NEW YORK | 610 W. 57th St. | 482 FT | 45 FLOORS

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Aerial shot of TF Cornerstone’s 606 West 57th Street


Joyce Chen
JANUARY 26, 2015

Demolition is well under way at TF Cornerstone’s 606 West 57th Street.

The 42-story building in the far West Side will have 1,028 rental apartments, with about 205 of those units reserved for residents earning 60 percent of the neighborhood’s median income, according to the New York Observer. There will also be approximately 38,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, parking for 400 cars and a public pre-kindergarten school.

Demolition of the existing buildings at the site, which include a garage structure and former Lexus dealership, commenced around the beginning of January.

The developer secured a $384 million construction loan for the $550 million project in November, the Observer reported.

The City Council’s Land Use Committee approved the rental project in April 2014 after TF Cornerstone agreed to include a public pre-kindergarten in the building, create a smaller parking garage and use union workers, DNAinfo reported. In addition to the 205 units set aside for people earning 60 percent of Area Median Income, Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal made a deal with TF Cornerstone to add another 10,000 square feet of moderate income housing. These units — about 15 apartments in total — would be reserved for middle-income families earning about $150,000 a year, Capital New York reported.

The anticipated completion date is Spring 2017.

Compare to the construction photo from January 3rd




Some more from a few days ago

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New Look: TF Cornerstone’s 606 West 57th Street



NIKOLAI FEDAK
MARCH 31ST 2015

YIMBY got the first look at TF Cornerstone’s new building coming to 606 West 57th Street back in 2013, and now we have actual renderings of the project, which will become the second-largest residential building in Manhattan. Arquitectonica is designing the multi-faceted structure, which will take up much of the block on the southern side of 57th Street, west of 11th Avenue, opposite 625 West 57th Street.

The project will total 1.2 million square feet, split between several components. The largest will be the residential portion, measuring 952,938 square feet, which will be divided amongst 1,028 apartments. The almost-complete 605 West 42nd Street will rank ahead of 606 West 57th Street in terms of overall unit count, but TF Cornerstone’s project will still be very substantial.

Besides the apartments, the building will have 40,000 square feet of retail space, and a hotel component that was tentatively included in the old plans appears to have been cut from the project.

The block’s former occupants are now completely demolished, with excavation work for the project hopefully beginning soon. The building’s DOB filings were partially approved only yesterday.

In terms of design, this stretch of 57th Street will soon feature two of the largest contemporary residential buildings in New York City. 606 West 57th Street goes in the opposite direction of 625 West 57th Street, featuring several blocks stacked on top of one another. Still, the tower will be relatively short when compared against the supertalls that will soon loom to the east, and it will stand 42 floors and 440 feet to its roof.
Completion of 606 West 57th Street is expected in 2017.

[Zapatan]

Wow nice!

Hope it's not an April fools joke

[ILNY]

^Its not a joke. Demolition has finished.





The corner building is at the bottom left of the render above.







Big lot.

[chris08876]

Construction Ramps Up on Far West Side Mega-Rental at the Foot of Bjarke’s Ski Slope

Covering nearly an entire city block, the 63,000-square-foot site is owned by John Appleby’s Alabama-based Four Plus Corp. TFC entered a 99-year ground lease for the site in May 2012, shortly after AvalonBay Communities‘ plans to construct a 44-story, 700-unit rental tower were shelved due to the economic downturn. TFC’s mega-tower will replace a handful of low-slung buildings once home to garages and a car dealership. The stretch of Eleventh Avenue, which one leg of the project faces, has come to be known as Autobahn Alley, due to the many dealership showrooms occupying the stretch.

Despite enveloping most of the block, TFC was unable to secure any of the site’s corners: a two-block-long city sanitation garage is located along the western, Hudson River-facing block front; a five-story building owned by Bilgeo Realty holds the northeast corner; and two commercial buildings once the headquarters of John Catsimatidis’ Gristedes supermarket chain are situated along the southeast corner. It was announced last year that the two buildings will be replaced by a new 40-story Álvaro Siza-designed condominium at 823 Eleventh Avenue.

To allow for residential uses at the site, the project successfully navigated through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Process, and was ratified early last year by the City Council. The development will contain 1,028 rental units, 206 of which will be set aside for residents earning 60 percent of the area’s median income. In November, the Observer reported that the project will receive $365 million in financing through the state’s 80/20 housing program. To secure city and community approvals, TF Cornerstone agreed to use union workers in the project’s construction, provide a public pre-kindergarten school, and build a smaller-than-originally-proposed parking garage for 400 vehicles. The goody bag of concessions helped quell a vocal group of local residents called Citizens for Responsible Organized West Side Development With Environmental Deference (CROWDED).

For the retail-starved district, the property will house 38,000 square feet of ground-level retail that may be ideal for another auto retailer. Mercedes House, a few blocks to the south, provides 850 rental units above a sleek Mercedes-Benz showroom. Perhaps with the signing of another luxury brand auto-tenant here, TFC’s tower may be dubbed the “Lexus Lofts” or the “Tesla Terraces.”

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http://www.6sqft.com/construction-ra...kes-ski-slope/

[aquablue]

In my opinion, riverfront is too valuable to be wasted on such drek like this. A plan was needed to save the riverfront from becoming a hodge-podge of varying and dubious design quality. I guess it didn't happen.

[timpdx]

NY's version of Trinity Place in SF

[Lecom]

A very quick clip

• Video Link

[ILNY]

[Submariner]

http://www.6sqft.com/wp-content/uplo...erstone-12.jpg

Whats the deal with the large lot to the left of the pyramid.

[ILNY]

Originally Posted by Submariner

http://www.6sqft.com/wp-content/uplo...erstone-12.jpg

Whats the deal with the large lot to the left of the pyramid.

See this thread:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...=160278&page=8

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by ILNY

See this thread:
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...=160278&page=8

Thank you.

[chris08876]

Pics by me

[chris08876]

Credit: NYY and Tectonic

As for 606 West 57th Street, the Arquitectonica-designed building will be huge and one can only hope more neighborhood amenities will sprout up to support it. The latest filings show a 998,526-square-foot building rising to 42 stories at 440-feet-tall. Of that square footage, 961,063 will be devoted to 1,028 residential units. That means an average unit size of about 935 square feet.

Residential units will start with seven units on the mezzanine level, followed by 47 on the second floor, 49 on the third floor, 52 each on the fourth through sixth floors, 34 on the seventh floor, 38 each on the eighth through 17th floors, 20 on the 18th floor, 19 each on the 19th through 28th floors, four on the 29th floor, 10 each on the 30th and 31st floors, and eleven each on the 32nd through 42nd floors.

There will be parking for 400 cars and storage for 499 bicycles. Also in the building will be a dog grooming room, basketball court, fitness rooms, a “club room,” children’s activity room, locker rooms, a yoga room, a screening room, and terraces on the mezzanine, second, and 29th floors.

There will also be 37,463 square feet of commercial space, for retail on the ground floor.

[ILNY]

Foundation work has started.

[artspook]

luckily they didn't get the four corners . .
this new heap of mundane glitz . .
needs a bit of integration into the old grit of the hood . .
and the block might be enhanced by the juxtaposition.

[ILNY]

[ATLksuGUY]

I thinks its fair to say this is uc??

[chris08876]

Yeah this should be moved. Another tower u/c, another day. A steady crop of towers will take their turn at the dance that is the boom. Its interesting because we've seen tons of cranes dot the skyline, yet there are many more that are arriving. Its kinda hard sometimes to get a feel for the boom because often, the cranes are not as visible, especially in Manhattan, but they are there. Tons of sites in demo or in foundation work.

[ILNY]