NEW YORK | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[Hypothalamus]

Curbed NY:

This Bronx Housing Megaproject Aims To Be Another Via Verde
Monday, December 23, 2013, by Hana R. Alberts

....
The major overhaul for the largest tract of city-owned vacant land in the southern part of the borough, the five-building, 985-unit mixed-income development—bordered by Bergen Avenue, Brook Avenue and East 149th Street—will henceforth be known as La Central.
....

Tallest Building:

· Building A: 211 affordable apartments; approximately 48,000 square foot YMCA-community facility; a diabetes prevention program operated by Montefiore Medical Center; rooftop farm; approximately 19,000 square feet of new retail space.
· Building B: 279 affordable apartments; approximately 24,000 square feet of retail space, including restaurant space; cellar level garage with approximately 138 parking spaces.
· Building C: 137 affordable apartments; Music Has No Enemies (MHNE) which will occupy approximately 5,000 square feet of community space consisting of a recording studio and curate workshops and open the recording studio to projects for and by the community.
· Building D: 160 affordable apartments; 10,000 square foot mental health clinic operated by Comunilife that will work with veterans living within the development and individuals within the community.
· Building E: 198 affordable apartments; Bronx Astronomy Tower and Lab - a rooftop telescope to be used by the Bronx High School of Science; daycare facility.
· The approximately 7,000 square-foot triangular vacant lot at the intersection of Brook and Bergen Avenues will be developed as open space, accessible to the general public.

Formerly known as the Bronxchester Urban Renewal sites, the winners of the RFP were BRP Development Corporation, Hudson Companies Inc., Common Ground, Comunilife, The Kretchmer Companies, ELH Mgmt LLC, and the YMCA. The project still has to go through the ULURP official review process before construction can begin, but nonetheless ground is projected to get broken in 2015.

[Hypothalamus]

The Real Deal:

Sam Chang buys $26.5M garage site for hotel
December 23, 2013 05:29PM
By Mark Maurer


From left: 346 West 40th Street, Haym Gross’ proposed rendering and Sam Chang

Although he claims he is in the twilight of his career, prolific hotel developer Sam Chang is continuing a string of purchases. Most recently, he paid $26.5 million for a 53,172-square-foot parking garage late last week, in order to build a hotel, he confirmed to The Real Deal.

Chang, who said earlier this month he intends to retire within the next year, bought out the long-term lease on the site at 346 West 40th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. Peach Parking Corporation held a triple-net lease on the six-story, 250-space garage that would have expired in February 2030.
.....

[Hypothalamus]

Brownstoner:

Rendering for Building at Corner of Nevins and Schermerhorn Streets
By Cate 12/24/13 11:00am

A reader sent in this rendering of the new building planned for the empty lot at 319 Schermerhorn at the corner of Nevins Street downtown, which he found on the construction fence. It looks like plans for the building have changed slightly: It will be 18 stories, not 20, and will have 61 units, according to permits.

It’s still residential; across the street two hotels are going up. The empty lot was purchased by an LLC in January for $10,765,364, according to PropertyShark. It is supposed to wrap in spring 2015, according to the sign, but there is a partial stop work order in effect on the property.

[chris08876]

Tubeworm fine work you are doing. Half of these I've never heard of and really shows the scope of construction that is happening. Many hidden gems are rising everywhere. I think the Bronx development with 1000 units plus should get its own thread? Its a huge project that can transform a whole neighborhood.

[Hypothalamus]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Tubeworm fine work you are doing. Half of these I've never heard of and really shows the scope of construction that is happening. Many hidden gems are rising everywhere. I think the Bronx development with 1000 units plus should get its own thread? Its a huge project that can transform a whole neighborhood.

Thanks! The Bronx development should get its own thread. I don't know any other details regarding that development, besides what I posted, but I think some others on here may have more info. It's surely a significant development for that borough!

Edit: I just saw your post-- thanks for making the thread!

[Hypothalamus]

As of December 28, 2013...
Photo Credit: Tectonic


©tectonic | granted permission to post photos here

[Hypothalamus]

BuzzBuzzHome:

Brauser Group developing 23-story FiDi project at 54 Fulton
By: Joyce Chen December 30, 2013


Image: GMAP

Manhattan garage owner The Brauser Group is erecting a new building at one of its parking properties in the Financial District.

A 23-story mixed-use development will rise at 54 Fulton Street, on the corner of Cliff Street, according to a plan exam application filed December 23rd. The architect of record is Goldstein, Hill & West. The 120-unit building will measure a total of 101,736 square feet.

The project includes storage, bike storage, a gym, first-floor retail, a lounge and a game room on the 23rd floor.

Brauser has owned the Fulton site since the 1980s, according to public records.
....

[Hypothalamus]

BuzzBuzzHome:

Chelsea is getting a Peter 🞵🞵🞵🞵-designed hotel at 132 West 27th
By: Joyce Chen December 30, 2013


Image: Massey Knakal

🞵🞵🞵🞵 is designing a new 21-story hotel at 132 West 27th Street in Chelesa.

The site is currently a 120-foot-wide parking lot at 132-142 West 27th Street. The 124,934-square-foot hotel will have 313 rooms, according to the plan exam application filed December 23rd.

Artimus Construction purchased the lot between Sixth and Seventh avenues for $35 million in July, The Real Deal reported.

The parking lot operator has a lease through March 2014. The property, which originally asked $37.5 million, went on the market in October 2012, according to The Real Deal.

[Perklol]

Is Peter 🞵🞵🞵🞵 a Gene Kaufman type "architect"?

[Hypothalamus]

BuzzBuzzHome:

Parking garage at 326 West 37th to become Gene Kaufman hotel
By: Joyce Chen January 2, 2014


Image: GMAP

The Garment District is getting cloaked in another Gene Kaufman-designed hotel at 326 West 37th Street.

The 22-story hotel, located between Eighth and Ninth avenues, will have 240 rooms. The project will measure 88,860 square feet and rise 257 feet, according to the plan exam application filed January 2nd. There will be a gym and first-floor eatery.

The site is currently a parking lot. Investment firm Bridgeton Holdings is listed on the Department of Buildings permit.

However, prolific hotel developer Sam Chang is reportedly in contract to buy the property for $30 million-plus, according to The Real Deal. The transaction is expected to close by this month. In December 2013, Chang told The Real Deal that he had no immediate development plans for the site, identified as 326-330 West 37th: “The market is turning around, so it’s time to buy something for future development,” Chang said.

[Hypothalamus]

Convention center and 25-story hotel headed for area near Citi Field

Fleet Financial Group bought $17 million car dealership site in Corona, Queens across the Grand Central Parkway from Willets Point

BY CLARE TRAPASSO / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014, 5:31 PM


A development group plans to build a $200 million convention center, hotel, apartments and retail on the site of a car dealership in Corona.

A spacious convention center and 25-story hotel and apartment complex will soon rise on the site of a Corona car dealership near Citi Field.

Fleet Financial Group plans to break ground on the $200 million project in June. The Flushing-based group purchased the 1.67-acre DiBlasi Ford dealership, at 112-21 Northern Blvd., for $17 million last month.

The site sits across the Grand Central Parkway from Citi Field, where a $3 billion mega-mall and housing complex is planned for Willets Point.

[hughesnick312]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

As of December 28, 2013...
Photo Credit: Tectonic


©tectonic | granted permission to post photos here

Nice

[Hypothalamus]

NY YIMBY:

Revealed: 333 West 38th Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON JANUARY 7TH 2014 AT 12:30 PM


333 West 38th Street, image via Kaufman's website

Another Kaufman-designed project is rising at 333 West 38th Street; permits indicate the structure will soon stand 21 floors, and contain a total of 79 hotel rooms. The renderings were posted on Kaufman’s website; the site’s developer is Optima Real Estate LLC.

333 West 38th Street is ‘ideal’ for hotel development given the site’s history; the land is contaminated, and the new building will sit atop a slab of concrete 3.5 feet thick, which also comes with a ‘vapor barrier’ to prevent any human exposure to toxic elements. The full clean-up plan is at NYC’s office of environmental remediation, and also mentions that the plot will be entirely paved over, with no “open space, or areas not covered by concrete.”

In terms of design, the 21-story structure is relatively benign; the five-story base will be equal to the site’s last structure, keeping the street-wall intact. The tower portion is also quite slender; at just over twenty floors, it will be nearly invisible, though coverings for the water towers will slightly extend the development’s verticality.

With permits approved, completion is likely in the 2015 timeframe.

[Hypothalamus]

BuzzBuzzHome:

New 15-story project by Ironstate Development in the works for Chelsea
By: Joyce Chen January 7, 2014


Image: GMAP

Ironstate Development is plotting a new 15-story residential project at 221 West 29th Street.

The building, located between Seventh and Eighth avenues, will have 67 apartments. The site is currently used as a parking lot. The architect of record is Goldstein, Hill & West, according to the plan exam application filed January 7th.

The 152-foot-tall project will have storage, bike storage and parking for 12 cars.
....

[Hypothalamus]

A New Upper East Side 'Skyscraper' Will Rise In Four Years
Wednesday, January 8, 2014, by Hana R. Alberts

The same developer behind super-luxe Noho condo conversion the Schumacher has just snatched up a prime corner lot at the insanely busy intersection of 86th Street and Lexington Avenue. The Real Deal reports that Stillman Development plans to scrap what's currently two non-exciting, low-rise commercial buildings and build "a 210,000-square-foot mixed-use tower with retail on the first four floors of the building and high-end residential units up top."
...

Amassing the land to make room for this "skyscraper" wasn't easy. The seller of 151 East 86th Street is Town International, the company that owns the New York Sports Club there—which, it so happens, has been promised a lease in the new project. Town International netted $82 million in the sale. Meanwhile, the corner site at 161 East 86th Street was a little harder to come by, with Stillman entering into a rather complicated long-term lease agreement with its owner, Sol Goldman, that allows him to build condos above the retail space. Stillman says the building will be complete "in four years" time.

Deal Struck for Upper East Side Condo Development
By Keiko Morris January 21, 2014, 7:11 PM

Developers have finalized a complicated part of a deal that will allow them to build a 21-story luxury condominium tower on the Upper East Side.

Stillman Development International LLC and its partner, Ceruzzi Properties LLC–which is based in Fairfield, Conn.–signed an agreement with Sol Goldman Investments to lease the lower two floors of 147 E. 86th St. and purchase the air rights, an official said. The joint venture is also in contract to purchase the adjacent 151 E. 86th St.

The deal allows the joint venture to complete the footprint for a 210,000 square-foot residential building at the corner of 86th Street and Lexington Avenue with retail on the first four floors, said Matt Crosby, director of Eastern Consolidated, which represented both the buyers and sellers.
Mr. Crosby declined to disclose the terms of the lease and air rights deal.
....

[Hypothalamus]

What’s the latest at 44-35 and 44-51 Purves Street?

Hammers and drills. Bulldozers and trucks. That is what has been rolling in and out of 44-35 and 44-51 Purves Street in the last month, adding to one of the most heavily constructed blocks in all of New York City. The Criterion Group had originally planned to use the two lots here for a pair of large rental buildings. Purves I was slated to be a 22-story, 121-unit residential tower while Purves II was supposed to be 28-story, 158-unit tower. The lots were flipped this summer for $32,000,000, but according to Department of Building permits, the new owner plans on doing… the exact same thing!

Construction crews have been working non-stop since November on structural, foundation, excavation and shoring work. Here is the latest on their progress:

Foundation coming to 44-35 and 44-51 Purves Street

[Hypothalamus]

Curbed NY:

Shvo Pays $130M For Soho Site, Condos Will Likely Come Next
Thursday, January 9, 2014, by Jessica Dailey

.....
Shvo and development partner Erez Itzhaki paid $130 million for an eight-parcel site in the Hudson Square area of Soho. The 20,000-square-foot property—bound by Watts, Broome, and Varick Streets—currently consists of townhouses and vacant land, with some 280,000-square-feet of air rights. Halpern Real Estate Ventures, Bizzi & Partners, and Aronov Development are also involved with the project.

As of right, Shvo & co. could build a 290-foot-tall structure on the site, which overlooks the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. Given Shvo's real estate record, condos are likely in the future, especially since that's what the Hudson Square rezoning encourages. After a bit of a hiatus, Shvo came back to the industry last year, announcing plans for a new condo on the site of a former gas station in Chelsea. While waiting for approvals to start construction, Shvo delighted us all by turning the site into a faux sheep pasture. Here's hoping he brings an equally zany display to his Soho site.

[Hypothalamus]

Curbed NY:

Yes, The Country Of Senegal Could Be Your Midtown Landlord
Thursday, January 9, 2014, by Hana R. Alberts

......
Here's where it gets relevant: now a joint venture between the two wants to erect a 22-story tower on the spot. Permits filed with the Department of Buildings show 20 residences and office space earmarked for the structure, which is between Second and Third avenues. The two parcels at 227-235 East 44th Street went through a legal kerfuffle late last year, but now that that's all tied up and Yeffet is involved, plus the permits have been filed, keep an eye out for construction to start.

[Hypothalamus]

BuzzBuzzHome:

Love Hertz: Naftali Group’s garage-to-condos project at 206 West 77th
By: Joyce Chen January 9, 2014


Photo: Massey Knakal Realty Services

Naftali Group made waves when it snatched up an Upper West Side site at 206-210 West 77th Street last summer for a crazy-big $55.5 million. In fact, interested condo buyers were calling the developer before the land sale even closed, The New York Observer reported.

And now, permits have arrived for the proposed 18-story luxury building between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway.

The 80,802-square-foot project will have 2,317 square feet of retail on the ground floor, according to the plan exam application filed January 9th. Goldstein, Hill & West is the architect of record.

According to Naftali Group’s website, the condominiums will consist of “approximately 30 large three- and four-bedroom units.”

The second and third floors will contain duplexes, and floors 4 through 12 will have two apartments per level. The units on levels 13 to 18 will be full-floor residences. Amenities include storage, bike storage, fitness center and a roof deck.

The 75-foot-wide site, currently a six-story, 250-space parking garage, is one of the few prime development sites left in the Upper West Side.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

Curbed NY:

Shvo Pays $130M For Soho Site, Condos Will Likely Come Next
Thursday, January 9, 2014, by Jessica Dailey

My cousin lives in the building directly abutting this lot. I've long wondered why it hasn't been developed - it's a great area, but residents will unfortunately have to deal with the joys of endless traffic curtsey of the Holland tunnel.

Are those townhouses part of this development? If so, are they going to be razed?