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Eidolon
Jan 9, 2013, 10:47 AM
Toll Brothers Pays $64M for Residential Development Site (http://commercialobserver.com/2013/01/toll-brothers-pays-64m-for-residential-development-site/)
By Al Barbarino
It looks like luxury home builder Toll Brothers may have yet another New York City residential development project on the drawing board after scooping up a financially troubled and stalled development site – once dubbed the Oliver – from Alexico Group for $64 million, The Commercial Observer has learned.

The plans for the new acquisition could not immediately be confirmed, as Toll Brothers did not return calls seeking comment, though the company builds luxury homes and condo developments throughout the United States, in addition to New York City and places further upstate.

The site fell within the grasp of the then embattled developer Harry Macklowe in 2011, who along with Douglas Elliman Chairman Howard Lorber planned to build a residential tower on the site, according to an article that appeared in Crain’s in March 2011.



Toll Brothers Picks Up Midtown East Residential Site for $64M (http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/01/08/toll_brothers_picks_up_midtown_east_residential_site_for_64m.php)
Tuesday, January 8, 2013,
by Jessica Dailey
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We have been watching the 150,000-square-foot site at 953-961 First Avenue for several years, patiently waiting for the hole in the ground to actually become something. Alexico Group tried to build a 161 luxury rental building there, but the developer defaulted on loans and the site went into foreclosure. Now the site is once again on the path toward residential development, but from a different developer. The Commercial Observer reports that Toll Brothers bought the stalled site for $64 million.

New York keeps on booming!

scalziand
Jan 9, 2013, 10:22 PM
Is that 150,000 square feet the site foot print or the buildable air rights? It looks like it's a 10,000 square foot site with 15 FAR, for 150,000 square feet.

Crawford
Jan 10, 2013, 1:38 AM
Is that 150,000 square feet the site foot print or the buildable air rights? It looks like it's a 10,000 square foot site with 15 FAR, for 150,000 square feet.

Yes, but Toll Brothers also reported they're buying air rights from adjacent buildings, so we don't really know the building size.

I hope we get something relatively tall and skinny, to move the skyline northwards up the avenue. Hopefully at least 500-600 ft.

yankeesfan1000
Jan 10, 2013, 1:48 AM
Nice to hear about the potential for more air rights. This area's getting some decent activity with Two Sutton and 10 UN, now if we could only get the Con Ed/Solow sight going...

NYguy
Jan 23, 2013, 10:20 PM
http://www.rew-online.com/2013/01/23/toll-brothers-psyched-about-new-manhattan-developments/

Toll Brothers psyched about new Manhattan developments

By REW Staff
January 23, 2013


Toll Brothers said this week the company is “very excited” about plans for its two newest Manhattan buildings.

The company purchased two new development sites in Manhattan. The first is located at 953-961
First Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in the Midtown East area, and the second is located at 82 King Street, between Hudson and Varick Streets, in SoHo.

Toll Brothers plans to building luxury condominium residences and retail space at both sites.

Douglas C. Yearley, Jr., chief executive officer, said: “We are very excited to have purchased such prominent sites. This will mark our 7th and 8th Manhattan buildings and our 22nd and 23rd in the metro New York City urban area.

There are three new Toll Brothers City Living projects slated to open for sale in Manhattan this year and one new project in Brooklyn, including a 21-story, 81-unit LEED certified building in Gramercy on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 22nd Street called 160 East 22nd; a 40-story, 99-unit glass tower, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, on the corner of Park Avenue South and 28th Street called 400 Park Avenue South; an 11-unit boutique building, with family-sized floorplans ranging from 2,200 to 7,000 s/f, in Carnegie Hill; and an eco-friendly hotel and condominium community being developed in partnership with Starwood Capital Group, called Pierhouse, adjacent to Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The new First Avenue site, which already has a poured foundation, is 175,000 s/f and comes with approved plans for a residential tower.

Further downtown, on the west side, the King Street site lends itself to “an exciting lifestyle, offering easy access to the world-renowned boutiques, cafes, and restaurantsˮ that surround it.

yankeesfan1000
Jan 23, 2013, 10:52 PM
New building on King St too. Should be interesting to see what they come up with design wise at both sites.

Hypothalamus
Nov 23, 2013, 9:21 PM
New details for Toll Brothers’ 961 First Avenue (http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2013/11/961-first-avenue.html)
By: Joyce Chen November 22, 2013

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Photo: Massey Knakal

Permits have rolled in for Toll Brothers’ latest development at 953-961 First Avenue in Midtown East.

Located between 52nd and 53rd streets, the mixed-use project will have 34 stories and 136 units. The architect of record is Goldstein, Hill & West Architects, according to the plan exam application filed November 21st. The condo tower will include 11,714 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, bike storage, a children’s playroom, a lounge and a courtyard. A triplex will be on the 31st to 33rd floors.
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DoB File: PLAN EXAM - IN PROCESS 11/22/2013 (H) (http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=4&passjobnumber=121237474&passdocnumber=01)
Building Height (ft.): 370
Building Stories: 34
Dwelling Units: 136

:cheers:

Hypothalamus
Apr 13, 2014, 4:37 PM
Rendering up on site:

Photo Credit: EastMillinocket (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16114&p=445284&viewfull=1#post445284) @ WNY

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©EastMillinocket

mistermetAJ
Apr 14, 2014, 3:37 AM
I like it. It has a McGraw-Hill Building vibe to it. Hopefully the brick work is decent.

Rendering up on site:

Photo Credit: EastMillinocket (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16114&p=445284&viewfull=1#post445284) @ WNY

http://s17.postimg.org/psl17wagf/IMG_00000097.jpg
©EastMillinocket

Hypothalamus
Apr 14, 2014, 3:27 PM
More from New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 959 First Avenue (http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/04/revealed-959-first-avenue.html)
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON APRIL 14TH 2014 AT 6:30 AM

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The first renderings for 959 First Avenue have been posted on-site, giving a detailed look at Toll Brothers City Living’s latest project to begin construction in Manhattan; Goldstein Hill & West is the architectural firm of record, per filings with the Department of Buildings.

Permits indicate the mixed-use structure will have 197,127 square feet in total, and 9,569 square feet will be dedicated to ground floor retail. The remainder of the project will be divided between 114 residences, and the 30-story building’s pinnacle will stand 333 feet above the street.

[...]

Per on-site signage, completion of 959 First Avenue is expected in the fall of 2016.

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Foundation work

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959 First Avenue, site overview


Title update:
NEW YORK | 953-961 First Ave | 333 FT | 30 FLOORS

chris08876
Apr 14, 2014, 3:29 PM
^^^^

Delete. I think I posted this info the same minute you did haha.

sparkling
Jan 12, 2015, 10:31 PM
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Joyce Chen
JANUARY 12, 2015
Midtown East’s The Sutton by Toll Brothers City Living has pushed out a new teaser site. http://www.thesuttonnyc.com/?cmpid=SGo65

Located at 959 First Avenue off East 53rd Street, the building will offer studio to four-bedroom condominiums. Sales are scheduled to start in early 2015. The 113 “modern vintage” residences will be priced from approximately $850,000 to more than $6 million, according to the official site.

The condo offering plan was accepted in December 2014, with a current total price of $271.6 million.

Curbed gives a little history on the site: Back in 2010, the Alexico Group proposed a 161-unit luxury rental project, with plans for the first rooftop movie screening facility in the city. The developer ran into money troubles, the parcel went into foreclosure and Toll Brothers picked up the land for $64 million in 2013.

Permits were filed November 2013 for a new 30-story building with 187,558 square feet of residential space and 9,569 square feet of retail. The architect of record is Goldstein, Hill & West. Amenities will include a courtyard, lounge, bike storage and children’s playroom, according to the Schedule A filing.

The building was about halfway to its final 333-foot height in late October, according to NY YIMBY.

The development is scheduled for completion in 2016.

http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/01/959-first-avenue-sutton.html

sbarn
Jan 13, 2015, 1:07 AM
This is nearly topped out.

http://s15.postimg.org/5hts0bud7/IMG_00000403.jpg
From WNY (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16114&page=3)

summersm343
Jan 14, 2015, 1:35 AM
Moved. Guess we missed this one. Almost topped out! Whoops!

Design-mind
Jan 14, 2015, 2:16 AM
I hope the windows turn out as good as the Abington House on the Highline.

pico44
Jan 15, 2015, 12:11 AM
Respects the streetwall. No vast concrete exposures. Cool gridded windows. Am I dreaming or did an architect actually refrain from taking a giant steaming dump on the far east fifties.

Antares41
Jan 15, 2015, 7:57 PM
Agreed, nicely integrated into the surrounding environment. Makes a statement while being respectful of the neighborhood; hopefully other will follow this excellent design.:tup:

sparkling
Feb 2, 2015, 6:45 PM
First Look At Toll Brothers' Soon-to-Launch East Side Tower (http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/02/first_look_at_toll_brothers_soontolaunch_east_side_tower.php#more)

Monday, February 2, 2015
Jessica Dailey
The Midtown East condo tower at 959 First Avenue near East 53rd Street has flown under the radar since developer Toll Brothers picked up the formerly stalled site in January 2013, but it's now on the verge of launching sales.

The design team from Incorporated Architecture & Design shared dozens of new renderings of the 30-story tower, showing the condo interiors and amenity spaces, all of which look incredibly typical for a new condo development. The Sutton, as the tower is now known, will hold 114 units, ranging from one- to four-bedrooms, with prices ranging from $850,000 to more than $6 million.

Permits filed with the Department of Buildings indicate that the top three levels will hold a triplex and duplex penthouse.

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Private terraces for the penthouses
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chris08876
Mar 8, 2015, 9:45 PM
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Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27672048@N00/16747288561/

PeterQM
Apr 16, 2015, 5:59 PM
http://www.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Sutton-959-First-Avenue-Turtle-Bay-Toll-Brothers-Manhattan-Condo-18.jpg

Toll Brothers’ latest condo development The Sutton has reached its 30-story apex and is currently applying a variety of skins to its frame that its designers hope will capture a “modern vintage” aesthetic.

To read more (http://www.6sqft.com/the-sutton-toll-brothers-modern-vintage-condo-tops-out-and-gets-motley-skin/)

sparkling
Apr 24, 2015, 11:33 AM
The Sutton Tries to Fit Into Midtown East (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/realestate/a-newcomer-tries-to-fit-in.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)

AILEEN JACOBSON
APRIL 24, 2015
The Sutton, a 30-story condominium rising at 959 First Avenue, already towers over the traditional walk-ups nearby, but it will also borrow from the historic flavor of the neighborhood for its design.

The building will be clad mostly in bricks rather than in glass and steel, “to be reflective of a lot of the buildings that were erected a century ago,” said David Von Spreckelsen, the president of the New York City division of Toll Brothers City Living, the owner of the Sutton, which recently started selling its 113 apartments.

In addition, many architectural details have been inspired by the surrounding area, said Adam Rolston, managing and creative director of Incorporated Architecture and Design, which designed the building’s interior and facade.

“Our biggest influences were the immediate urban fabric,” Mr. Rolston said. Those influences included the neighborhood’s “grand luxury buildings like 1 Sutton, for scale and proportion” and for details like glazed windows that offer a view of a private garden from the lobby, he said, referring to 1 Sutton Place South, a 1927 building at the corner of East 57th Street.

The site of the Sutton, which includes the addresses 953-961 First Avenue, had been a vacant lot for several years. The site originally had a row of five-story buildings with commercial space on the ground floor and apartments above — similar to many buildings that still stand on both sides of the block. Metropolitan Café, a popular hangout with a garden in back, occupied 959 First Avenue from 1982 through most of 2006. “It was casual and fun,” said Chris Karalekas, who with his brother Nikos owns Mme. Eleanor’s, a dry-cleaning store at 952 First Avenue, across from the Sutton. “They served salad and burgers and pasta.”

By 2007, however, the space had become a hole in the ground. That’s when the Alexico Group, which had bought it, broke ground for a proposed rental building, Mr. Von Spreckelsen said. But the recession intervened and, he said, “They chose not to go ahead.” At the end of 2012, he said, Toll Brothers purchased the site for $64 million in cash. His company kept the foundation that the Alexico Group had built and hired Goldstein Hill & West Architects to design its building, which provides panoramic views that include the East River.

The Sutton, where apartments are priced from $950,000 for a studio to $11.75 million for a four-bedroom triplex penthouse with its own pool, is between 52nd and 53rd Streets. (One-bedrooms start at around $1.1 million, two-bedrooms at $2.1 million and three-bedrooms at $3.3 million.)

The building, scheduled for occupancy late next year, will have amenities intended to accommodate the area’s changing demographics, which lately have been skewing younger, according to Mr. Rolston and Mr. Von Spreckelsen, including a fitness center and a children’s playroom, and open kitchens in the apartments.

Though many residents welcome the new addition, several shopkeepers and residents said that some neighbors have reservations.

“I’m all for it, but some people don’t like the new high-rises,” said Paul Enea, who with his brother Frank owns Pisacane Midtown Seafood at 940 First Avenue. “They want old-fashioned and quaint.”

Sutton Place, a pricier neighborhood east of First Avenue, contains many historic buildings, but the area to the west (also called Midtown East) has seen more new construction, including two condominiums still being completed, at 301 East 50th Street and at 305 East 51st Street, the site of a deadly construction crane disaster in 2008.

Mr. Rolston said that for his inspiration, he reached back as far as 1875, when Effingham B. Sutton began building brownstones along the East River, where the waterfront had been populated with button and cigar factories and breweries. Custom-made bath and kitchen fixtures echo that industrial past, he said.

The three penthouses — a simplex, a duplex and a triplex — that top the building use black glass and metal in homage to a modernist penthouse on Beekman Place that he admires. But all the indoor surfaces are “durable, practical, cleanable,” and suitable for today’s families, Mr. Rolston said.

He said he didn’t expect future residents to recognize the historic roots: “People may not know it, but they feel it.”

chris08876
May 9, 2015, 6:55 PM
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Credit: Tectonic (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16114&page=4&p=456100&viewfull=1#post456100)

Downburst
May 10, 2015, 5:26 AM
Wow! Are they hand-laying brick here? You don't see that too much anymore...

mousquet
May 10, 2015, 11:24 AM
^ I don't think so. It appears to be an awesome treatment applied to concrete. You'll like it. Experienced in Paris already. ;)

chris08876
May 10, 2015, 12:23 PM
Wow! Are they hand-laying brick here? You don't see that too much anymore...

Some shots of the treatment. All credit to tectonic from wired new york.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7744/17435764452_0eceecd7ec_b.jpg

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8694/17411724806_07f7bfce28_b.jpg

^ I don't think so. It appears to be an awesome treatment applied to concrete. You'll like it. Experienced in Paris already. ;)

Yeah I believe so. Its takes too much time to hand place them. Speed is key with projects nowadays. An extra couple of days of delays could mean millions lost.

mousquet
May 10, 2015, 12:39 PM
Lol ok, I'll still have a fair excuse. Those bricks are super thin and weren't noticeable on the 1st shot.
Then I was just thinking of something like this.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6533827909_4fc7d03b14_o.jpg

That brown façade to the left. But it's actually not the very same effect, granted.

Thx for the pictures up close anyway, it's interesting.

mousquet
May 10, 2015, 12:43 PM
Yeah I believe so. Its takes too much time to hand place them. Speed is key with projects nowadays. An extra couple of days of delays could mean millions lost.
Again, I was wrong, however. It's not the treatment I was thinking of. But they don't (or rarely) lay bricks by following older methods. I guess it's too much of a waste of time.

Whatever, the effect to this building is very nice.

chris08876
May 11, 2015, 9:55 PM
Facts

113 units
29 stories
Built in 2016
District Community District 106
City Council District 4
Police Precinct 17
Floorplans 35

Sales Listings 34 active sales ($1,906 per ft² avg, $2,560,578 avg price)

Architect: Goldstein Hill & West
Developer: Toll Brothers City Living
Interiors: Incorporated NY
Sales and marketing: Toll Brothers City Living
Sales office tel: 212.388.9194
Sales start: April 2015
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http://streeteasy.com/building/the-sutton-959-1-avenue-new_york

chris08876
May 29, 2015, 11:31 PM
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Credit: Tectonic (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16114&page=4&p=456533&viewfull=1#post456533)

chris08876
Jul 1, 2015, 10:02 PM
This tower is so damn nice. :worship:

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5567d7ade4b07d3d31ab5717/t/5593205ae4b035267ffee9d4/1435705435426/?format=750w

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Credit: Tectonic (http://tectonicphoto.com/blog/2015/6/30/the-sutton)

Hypothalamus
Aug 12, 2015, 3:27 PM
By Tectonic

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10342485@N05/19865320793/in/photostream/

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patriotizzy
Aug 12, 2015, 4:40 PM
That looks so authentic, it's amazing. Wish we saw more of this everywhere else.

chris08876
Mar 30, 2016, 3:55 AM
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The Sutton, 959 First Avenue


This 30-story, mid-block apartment building at 959 First Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets was scheduled for completion in 2016 by Toll Brothers City Living.

It is known as The Sutton and was designed by Goldstein, Hill & West.
It has 90 condominium apartments.Something of “a stranger in paradise,” this large apartment tower tries to minimize and mask its size with assorted light red façade subdivisions on top of a very strong and dark base that is mirrored somewhat at its top: you’d almost think it was packin’ heat and looking for a fight, but it’s actually a post-post-modern habitat that is pretty good at twirling its visual weapons.

SIZE STARTING FROM # AVAIL
1 BED$1,705,9903
2 BEDS$2,139,9905
3 BEDS$3,659,9904
6+ BEDS$19,500,0001

Last updated Mar 29, 2016

$2,032 AVG. PRICE / FT2

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http://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/midtown-east/the-sutton-959-first-avenue/57411

chris08876
Mar 30, 2016, 4:17 AM
This project is essentially complete btw.