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

[chris08876]

Project: 946 Myrtle Avenue

The DOB has just issued permits for 946 Myrtle, and when construction finishes, the building will have 132 units. The most recent filing reveals they’ll be spread across 163,631 square feet of residential space, for an average unit of 1,239 square feet, meaning condos are likely.

The development has gotten shorter and larger than the initial plans, which first called for a 10-story building with 166 apartments and 125,000 square feet of residential space. Its ground floor retail component has also grown from 7,000 to 8,300 square feet. We don’t know who the tenant will be, but with any luck, another grocery store will move in to replace the Key Food that’s being demolished. The building will still include a 107-space parking garage on the ground floor.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/06/rev...-bed-stuy.html

[chris08876]

Project: 205 North 9th Street (Recently Completed)

STATUS: Leasing
TOTAL NUMBER OF UNITS: 211 units

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http://www.thedriggs.com/index1.html

[sparkling]

150 North 12th Street, Williamsburg


150 North 12th Street, rendering by Michael Muroff Architect

REBECCA BAIRD-REMBA
JUNE 11, 2015

A piece of prime Williamsburg real estate at 150 North 12th Street has sat vacant, with only a foundation laid, since the recession swept away construction financing in 2008. But in the last few months, construction has re-started, and now YIMBY has a rendering for the seven-story rental building planned across the street from McCarren Park.

Mortgage brokers Eastern Union Funding helped resurrect the development with an $18,000,000 construction loan, as The Real Deal reported. Workers are installing the first floor for the 51-unit project, which will have 45,778 square feet of residential space. The average apartment will measure about 900 square feet. Since the building will be marketed as “high-end rentals,” Eastern Union director Jonathan Singer told us, that unit size sounds about right.

[chris08876]

Project: 555 West End Avenue (Conversion)

The Landmarks Preservation Commission is on board with the rooftop addition proposed for 555 West End Avenue, the former Catholic school at the corner of West 87th Street that developer and architect Cary Tamarkin is working to convert into an apartment building. This is the second time Tamarkin came to the commission; for the first go around, commissioners applauded the historic renovation planned for the facade, but they were less than thrilled with a proposal for a 10-foot penthouse addition with 17 feet of mechanicals. They sent Tamarkin pack to the drawing board to lessen the rooftop bulk, and his new proposal earned an approval from the commission.

Tamarkin's new plan removed the mechanicals from the bulkhead and placed them down in the courtyard. They will be covered up with a material that blends in with the rest of the outdoor space. The 10-foot penthouse was also slightly reduced to a height of 9 feet and 6 inches. With the mechanicals gone, the rooftop addition is now much less visible from the north and east ends of the site.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/0...on_is_a_go.php

[sparkling]

840 Fulton Avenue

Monday, June 15, 2015
Jeremiah Budin

The Daten Group purchased 840 Fulton Avenue, the site of a Clinton Hill gas station, last year, paying $7.4 million, and quickly announced plans to construct a $20 million rental building designed by KBA Architects. Now, Brownstoner has an updated rendering of that building, and it looks... not real great, although the immediate surrounding area is not exactly a bastion of inspiring architecture anyway. The seven-story building will contain 38 rental units (20 percent of which will be designated affordable) and 5,000 square feet of ground floor retail space.

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 11 North Moore

The 11-story condo building features 18 residences ranging from three bedrooms up to six bedrooms, with four duplex penthouses on the uppermost floors. While all penthouses feature outdoor terraces, the grand penthouse will feature a private pool, an increasingly popular amenity for new penthouses.

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http://fieldcondition.com/blog/2015/6/15/11-north-moore

[chris08876]

Project: 940 Madison Avenue (Apple Store)

The Apple Store has arrived on the Upper East Side, opening to the public over the weekend in a renovated 1922 neoclassical bank building at 940 Madison Avenue. This is Apple's sixth location in New York City with another location rumored for Williamsburg sometime in the next year.

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http://fieldcondition.com/blog/2015/...pper-east-side

[chris08876]

General Development: Flatiron District public plaza

“The funds would be use to reconstruct and permanently build out the interim plaza and pedestrian safety treatments from 21st Street to 25th Street along Broadway and Fifth Avenue,” according to a DOT spokesman. “Amenities will include new paving, accessibility enhancements, seating, planting, and lighting. The design and construction will be managed by the NYC Department of Transportation and the NYC Department of Design and Construction in coordination with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the Flatiron BID and the Madison Park Conservancy.”

Assuming the money comes through and the design phase commences later this year, it will last 12 to 18 months, Ms. Brown said. Construction could take upwards of three to five years, she added.

As for the design, Ms. Brown would only say that it calls for “a line of trees… simple surface materials where spaces would blend with neighborhood and [the ability to] showcase architecture.”

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http://commercialobserver.com/2015/0...plaza-project/

[chris08876]

Thread Update:

1) In an effort to keep the thread neat, if anybody spots broken links on some random page, send me a PM and I will fix them and/or update them with a better rendering. Same applies for the high rise thread. Sometimes the sites hosting them drops the image, and it just looks blah.

[chris08876]

Project: 1325 Herkimer Street

As development in Brooklyn pushes further east, apartment buildings are slowly filling the sleepy triangular piece of Bed Stuy known as Ocean Hill, near Broadway Junction in East New York. A tipster has sent YIMBY a rendering for one such development, a 32-unit building at 1325 Herkimer Street.

The five-story building will hold 22,000 square feet of residential space, for an average apartment of about 700 square feet. Like most developments in the neighborhood, it will likely be rentals. The first floor will have 16 parking spaces, which is exactly the amount required by zoning. The Schedule A reveals 16 bike parking spots and laundry in the cellar and a lounge and roof deck on the top floor.

The developer is Guy Iber, based in the Briarwood section of eastern Queens, and Issac and Stern are handling the design. They’ve created a surprisingly handsome building, with brick facade panels that match the feel of the block.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/06/rev...-bed-stuy.html

[chris08876]

Project: 482 Seneca Avenue

NY YIMBY has some new renderings of 482 Seneca Avenue, the residential development in Ridgewood with a facade that, on first examination, looked like it was covered in open wounds. It still looks like that, but now you can see it from more angles. The design is definitely audacious, but not necessarily pleasant—even YIMBY comes as close to criticism as it is constitutionally able, calling the it "certainly off-beat." The building, formerly a warehouse, will grow from two stories to four, according to permits (although it appears to be six stories in all the renderings) and will contain 20 units, likely rentals.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/0...pen_wounds.php

[chris08876]

Project: 1041-1047 Fulton Street

Developer David Kramer’s Hudson Companies has released renderings of the Clinton Hill affordable housing it plans at 1041-1047 Fulton Street and 911-917 Atlantic Avenue. As readers will recall, both buildings are part of a deal struck to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights Cadman Plaza branch library at 280 Cadman Plaza West, next door to 1 Pierrepont Plaza, where Hillary Clinton has her campaign headquarters.

The renderings, more details of the project, and additional renderings of the condo building were revealed on a new website about the project last week.

The Clinton Hill buildings will offer 114 affordable units as part of the $52,000,000 deal Hudson Companies has struck with the library to buy and redevelop its current site. Like the proposed library tower, they were designed by Marvel Architects.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...n-co-revealed/

[chris08876]

Project: 42-83 Hunter Street

Permits approved by the Department of Buildings on March 12, 2015 call for an 8-story, 15 unit purely residential build with a FAR of 4.93.2 That works out to 12,336 square feet of residential space.

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http://liccourtsquare.com/2015/06/22...olition-wraps/

[chris08876]

Project: 1290 Decatur Street

A new building containing 32 condo apartments. The building design features brick, wood wall panels, steel and glass windows and doors. The condos are one and two bedrooms, and the lower and upper floors are duplex apartments with recreation spaces. Stay tuned for more renderings of the interior design. The building is currently filed for approval at the NYC Department of Buildings.

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http://s3arc.com/post/113256910796/d...brooklyn-a-new

[chris08876]

Project: Gansevoort Row Development

Aurora Capital Associates and William Gottlieb Real Estate’s Neil Bender filed plans Wednesday for their Gansevoort Row commercial redevelopment project in the Meatpacking District.

The project calls for nine buildings at 46-74 Gansevoort Street, between Washington and Greenwich streets, to be renovated and converted into three main lots comprising almost 111,000 square feet of commercial space, according to a permit application filed with the city’s Department of Buildings.

The filing for one of the lots, at 46-50 Gansevoort Street, calls for roughly 15,300 square feet of retail space – with 46-48 Gansevoort Street remaining a two-story building and 50 Gansevoort Street expanded to three stories, according to Todd Poisson of BKSK Architects, the firm overseeing the project.

A second parcel at 52-58 Gansevoort Street will see 13,345 square feet of commercial space across the building’s existing two stories. Retail and a restaurant are slated for the first floor, while the office component will be located on the second floor.

The development’s third lot, at 60-74 Gansevoort Street, will total 82,097 square feet housing retail on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors. One part of the lot, at 60-68 Gansevoort Street, will be expanded from two stories to five and feature a set-back sixth story, Poisson said. Another part of the building, at 74 Gansevoort Street, will be enlarged to eight stories from the existing two. The entire project is contingent on approval from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission this fall, Poisson added, with BKSK “excited to start talking to community stakeholders about the design.”

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/06/....N2gxw3lL.dpuf

[chris08876]

Project: 504 Myrtle Avenue

A source at H.T.O. Architects, which is designing the building, confirmed that the firm plans for the building to reach seven stories with an additional rooftop level when completed, pending Department of Buildings approval.

Developers currently have permission to build floors one through six, and they will need to amend the plans to build any additional floors, according to the DOB.

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http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2015...-than-expected

[streetscaper]

Recent designs in BK definitely seem to be a step up from designs from a few years ago. And great designs are pushing south and east. Looking forward to all this great new infill!!

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 335 East 27th Street

Stacking has completed at Monadnock Development's micro unit apartment building at 335 East 27th Street, recently renamed Carmel Place. The last of the project's 66 modular units was lifted into place late last week. Designed by nARCHITECTS, the project is the first micro units apartment building in New York and consists of 55 studio apartments for both market rate and affordable tenants. Each apartment is one module, offering 260 to 360 square feet of space. All modules were fabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Now that the unit stacking has completed, the exterior brick facade should soon begin installation. Completion of the project is slated for late 2015.

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[chris08876]

Project: 92 Morningside Avenue

When 92 Morningside started the restoration process over a year ago, some strange additions had been presented on a rendering out front but now it looks like the penthouses are more minimalist in nature. We like that the original facade has been restored and even upon closer inspection, one can see that the formerly missing cornice at top is now being added on. This market rate development by 122nd Street with a direct view of Morningside Park will be one of the most notable residential buildings in the area once it all finishes up since the express trains are also only a couple of blocks away. We have also been told that the entire interior which had been damaged by fire had to be gutted and rebuilt but the final results should show that the efforts were well worth it.

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http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/20...penthouse.html

[Busy Bee]

^im not sure it's possible they've could have eff'd this up any more. What a strange strange design. How does shiz like this get approved?