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RobertWalpole · #1 Posted **Mar 23, 2011, 2:08 AM**

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/catego...dtown_west.php

Unarrested Development

Midtown's Library-Hotel Plan Becomes Library-Condo-Hotel Plan
Three years ago the NYPL's aging five-story Donnell Library on West 53rd Street across from MoMA was shuttered as part of a unique arrangement. Orient-Express Hotels agreed to purchase the building for $59 million and build a new 11-story luxury hotel on the site, with a new space for a smaller library included in the deal. That plan fell victim to the credit crunch, but now it's back with some new details, and new developers: Tribeca Associates (of Smyth Hotel and Artisan Lofts fame), and a little company called Starwood Hotels. Crain's reports the duo are swooping in on the still-standing Donnell branch, and they have the NYPL's blessing. The plan is to build a $400 million, 260,000-square-foot building with hotel rooms and condo units. The deal could still fall apart, so don't get too excited about a reopened library just yet, people who are too cheap to buy books.

tommaso · #2 Posted **Jun 12, 2011, 8:40 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobertWalpole

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/catego...dtown_west.php

Unarrested Development

Midtown's Library-Hotel Plan Becomes Library-Condo-Hotel Plan
Three years ago the NYPL's aging five-story Donnell Library on West 53rd Street across from MoMA was shuttered as part of a unique arrangement. Orient-Express Hotels agreed to purchase the building for $59 million and build a new 11-story luxury hotel on the site, with a new space for a smaller library included in the deal. That plan fell victim to the credit crunch, but now it's back with some new details, and new developers: Tribeca Associates (of Smyth Hotel and Artisan Lofts fame), and a little company called Starwood Hotels. Crain's reports the duo are swooping in on the still-standing Donnell branch, and they have the NYPL's blessing. The plan is to build a $400 million, 260,000-square-foot building with hotel rooms and condo units. The deal could still fall apart, so don't get too excited about a reopened library just yet, people who are too cheap to buy books.

Wow! I want to know what that $400 million Starwood development is all about!

RobertWalpole · #3 Posted **Jul 27, 2011, 6:15 PM**

NY esta en fuego!!!

http://ny.curbed.com/

Rendering Reveal
MoMA Block Gets Another Tower with Hotel-Condo-Library Greenlit

The swooping has been swooped, and Tribeca Associates with Starwood Capital have closed on the former Donnell Library in Midtown for $67.4 million. Tribeca Associates has the first, vague rendering of what a $400 million, mixed-use development with boutique hotel, condo component, and novelty library will look like.

Real Estate Weekly tallies a couple of Starwood's aggressive recent buys; in 2011, it closed on 1414 Sixth Avenue for $72 million and bought one third of Brazilian real estate investment firm Brazil MRV Log for $159 million.
· Partnership closes on Donnell Library site,

RobertWalpole · #4 Posted **Jul 27, 2011, 7:39 PM**

Tribeca Associates' website info re: this project.

http://tribecallc.com/53rdstreet.html

SkyscrapersOfNewYork · #5 Posted **Jul 27, 2011, 9:19 PM**

nice sleek clean design! i like it!

babybackribs2314 · #6 Posted **Jul 27, 2011, 9:23 PM**

Too bad no-one is ever going to see this building... filler, blah.

Alliance · #7 Posted **Jul 27, 2011, 10:43 PM**

^^^ "Filler" is what makes the fabric of this city.

patriotizzy · #8 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 1:31 AM**

Me likes design! NYC is in yet another boom.

RobertWalpole · #9 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 1:40 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobertWalpole

NY esta en fuego!!!

http://ny.curbed.com/

Rendering Reveal
MoMA Block Gets Another Tower with Hotel-Condo-Library Greenlit

[IMG]http://ny.curbed.com/uploads/Tribeca...-rendering.jpg[/ovelty library will look like.
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It looks like there are holes in this building in the middle of the facade.

NYguy · #10 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 3:05 AM**

Good, something else to photograph while I'm watching construction of the Tower Verre....

RobertWalpole · #11 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 3:14 AM**

With all of the construction poised to start in NYC, I hope that you have a vast memory card in your camera!

NYguy · #12 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 3:25 AM**

^ Yeah, I remember thinking we had some downtime during the financial meltdown, as projects were put on hold. But we've stayed busy enough. By this time next year, we could be approaching pre-crisis levels with ongoing work, not to mention new proposals that will come out between now and then.

Here's another look at that rendering.

RobertWalpole · #13 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 3:40 AM**

Does anyone see what appears to be holes in the facade, which are like the big one in the building in Miami but on a smaller scale here.

This is a cool tower, though I would have preferred a stone facade in this area.

Dylan Leblanc · #14 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 7:30 PM**

Aren't those just balconies?

RobertWalpole · #15 Posted **Jul 28, 2011, 7:39 PM**

They don't appear to be.

RobertWalpole · #16 Posted **Aug 3, 2011, 3:48 PM**

http://therealdeal.com/newyork/artic...-new-york-city

babybackribs2314 · #17 Posted **Nov 19, 2011, 4:35 PM**

needs to be updated

demo is progressing rapidly, permits filed for a 46 story/610' tower

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...ssdocnumber=01

it will still be lost in the sea of nearby buildings, but impressive that there is yet another 500'+ building going up in midtown...

scalziand · #18 Posted **Nov 19, 2011, 5:34 PM**

The permit says that it's a through block site, is that little tower behind the library being demo'd too?

RobertWalpole · #19 Posted **Nov 19, 2011, 6:36 PM**

It seems that we'll get a new design.

Crawford · #20 Posted **Nov 19, 2011, 7:17 PM**

NYC DOB height only includes to top of highest floor, so (looking at other buildings with same DOB height) we're probably talking a 650 foot building or so (assuming flat top).

This is very close to Tower Verre, as well as another tall development site on Madison. This part of Midtown already has a very impressive vertical profile, though it will be fun to see the additions.