NEW YORK | 108-110 Port Richmond Avenue | FT | 8 FLOORS
Project: 108-110 Port Richmond Avenue
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The plan would turn 108-110 Port Richmond Ave. into a 77-unit apartment building with a mix of studios, one bedrooms and two bedrooms. Fifty of the units would house mentally ill patients and the rest will be affordable housing, DiTommaso said.
Hotel developer Sam Chang of McSam Hotel Group has just broken ground on a 114-key hotel at 324 West 44th Street, and YIMBY has a first look at the development, which will be a Marriott TownPlace Suites.
Designed by none other than Gene Kaufman, the monochromatic building will rise seven stories on a through-block lot from 44th to 43rd Streets between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. The 44,500-square-foot development will have two wings connected by a landscaped courtyard, but one will be narrower than the other because the property is irregularly shaped.
The lot is 50 feet wide on 44th Street, but only 25 feet wide on 43rd, making it hard for the architect to max out the property’s development rights. Since the property is located in the Special Clinton District, new buildings are capped at seven stories, further limiting the options for massing and setbacks.
This looks great but I wish the industry could do a little better camouflaging expansion joints in masonry. These look bloody awful. Also wasn't this addition supposed to be metallic?
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A company known for building large-scale projects at rapid speed across Brooklyn is significantly downshifting for its latest development.
Adam America Real Estate, which has constructed or planned high-rises with dozens of rentals and condominiums, is now at work on just five units, all townhouses, in Boerum Hill.
The four-bedroom homes, which face Bond Street at State Street, will also have trappings that one might not associate with urban housing. Terraces will be equipped with gas grills; laundry rooms will have side-by-side washers and dryers; and each owner will have a private garage, where electric cars can be charged.
“These townhouses are almost suburban,” said Brendan Aguayo, the managing director of Halstead Property Development Marketing, which is handling sales at the project, on a quiet block near busy thoroughfares like Atlantic Avenue.
This looks great but I wish the industry could do a little better camouflaging expansion joints in masonry. These look bloody awful. Also wasn't this addition supposed to be metallic?
Its a coat of aluminum. One is brick/terracotta, the other has a coat of aluminum. The idea behind it is to have an older looking structure in harmony with a newer, future looking mid rise.
The new build will be five stories, with shops on the ground floor. It will look quite similar to the red brick building that was here before, as a previously published rendering shows. The architect of record is Dattner, an award-winning firm well known for its designs for affordable buildings and schools.
Brearley, founded in 1884, plans to spend $107.5 million to raze three tenements and replace them with an eight-to-10 story facility. The building will house its lower school, science and music departments, an auditorium and a gym, according to its application with the city. With 700 students from kindergarten through the 12th grade, Brearley says it’s outgrown its building on East 83rd Street, which was constructed in 1929 for 440.
“For the past 20 years, Brearley has been thoughtfully searching for the best way to add badly-needed educational space to accommodate its student body,” Rahul Tripathi, the school’s chief financial officer, said in an e-mailed response to questions.
ew renderings have emerged for yet another Chelsea development that will have the outrageous amenity of private pools. Just blocks away from Soori High Line, which first brought the aquatic amenity to the pricey neighborhood, Six Sigma is developing the six-apartment condo conversion at 435 West 19th Street. Formerly home to the photography studios and sound stages of CityStage, the existing five-story building will undergo a thorough renovation by the firm helmed by Pritzker Prize-winner I.M. Pei's son, Pei Partnership, reports 6sqft. During the renovation, three floors will be added to the building and its brick facade will be replaced with one of glass and steel. If private pools wasn't enough of an amenity, the building will also have an electronic parking system similar to Annabelle Selldorf's Sky Garage. "It will probably be one of the most automated buildings" in the city, Six Sigma's president told The Real Deal in September.
Work has begun on on Six Sigma’s upcoming condo at 435 West 19th Street, and the head-to-toe renovation/addition of the 1924 building seems intent on housing all the most outrageous frills of recent West Chelsea builds under a single roof.
Boutique design-and-build firm Six Sigma acquired the 20,000-square-foot office building, once home to the photography studios and sound-stages of CityStage, for $21 million in August 2014. According to the developer’s website, Pei Partnership, a firm founded by the sons of renowned Chinese architect I.M. Pei, is crafting the design. Pei Partnership, not to be confused with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, was also the designers of The Centurion, the Midtown condo lavishly clad in a cascade of Burgundy limestone.
A new mixed-use building is coming to 802-806 Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The project is being developed by A-1 Properties, and it will have 5,700 square feet of retail space at street level and 44 rental apartments. Designed by J. Frankl Associates, it features a Tetris-like pattern of windows and balconies stacked diagonally on the building's facade. Completion is expected by fall 2016. Renderings show a Lexus and Aston Martin parked in front of the building, but it's doubtful that people renting apartments off the G train will be driving $150,000 cars.
LaGuardia Airport's four terminals will be consolidated into one hub and the entire facility will be moved south almost the length of two football fields, under a $4 billion plan proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday.
In addition, the airport will be connected to public transit via an AirTrain link and 24-hour ferry service. Delta Air Lines, which owns Terminals C and D, will be a "full partner" in the project, the governor said. (The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owns Terminals A and B, but leases B to Delta.)
The project, which will need to be approved by the Port Authority, will break ground in 2016, is expected to open to passengers in 2019 and will be fully completed 18 months after, Mr. Cuomo said at a luncheon hosted by the Association for a Better New York.
"New York will have the newest major airport in the United States," Mr. Cuomo said, alongside Vice President Joe Biden, who famously said that LaGuardia Airport was akin to a "Third World country" in describing the facility's many shortcomings.
It's a good day for New York City's airports. Not only did Governor Cuomo outline a massive makeover for LaGuardia Airport, but he also revealed the future of JFK Airport's iconic TWA Flight Center, the Eero Saarinen-designed masterpiece that has sat vacant for 14 years. It's been known for awhile that the terminal would one day house a hotel, but who would make that happen or what it would look like remained a mystery until today. MCR Development will turn the historic structure into The TWA Flight Center Hotel, a facility with 505 hotel rooms, 40,000 square feet of meeting space, six to eight dining establishments, and a 10,000-square-foot observation deck. In a statement, CEO Tyler Morse says the development "will celebrate and preserve" the building, "returning the landmark to its original glory and reopening it to the public. [...] Whether staying the night or simply exploring, international visitors and New Yorkers alike will be able to experience the magic of the Jet Age in this extraordinary mid-century icon."
Issac and Stern designed the project, which will have 37 apartments spread across 25,512 square feet of residential space. The building will likely be rentals, with an average unit of just 689 square feet. The first floor will have one unit, and floors two through seven will hold five to seven units each.
The ground floor will also include storage space for 13 bikes, recreation space, and 19 parking spots—exactly the amount required by zoning. And while retail is allowed on some of the neighboring blocks of Dekalb and Tompkins, zoning doesn’t allow it here. So like many developments in Bed-Stuy, the ground floor won’t engage with the street, offering parking and a lobby instead of commercial space.
The car-friendly zoning rules still call for parking, even though there are two G train stops within five blocks of 740 Dekalb, at Myrtle-Willoughby and Bedford-Nostrand Avenues.
A rendering is up at the construction site for the new apartment building that will rise at 369 Berry Street in Williamsburg. The design looks quite busy, and will use at least four different materials on the facade.
A tweedy brick in grey, black and beige will make up most of the facade. There will also be orange brick, beige tile and smaller multi-colored salt-and-pepper-colored tile (or possibly rock veneer). Colonial style sconces accent the entry, and a glass wall tops the structure.
The applicant of record is architect Charles Mallea, who is becoming quite prolific in north and central Brooklyn, with more than a dozen projects in Bed Stuy, Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick. Projects include a controversial apartment building with mirrored cracks at 410 Tompkins Avenue and more traditional buildings at 75 Ralph Avenue and 774 Bushwick Avenue.
Plans here call for 10 apartments spread over 8,481 square feet of residential space. There will also be 2,383 square feet of commercial space and 2,627 square feet devoted to a community facility.
The building will feature two duplex penthouse units and a roof deck. Many of the units will have balconies.
NEW YORK | 148-46 Hillside Avenue | FT | 7 + 5 FLOORS
Project: 148-46 Hillside Avenue
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Two buildings, one commercial, one residential, will rise on a through-block site halfway between two F train stops at Sutphin and Parsons Boulevards. A five-story building with 8,850 square feet of retail and 7,037 square feet of community facility space will rise on the Hillside Avenue half of the lot. The first two floors will have retail, followed by a community center and medical offices on the top three stories.
Construction on a new seven-story building featuring roof terraces is under way on a formerly vacant South Williamsburg lot.
The new mixed-use development at 49 Broadway, at the corner of Wythe Ave., will rise 70 feet and include both residential and commercial space, according to Department of Buildings records.
Commercial and community facility space, including a doctor's office, will take up the first two floors of the building, according to the filings. The second commercial floor will include a roof terrace.
Additionally, a cellar level will have room for nine parking spaces, the filings stated.
The rest of the property, designed by architect Jeffrey Kamen, will house 17 residential units and recreational space available for all tenants without a fee.
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