued this Monday.

Does a new owner mean we can expect a better design? Probably not. The Real Deal notes that Chang has handed off projects to Magna in the past, and the end product has been the usual, kind of ugly, very boring chain hotel (for example, the Sheraton on Canal Street and a Holiday Inn Express in Midtown). No renderings have been released yet for 6 Water Street, but a massing diagram shows a standard rectangle. It will be 298 feet tall and hold 249 guest rooms. Any and all photos of the building coming down are more than welcome on the tipline.

[Perklol]

Shame. I would have preferred an office tower or an affordable housing building.

[Hypothalamus]

SL Green looks to sell mixed-use Third Avenue site
Sources say property might sell for upwards of $100M

April 17, 2014 06:35PM
By Katherine Clarke


Bob Knakal and 985-989 Third Avenue

Major office landlord SL Green is looking to sell a development site on the southeast corner of East 59th Street and Third Avenue directly across the street from Bloomingdale’s department store, The Real Deal has learned.

The parcel has a combined 90,000 buildable square feet and could be developed into a mixed-use retail and residential tower.

Bob Knakal and Clint Olsen of Massey Knakal Realty Services are marketing the site. While Knakal said there was no official asking price, an industry insider said SL Green would be seeking close to $100 million.

A spokesperson for SL Green declined to comment on the listing.

The site is comprised of three separate buildings, at 985, 987 and 989 Third Avenue. SL Green acquired the main site for $18 million in 2012 but later snapped up the air rights required to build the prospective tower.

It was not clear is SL Green had originally intended to develop the site itself.

A new owner could even build an additional 21,000 square feet, which could be used to beef up the property’s residential component, if they were to receive an inclusionary housing bonus.

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A developer would probably want 983 and 981 Third Ave as well.

[Hypothalamus]

Hospitals become real estate powerhouses
NYC’s medical institutions are ramping up development of new mega-facilities and competing fiercely for leased space

April 01, 2014
By Janna Herron

For example, NYU Langone Medical Center on First Avenue in the 30s, is currently modernizing its flagship facility, Tisch Hospital, while also constructing a new 800,000-square-foot acute care facility that will link to Tisch, along with a 71,000-square-foot building that will generate its own electricity off-grid, also on the main campus.

©med.nyu.edu

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by Hypothalamus

A developer would probably want 983 and 981 Third Ave as well.

I thought that was Christian Slater at first!

[Hypothalamus]

FIELD CONDITION:

NYU 433 FIRST AVENUE / APRIL 19, 2014
April 21, 2014

[Hypothalamus]

Q LIC Coming to 24th St.
Monday, April 21, 2014, by Zoe Rosenberg

LONG ISLAND CITY—The massive, 421-apartment building with red terraces coming to 41-42 24th Street has a name, and its—drumroll please—Q. A tipster sent us a batch of photos that catch up on the construction progress and reveal the new name and teaser site. The building is expected to be complete in 2015.

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Permits Filed: 55 West 17th Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON APRIL 22ND 2014 AT 7:00 AM

The first permits are up for a new development at 55 West 17th Street, which Toll Brothers City Living is developing; The Real Deal reported on the site’s sale last October, when it was bought for $68.5 million. Morris Adjmi is listed as the architect of record.

Despite the lack of drawings or renderings, the filings give the first detailed look at what will likely house a host of high-end condominiums; the development’s total scope is 91,714 square feet, which includes 5,231 square feet of ground-level retail. The remaining 86,483 square feet will be split between 55 residences, averaging nearly 1,600 square feet apiece.

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55 West 17th Street will rise nineteen floors, and stand 200 feet in total; the Schedule A has additional specifics. The second and third levels will have six units each, with the number of residences per floor shrinking as the tower rises; duplexes begin on the 13th story, the 17th floor will be occupied by a single unit, and the penthouse will span the entirety of the top two levels.

No completion date has been announced, but the market in the neighborhood is increasingly lucrative; Walker Tower is located two blocks to the west, and that development has set astronomical price milestones. Given the demand for units in the vicinity — and the fact that demolition permits for the existing six-story building on-site were filed and approved in February — construction appears to be imminent.

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 180 Myrtle Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON APRIL 23RD 2014 AT 6:00 AM


180 Myrtle Avenue -- image by Dattner Architects

The first renderings are up for 180 Myrtle Avenue, which is being developed by John Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Group; the firm is behind several buildings in the immediate vicinity, including 218 Myrtle Avenue and 81 Fleet Place. Images for the project come from Dattner Architects, which is behind the site’s design.

Permits for 180 Myrtle Avenue were partially approved last week, indicating construction is about to begin; the development will total 170,312 square feet, including a 500 square foot community facility, and 10,485 square feet of ground-floor commercial. The remainder of the building will be divided between 191 units.

Dattner’s page on the development indicates a discrepancy with regards to the DOB filings, noting the project will measure 239,000 square feet; that number is likely the accurate figure, given the source.

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180 Myrtle Avenue will stand fifteen stories in total, and completion is expected in 2015.

180 Myrtle Avenue — image by Dattner Architects


180 Myrtle Avenue & surrounds — image by Dattner Architects

[Hypothalamus]

Crain's NY:

50-story tower could sprout on Junior's site
BY JOE ANUTA
APRIL 23, 2014 12:21 P.M.


JPMorgan Chase is thinking about selling the air rights associated with its two-story property at 9 DeKalb Ave. in downtown Brooklyn.
Photo by CoStar Group Inc..

JPMorgan Chase is weighing the sale of air rights on its landmarked branch in downtown Brooklyn to the developers of a site next door. The sale could pave the way for the rise of one of the tallest towers in the booming neighborhood.

The bank, which declined to comment on its plans, owns the turn-of-the-century, neoclassical building at 9 Dekalb Ave., a two-story property with hundreds of thousands of square feet of untapped development rights above it. Those rights could come in handy for whomever ends up buying the site next door, the longtime home of one of Brooklyn’s most famous eateries, Junior’s.

“Every developer in New York City is looking at this,” said Stephen Palmese, partner at Massey Knakal Realty Services, the firm selling the Junior’s site at the corner of Dekalb Avenue and Flatbush Avenue Extension.

The purchase of JPMorgan Chase’s air rights could pave the way for a roughly 385,000-square-foot tower on the Junior’s site, with as many as 50 stories. That would be just three stories shorter than the borough’s current record holder, the 53-story tower at 388 Bridge St., and one below the 51-story Brooklyner at 111 Lawrence St. The new building would likely house residential units and/or a hotel.

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While the Junior’s site is technically in the section proposed for commercial development, the demand for residential units downtown has skyrocketed during the latest real estate boom, pushing the price for development sites from about $50 per buildable square foot to about $350 in just the last three years, according to Mr. Palmese.

Robert Knakal, chairman of Massey Knakal, predicted in February that the parcel would fetch a record price per square foot, according to The New York Times, and with the possibility of adding air rights from the bank branch next door, that assertion only seems more likely.

Junior’s owners, meanwhile, have vowed to continue operating their restaurant in whatever building replaces its current digs.

Let NYguy determine if this is enough for a proposal

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by Hypothalamus

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 180 Myrtle Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON APRIL 23RD 2014 AT 6:00 AM


180 Myrtle Avenue -- image by Dattner Architects




180 Myrtle Avenue — image by Dattner Architects


180 Myrtle Avenue & surrounds — image by Dattner Architects

Almost getting to the 40 story tower.