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If there is still any doubt about what Robert Stern will do here, just look a couple of blocks over at what he has done with 15 CPW. Or read about it.
The King of Central Park West
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/01/23...xpensive_buildings_will_surprise_you.php
Some Of 2013's Most Expensive Buildings Will Surprise You
January 23, 2014
by Hana R. Alberts
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New Construction Manhattan broke down the price-per-square-foot sales data for 2013 in order to come up with the most expensive buildings in the borough, and—no shocker here—15 Central Park West topped the list. The Limestone Jesus had eight sales that went for an average of $5,636 psf. It's followed by both Time Warner Center residences; first, the south tower ($4,166, with five sales), and then the Residences at Mandarin Oriental ($4,044, with four).
...Fifth place belongs to Robert A.M. Stern-designed Superior Ink, logging seven sales at $3,901 psf.
Not all of these buildings are megaproject blockbusters, but let that be a lesson learned: it only takes one sale to set a price-per-square-foot record. Remember, we expect to see a lot more One57 closings in 2014, which should boost its position.
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http://mgross.com/writing/books/house-of-outrageous-fortune/
House of Outrageous Fortune
Fifteen Central Park West, The World's Most Powerful Address
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In real-estate-obsessed New York, no new building has captured the city’s imagination—or as many of its richest residents—like Fifteen Central Park West.
In House of Outrageous Fortune, America’s foremost chronicler of the upper-crust, journalist and bestselling author Michael Gross, turns his much-admired gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that’s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park, and mixes an engrossing business epic with hilarious social comedy to create a dishy exposé of today’s most wealthy and famous. This is the colorful story of a record-setting building’s inspired genesis and costly construction as well as the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood.
With two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a lavish screening room, a private sixty-seat restaurant offering residents room service, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, and penthouses that cost almost $100 million, Fifteen is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the 21st century.
And you know any building that’s home to such unimaginable wealth and heavyweight egos—its cast of characters includes Denzel Washington, Sting, Alex Rodriquez, Norman Lear, NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon, hedge fund heads Daniel Loeb and Daniel Och, Russian and Chinese oligarchs, and top executives of Citibank, JPMorganChase, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Disney, Google, and Yahoo!, among many more–will be chock-full of jaw-dropping excess.
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In many ways, I see 220 CPS as the larger budget sequal to 15 CPW. We are a few years away from it being completed, but I expect it to shine no less.
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