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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/03/...reet-overhaul/

Rudin weighs wide array of changes at 55 Broad Street
Proposed mixed-use tower would rise 742 feet

Mark Maurer
March 04, 2014

Images of the current tower...



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http://www.thesquarefoot.com/listing...eet/co-working

http://nypost.com/2014/03/03/tower-p...-broad-street/

Developer wants to bring modernity to Broad Street tower

By Lois Weiss
March 3, 2014

Who knows what will happen here...I'll let my imagination play with it for a while.

I've always loved the density of lower Manhattan, the small, closeness of the streets.


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They won't acquire the adjacent lot? (45 Broad)

Nyguy, could you also capitalize the letter b??

Whatever design they come up with, it had better make that Beaver "thing" look a helluvalot less like the horrid accident that it's turned out to be.

The developer would be crazy not to combine both parcels, so much can be done on this site, especially considering the location. That part of downtown needs an alpha tower to counter the WTC on the west side.

I so agree with you. Nothing says Gotham more than downtown manhattan, it just has more of a New York feel than midtown. I hope a new tower will rise down there and reclaim the skyline the way that fraud (1WTC) couldn't.

Why not, I'll throw it in for free...;)



The streets of Midtown, with its grid, have a unique aspect of New York as well. The randomness of the streets in the financial district offer more of a mystery, you never know what skyscraper is lurking "just around the bend". You become more intimate with the skyscrapers. Used to love it on weekends when no on else was around, but things have been changing rapidly.



It would make sense for them to go as high as possible, with the recent and coming residential towers, especially the conversions. I would love to have something tall enough to add a little balance to the lower Manhattan skyline, but we may be getting to far ahead of ourselves. Still, it would be nice to see Downtown answer the residential supertalls of Midtown.

I have heard the saying that the real New York is south of Houston St. from people who live their. Midtown is nice but Lower Manhattan has more of a historical feeling to it. Either way, I love both. :cheers:

I've been to the Starbucks in 55 Broad a few times while visiting the area. The adjacent empty lot is quite the eyesore and I'd love to see it combined with this site.

Usually what people meant by that was the lack of a "touristy" feel Downtown, although that is hard to distinguish these days. This area of lower Manhattan, south of Wall Street is the original New York (or New Amsterdam if you like).

But what you should know is there are millions of people, from Brooklyn to Queens, and even the Bronx, who will tell you that the real New York is not in Manhattan at all, and I tend to agree with those people, having lived in 4 of the 5 boroughs. Manhattan may be the heart, but the soul of the city is in its outer boroughs, where the vast majority of the more than 8 million live real lives. One of the things about living in Manhattan is that you don't get the complete New York experience - you can live your whole life there, and not have to spend any reasonable amount of time in the other boroughs. If you live in the boroughs, you will have to come into the "city" at some point - via bridge, subway, tunnel, or ferry.

Anyway, as the original heart of the city, this area of lower Manhattan has a tradition of new life being breathed in with the old, even going back to the days of the WTC and Chase. As dense as it is, there always seems to be new construction going on, these days more than ever. I'm really looking forward to what happens here. The best thing for me would be a completely new tower rising up on this part of the skyline to join the classics.

If they do decide to go with a taller tower here, I would prefer something modern with a classic element...


worldtravelimages.net

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Same. I would prefer limestone here so it will peak in the skyline with nearby prewar beauties. :cheers:

Off topic but what is the name of that vile yellow/brown building? Ugh needs to go ASAP!!!

The William Beaver tower. It's new though, so it's not going anytime soon.

Thank you. :( A glass box would have been nice.

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 55 Broad Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON MARCH 11TH 2014 AT 6:00 AM

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55 Broad Street — image by FX Fowle

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55 Broad Street -- image via Google Maps

Let's hope they move in that direction. While 750 ft isn't bad, it won't really stand out in that location.

Potential news (maybe) from that Real Deal piece...


http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/11/...ld-fetch-110m/

45 Broad to return to market — and could fetch $110M

November 10, 2014
By Adam Pincus

OMG, that beaver building is hideous. When the architect made their presentation, I want to know who it is that said ... "YES, that is the one."

Funny thing is, it's shape and materials are acceptably bad. If they would just paint the yellow black like the rest of the building, the building would look more innocuous on the skyline and less diseased.