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Nordstrom Buys Site for Manhattan’s Tallest Residential Skyscraper
Nordstrom will open its first New York department store in the bottom seven floors of a future Midtown skyscraper.





03 September 2013
Angela Fedele

The Seattle-based retailer has spent US$102.5 million to purchase a plot of land that could become home to a 1,550-foot skyscraper, a height that would rank it
among Manhattan’s tallest skyscrapers. The site, located at 225 West 57th Street just south of Central Park, has been planned by real estate mogul Gary Barnett’s
Extell Development company with the design commissioned by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architects.

Nordstorm’s new flagship store will consist of approximately 175,000 square feet of retail space with the ability to span up to 285,000 square feet over seven
dedicated floors of the 88-storey skyscraper. The mixed use tower will also include a hotel from floors eight to 12 with the remainder of the floors dedicated
to luxury condominiums and mechanical equipment.

If it weren’t for the city’s One World Trade’s Centre tower’s spire which takes the building’s height to 1,776 feet, the Nordstrom skyscraper would the tallest in
Manhattan. New York’s Buildings Department has not yet approved plans for the new building.

If the skyscraper gets the green light, it will overtake the 1,398-foot 432 Park Avenue building by architect Raphael Vinoly, currently under construction,
as well as Extell’s neighbouring project, One 57, a 1004-foot residential skyscraper.

( September 2, 2013 )