Posted Oct 20, 2021, 10:16 PM
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Skyscrapers On Vacant Hell's Kitchen Lot Inch Closer To Reality
The skinny towers on 11th Avenue will include a hotel and hundreds of affordable housing units — and have the support of neighbors.
By Nick Garber
Oct 20, 2021
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The proposal to build a pair of residential skyscrapers on a long-vacant lot in Hell's Kitchen inched closer to reality this week, as the city developers filed plans to begin construction.
The plans call for a 680-foot-tall apartment tower containing 275 affordable units, as well as a hotel building standing 653 feet in height. The city-owned lot on 495 11th Ave., near West 139th Street, is known as "slaughterhouse" for the meatpacking business that stood there until the 1990s.
Unlike some contested rezonings, however, the slaughterhouse development is facing little, if any opposition — in no small part because neighbors have been given significant input into the project for years.
Starting in 2005, Community Board 4 began pushing to develop the site into affordable housing, winning a commitment from the city as part of the Hudson Yards rezoning process. It picked up again in 2015, as the city's Economic Development Corporation began seeking development proposals.
Community Board 4 voted unanimously to support the project in June, citing "decades-long advocacy" by board members and praising the plans' inclusion of affordable housing and a supermarket.
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The buildings will be designed by Gene Kaufman Architect, a firm whose other projects include the Radisson Hotel at 525 Eighth Ave., the Hilton Homewood Suites at 312 West 37th St. and a residential building at 76 Eighth Ave. in the West Village.
At the base of the two towers will be a commercial podium, consisting of nearly 8,900 square feet of office space, a 4,790-square-foot supermarket, a hotel lobby, a restaurant and a pedestrian walkway to the Javits Convention Center.
Construction will be completed in 2025, according to planning documents filed in April.
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