Posted Apr 20, 2013, 7:40 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/re...anted=all&_r=0
By C. J. HUGHES
April 19, 2013
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Since the fall, Brookfield Office Properties has been building at 425 West 31st Street, the first leg of Manhattan West, a 5.4-million-square-foot mixed-use project on a two-block site on Ninth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets.
In addition to office space, Manhattan West will have a 57-story tower with 900 rental units, though Brookfield has configured the building with two elevator banks in case it decides to spin some of those units off as condos, said Philip Wharton, the company’s senior vice president for development.
Brookfield is also including a 1.5-acre plaza as part of its Manhattan West property. Built atop train tracks and Dyer Avenue, it will essentially function as a reconstituted leg of West 32nd Street, for pedestrians only. The T-shaped space will also align with New York’s main post office, for which a conversion to a train terminal called Moynihan Station has long been planned. “We’re kind of the front door of the project,” Mr. Wharton said.
He described future shops as lining the plaza and also being squeezed into the truck bays that stud the base of the adjacent 450 West 33rd Street, a slope-walled building owned by Brookfield.
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