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

[PeterQM]

Real Estate Highlights: Well, That’s Rather Abysmal…
February 21, 2017

Just when you thought the area around the Port Authority Bus Terminal couldn’t get any worse, Gene Kaufman Architect surprises us with a new extruded pile of hotel lodgings. The development site at 306-308 West 40th Street, at the ass of the bus terminal, is slated to be the twelfth budget hotel to come to the beleaguered block. Never-approved permits were filed back in 2015 calling for a 21-story, 60-key hotel, but per a rendering posted on the storefront on one of the doomed building, it seems that plans have been expanded to a roughly 35-floor building. Directly next door at 310 West 40th Street, a 42-story, 287-room hotel is nearing completion.

MORE REAL ESTATE highlights in the post here.

[PeterQM]

Real Estate Highlights: First Look at New Residential Building Coming to Murray Hill/Kips Bay
February 23, 2017

Four old-school walk-ups are hitting the chopping block on East 33rd Street to make way for a new residential building (surprise!). Excel Development Group (not to be confused with Extell) filed permits to demolish three of the buildings last fall and now we’ve uncovered an image from GF55 Architects showing a cantilevering mélange proposed for the site. Per GF55’s website, the mixed-use building is composed of 3 massing components sitting next to and atop each other and it will be clad in pre-cast stone, glass and metal.

MORE REAL ESTATE highlights in the post here.

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 11-39 49th Avenue




Credit: Waymond_Womano

[PeterQM]

Albo Liberis Pens Aggressive-Looking Hotel for Bushwick
February 23, 2017

As a sequel to their William Vale Hotel and the Williamsburg Hotel, the designers at Albo Liberis have drafted up plans for a new hotel at 27 Stewart Street in Bushwick. Permits were filed back in May 2015 and remain unapproved. The site is located at the corner of Stewart and Flushing avenues and a pre-existing scrap metal recycling business that has since been cleared away.

Newly published renderings on Albo Liberis’ website align with permits and show a 9-floor building with broad commercial floorplates. There will be 140 hotel rooms from floors 3-9 and a community facility on the second floor. The design is not as playful as Albo Liberis’ other works but perhaps their counting on the area’s busy graffiti artists to lighten its look.

MORE REAL ESTATE HIGHLIGHTS in the post here.

[PeterQM]

Summer Leasing Launch for 12-Story 'Caesura' in the Brooklyn Cultural District
February 23, 2017

A new 12-story, mixed-use rental building at the intersection of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place in Downtown Brooklyn is nearing completion, and a summer 2017 leasing launch has been announced. Previously known as 15 Lafayette Avenue and BAM North Site II, the building is dubbed Caesura and will use the address 280 Ashland Place. The property is within the Brooklyn Cultural District which is anchored by the world-famous Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) less than one block away. Recent photos of the site show the building is close to topping out and will soon be ready to welcome residents into the more than 120 apartments, forty percent of which are reserved as affordable units.

MORE PICTURES & INFO in the post here.

[chris08876]

Project: 312-322 Canal

There has been talk for a while about a new building at 312-322 Canal, currently the site of a wide, two-story retail building. The conventional wisdom, as espoused by a member of the Community Board 1 Landmarks Committee back in November, was that the project was on hold till the real estate market heated back up.

Perhaps not. City Realty has details on the current plan, which is for a nine-story building, most likely rental apartments, with a façade of red brick. The developer is presumably still Trans World Equities.

The stretch of stores on 312-322 Canal Street is finally being revisited by Paul A. Castrucci Architect after the team’s first proposal was denied by the Landmark Preservation Commission in 2011. Back then, the plan was to keep the retail but the design was deemed too bland for the lively area. This time around, their design is a for a residential, multi-family project that is slated to become Passive House–certified, [meaning it] must be primarily heated by passive solar gain and internal gains from people or electrical equipment, which saves up to 90% of space heating costs.

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http://tribecacitizen.com/2017/02/27...-canal-street/

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 11 Beach


Credit: FC

[PeterQM]

Carter Reviews 50 West Street, Helmut Jahn's "Shimmering Sentinel"
March 1, 2017

Zoning drawings have been approved for a new 200,000-square-foot office building planned for 540 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The project replaces a robustly rusticated 125-year-old building that opened with a Woolworth’s store. The new tower is being developed by Jenel Management Corporation and designed by Marvel Architects.

MORE REAL ESTATE HIGHLIGHTS in the post here.

[PeterQM]

Real Estate Highlights: Pair of 150-Year-Old Greenwich Village Buildings to Bite the Dust
March 1, 2017

While we love new developments, we can't reconcile the desecration of the city's charm. Yesterday demolition applications were filed to raze a pair of charming Italianate-style buildings at 827-831 Broadway in Greenwich Village. Motivated by the hot Midtown South commercial market, the buildings will be replaced by a 14-story boutique office building. The project is being developed by Quality Capital and Caerus Group , and designed by C3D Architecture. Just last week, the Real Deal reported that Normandy Real Estate Partners and Ares Management are considering developing a boutique office building at 799 Broadway, just two blocks south of 831 Broadway

MORE REAL ESTATE HIGHLIGHTS in the post here.

[Submariner]

Wait, so garbage that pollutes CPS gets landmark protection, but these two structures dont?

I'm all for new development, and oh to many structures need to be sent to the fires of Hell, but these buildings are lovely! How do they not have protected status?

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Submariner

Wait, so garbage that pollutes CPS gets landmark protection, but these two structures dont?

I'm all for new development, and oh to many structures need to be sent to the fires of Hell, but these buildings are lovely! How do they not have protected status?

Probably because they're obviously bastardized buildings, with totally unoriginal facades.

The individually landmarked buildings on CPS tend to be original snapshots of certain time periods. Granted, these time periods might not be to your liking, but a 1940's apartment house with original details will get landmarked long before some bastardized 19th century building.

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 29-12 40th Avenue

Note: In LIC


Credit: Waymond_Womano

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 37-14 36th Street

Note: In LIC


Credit: Waymond_Womano

[PeterQM]

Real Estate Highlights: "Japan Land" Coming to the West Side?
March 2, 2017

Nobutaka Ashihara Architects (NAA) debuted a new website. One interesting and mysterious project shown is a glassy 12-story building they’re calling 'Japan Land.' The underzoned site is catty-corner to Penn Station at West 31st Street and Eighth Avenue. Pre-recession, the parking-lot site was set to get a 15-story, 88-unit residential by Savanna Partners. Savanna sold the site in 2014 for $65M, more than double what they paid in 2007. City records list the buyer as Kedem Realty LLC.
We love how the renderings show the fully-built Hudson Yards and Manhattan West development in the background —with a sudden blossoming of cherry trees all around Penn St./MSG. But one can only dream...

More REAL ESTATE HIGHLIGHTS in the post here.

[PeterQM]

Take In the Incredible Views at 1 QPS Tower; LIC's Newly-Opened Rental Leasing From $1,989/Mo.
March 2, 2017

Earlier this month, we reported that leasing has begun on Long Island City’s tallest finished apartment building, 1 QPS Tower. Topping off at more than 500 feet and just a few short blocks from the East River waterfront, the building offers renters incredible views of the Manhattan skyline at a fraction of the prices available across the river. Developed by Property Markets Group, the 44-story glass-enclosed rental building holds 391 apartments ranging from studios to two-bedrooms priced from $1,989/month. The building features an array of amenities that include onsite parking, a double-height fitness center, and an outdoor rooftop pool that is the highest we know of in the city.

More DETAILS in the post here.

[chris08876]

^^^^

Peter that is a skyscraper. (1 QPS over in LIC) That would not go in the mid rise/low rise compilation.

Please try to keep it at 11 floors or under when posting in the mid/low rise compilation.

Other than that, appreciate the contributions but for sake or organization, anything 12 floors and up, stick in here:


NEW YORK CITY | Highrise Compilation and Directory 2017 Version

[PeterQM]

Pair of New Residential Developments Coming to Tribeca
March 3, 2017

Yesterday, two new condo developments were revealed in Tribeca. First up, we have 14 White Street. Local newspaper Tribeca Citizen, provided the first look at a pint-sized condo building planned for the corner of Sixth Avenue and White Street. By way of an advisory meeting with the Landmarks Committee of Community Board 1, the paper revealed that developer/ architect NAVA, working with DXA studio, is seeking to build a 7-story, 10-unit building at the site. The paper says, the building will meet Passive House standards and will be clad in a bronze rainscreen, etched with acid, to create a mesh-like pattern.

More DETAILS & RENDERINGS in the post here.

[PeterQM]

Pair of New Residential Developments Coming to Tribeca
March 6, 2017

It’s been more than a decade since redevelopment plans surfaced for a one-story strip of stores at the corner of Fourth Avenue and East 10th Street, near Astor Place. The narrow East Village lot has been vacant since 2007 and in that time, nearly a half-dozen plans have come and gone. Now, with groundwork underway, it seems the site’s time has finally come. Last year, the local architecture-development firm, NAVA received the green light to build a 10-story, 12-unit residential building at the 4,200-square-foot site.

More DETAILS in the post here.

[PeterQM]

First Look at Chetrit's 826-unit 101 Lincoln Avenue in the South Bronx
March 7, 2017

Though it seems the city may be up to its neck in new rental inventory now, two or three years down the line may be a different story. The Chetrit Group and Somerset Partners are counting on the return of a strong market that will continue to drive locals to a once forlorn section of the South Bronx. Last year, the team began construction on a sweeping, two-parcel master plan that will eventually comprise of 6 residential towers and a waterfront park

More DETAILS in the post here.

[PeterQM]

Presenting The Decker: Sales Launch on New Long Island City Condos Priced from $695K
March 6, 2017

LIC's newest boutique condominium, The Decker at 21-10 44th Drive, has just launched sales for four of its 16 units. A rendering for the mixed-use 8-story, 16-unit project by Sheepshead Bay-based Zproekt surfaced last year and has since undergone a color change. The new rendering, courtesy of Modern Spaces, now depicts a red-brick exterior with prominent cornices. Apparently, the project was inspired by Long Island City's maritime history and more specifically, the Newtown Creek Towing Company's tugboat, the W.O. Decker. Although the Court Square neighborhood is quickly becoming a hot spot for residential development, the blocks surrounding this latest condominium remain relatively untouched - for now.

More DETAILS & RENDERINGS in the post here.