NEW YORK | Trump Soho - 246 Spring St | 454 FT / 138 M | 42 FLOORS

[NYC4Life]

Trump International Hotel and Tower SoHo

BROKE GROUND: 2006

Height: 454 Feet / 138 Meters
Floors: 46
Address: 246 Spring Street, New York, New York
Architect: Handel Architects, Rockwell Group
Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Developer: Trump Organization









CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS:










http://www.trumpsoho.com/

[NYC4Life]

As of October 5, 2008

By: econ_tim - Wired New York

[Shantytown Architect]

Wow. It makes me sad to see a Trump monstrosity in SoHo.

[NYC4Life]

This tower was fiercely opposed in the area, but Trump is just Trump.

[R@ptor]

Originally Posted by NYC4Life

This tower was fiercely opposed in the area, but Trump is just Trump.

And you have to give him credit for that.

I still hope that we will see a NY skyline in the future that covers the entire southern half of Manhattan from the Battery Park to the Central Park. And someone needs to make the first step.

[antinimby]

Originally Posted by Shantytown Architect

Wow. It makes me sad to see a Trump monstrosity in SoHo.

It's not SoHo eventhough the advertising claims that it is. It is in a no-man's area near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel and was a parking lot, across from another parking lot. The immediate area isn't very active streetlife-wise and isn't very interesting.

It will uplift and be a positive addition to the area.

[10023]

Originally Posted by R@ptor

And you have to give him credit for that.

I still hope that we will see a NY skyline in the future that covers the entire southern half of Manhattan from the Battery Park to the Central Park. And someone needs to make the first step.

Won't happen because you'll never build over the West Village this way. The most you'll see there are sporadic buildings like Richard Meier's on the West Side Highway. And this is precisely as it should be because the West Village is currently one of the best urban neighborhoods in the world. It would be destroyed by buildings like this one. SoHo is on a different scale, and since this site was a parking lot anyway, it's OK.

[10023]

Originally Posted by antinimby

It's not SoHo eventhough the advertising claims that it is. It is in a no-man's area near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel and was a parking lot, across from another parking lot. The immediate area isn't very active streetlife-wise and isn't very interesting.

It's SoHo. It's not the cast iron historic district, but it's SoHo. There's nothing else to call the area south of Houston and north of Canal.

[antinimby]

Originally Posted by 10023

It's SoHo. It's not the cast iron historic district, but it's SoHo. There's nothing else to call the area south of Houston and north of Canal.

Actually there is and it's called Hudson Square. SoHo's boundaries are universally understood to be east of Sixth Ave. (see Wikipedia here). Trump is a block west of Sixth, making outside of SoHo.

[sciguy0504]

Imagine the views. They alone would be worth the money.

[NYC4Life]

Updated On 11/10/08 at 05:30PM

Trump Soho tops off, becomes tallest building in 'hood


Trump Soho


Troubled luxury condo-hotel Trump Soho has topped out at 46 stories tall, making it the tallest building in Soho. The tower at 246 Spring Street is being developed by the Trump Organization, Bayrock Group and the Sapir Organization. Completion is expected for fall 2009. Prodigy International Development Sales is the exclusive sales and marketing agent for the project. The project has faced many obstacles during construction, including multiple violations from the Department of Buildings, one for a crane that smashed the window of an adjacent building. Three construction workers were hurt on the site, and in January, one worker fell to his death when the building's scaffolding collapsed. TRD

[10023]

Originally Posted by antinimby

Actually there is and it's called Hudson Square. SoHo's boundaries are universally understood to be east of Sixth Ave. (see Wikipedia here). Trump is a block west of Sixth, making outside of SoHo.

That's nice if you work for Corcoran Group. I have yet to encounter anybody who refers to this area as "Hudson Square" in conversation, and this includes somebody who lives there.

I agree that the neighborhood is kind of a dead zone and doesn't really feel like SoHo (though different parts of SoHo feel different), and it's not packed with retail and restaurants like SoHo, but this little 20 square block stub of Manhattan is not a distinct neighborhood. In fact if you're anywhere on Spring St., you're in SoHo.

[genop]

I swear this tower sticks out like a sour thumb.

[Shantytown Architect]

Originally Posted by genop

I swear this tower sticks out like a sour thumb.

You licked it?

[NYC4Life]

Originally Posted by genop

I swear this tower sticks out like a sour thumb.

The tower sits between the two skyscraper clusters of Midtown and Downtown.

[10023]

Originally Posted by genop

I swear this tower sticks out like a sour thumb.

Yeah but the views are probably absolutely unbelievable for this reason.

[10023]

Really cool 360-degree view on the website.

You see clearly here why there will NEVER be a continuous line of towers from Downtown to Midtown. They would have to jump the West Village, where low scale is sacrosanct.

http://www.trumpsoho.com/html/location.html

[genop]

Don't get me wrong i do like the tower, its just that i never thought they would build something that big in that part of manhattan

[Jazzhands]

[yarabundi]

Originally Posted by 10023

Yeah but the views are probably absolutely unbelievable for this reason.

That's exactly what I was thinking !! Soho inhabitants must be absolutely angry but condo's owner in this tower are probably equally ecstatic !!