NEW YORK | MID/LOW RISES | General Developments Updates/Compilation

[chris08876]

Project: 553 West End Avenue (Conversion)

Existing Building:

Cary Tamarkin will convert the site of a former Catholic school at West End Avenue and 87th Street into a residential building, according to permits filed with the Department of Buildings today. The developer paid $50 million in October for the building and air rights at 553-559 West End Avenue, which was formerly home to the St. Agnes Boys High School and owned by the Archdiocese of New York. The existing seven-story building, which totals 53,000 square feet will be expanded to eight stories, and span nearly 81,000 square feet. Recreation space will replace the school’s cellar levels and each of the floors will hold two apartments, although filings also note there will be a total of 17 dwelling units.

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/03/....y9e0c3sx.dpuf

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 59 Frost Street

Original Post with rendering and info: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=102


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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...-frost-street/

[chris08876]

Project(s): 228 East 20th Street AND 227 East 19th Street

Note: The highrise component of this 3 building project is in the highrise thread.


228 East 20th Street


227 East 19th Street

The Cabrini Medical Center shuttered in 2008, and the Chetrit Group and Clipper Equity jointly purchased it in 2013 for $150 million.

228 East 20th Street and 227 East 19th Street to have 54 units each; and a new building at 224 East 20th Street to have eight full-floor apartments.

Of the conversions, the most dramatic is 209-225 East 19th Street, where architect Woods Bagot will replace the small windows with glass panels that extend down the building’s facade. The project is expected to be completed in 2016.

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/03/....Q4tCwIki.dpuf

[sparkling]

Status update: ODA’s 22-22 Jackson Avenue in LIC

Joyce Chen
MARCH 16, 2015

ODA-designed 22-22 Jackson Avenue, next to the former 5 Pointz site, is fulfilling its boxy destiny in Long Island City.

Located across the street from MoMA PS1, the 11-story, 175-unit project by the Gershon Company will measure about 123,000 square feet, according to permits filed in June 2013 and issued in September 2014. There will be about 5,500 square feet of retail. The property traded in December 2012 for $16.5 million to 2222 Jackson LLC, Department of Finance records indicate.

The cast concrete, chunky facade extrudes at intervals for a textured, dynamic effect. Amenities will include a two-story lobby with lounge and library spaces, indoor pool, gym, attended parking, private storage, bike storage and roof deck.

More photos below from this weekend:

[streetscaper]

The new design is much better.. more brick

[chris08876]

Project: The Justin ( 225 East 81st Street )

Upper East Side condo conversion 225 East 81st Street has rebirthed itself as “The Justin.”

The revamped brownstone started sales in the fall, with condos priced from $3.5 million, according to Curbed, which reported on the project’s new name last week. Now, the full new website has launched, touting full-floor three-bedroom units, a triplex maisonette with private garden and the penthouse with a 1,700-square-foot roof deck.

Vail Associates Architects redesigned the residences, and the developer is Michael Paul Enterprises. The two available units are Residence 3, a 1,776-square-foot three-bedroom asking $3.3 million (down from its original $3.5 million price) and Residence 1, a four-bedroom maisonette asking $5.995 million.

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http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/03/ues-justin.html

[chris08876]

Project: 76 North Sixth Street

The new design, by Laura Trevino’s Williamsburg-based Bureau V, has a façade “comprised of a field of angled metal panels,” according to the architect, “that serve to both define the silhouette of the building and act as a rain-screen for the residential portion of the façade.”

The project features 2,800 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor, plus three apartments, each with more than 2,000 square feet of floorspace (almost surely condos, given the size of the units and the white hot market for condos in Northside Williamsburg). The project would reach four floors (with a first-floor mezzanine) into the air, rising nearly 65 feet – the limit according to the zoning code.

Dankyle Realty, headed by Kevin Dolan, is the developer. They picked up the empty lot in 2009 for $1.5 million, purchasing it from an entity that bought it for $1 million in 2005.

Completion is targeted for 2016.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/03/rev...liamsburg.html

[chris08876]

Project: Washington Heights Pedestrian Plaza

The city broke ground Friday on a long-awaited project to create a pedestrian plaza on West 175th Street that will serve everyone from local vendors to performance artists.

Under the Department of Transportation’s public plazas program, the block-long space between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue will be transformed to include café tables and chairs, street trees, a public bathroom and an information kiosk.

The project, which is being funded by a grant from the city, should be completed by Aug. 1, according to the Department of Design and Construction.

“After years of planning and a $3 million investment by the city, today we come together to see a space our community has valued for decades transformed into a 14,000-square-foot town square,” City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said Friday.

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http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2015...laza#slideshow

[chris08876]

Project: Mount Sinai Queens in Astoria Expansion (Queens)

Despite the trend of residential projects replacing hospital facilities in New York City, there is currently 3.4 million square feet of medical office space costing $1.8 billion under development in the New York area, according to health care real estate data firm Revista.

The new cost-conscious health care culture is putting pressure on hospitals to make services efficient for patients — creating a trend toward urgent care facilities replacing emergency rooms and older hospitals making room for outpatient surgery centers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A greater variety of specialists are also being offered under one roof so that patients don’t have to travel between facilities, as in the case of the Maimonides Medical Center, which broke ground on a 140,000-square-foot facility in Borough Park last week. The $100 million facility will allow patients to visit an array of health care providers in the same building.

“This design is a different way of thinking about and providing care,” said Eric Carmichael, a principal of Frauenshuh HealthCare Real Estate Solutions, the Minneapolis-based company that is developing the property. Health Care REIT Inc. owns the property.

At Mount Sinai in Queens, a historic building was knocked down in 2013 to make way for a primary and specialty outpatient service center.

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york...tor-1427071460

[antinimby]

That architect is a retard. All that glass on the upper floors but a blank wall on the ground floor, where there should be glass instead.

[Ploppalopp]

Yeah, that blank wall is terrible now that you mention it. I think they need to change a couple of things on this building.

[chris08876]

Project: 212 North 4th Street (Recently Completed)

Located off Metropolitan Avenue near Roebling Street, the five-story, 25-unit building offers one- to four-bedroom apartments. Meshberg Group designed the development, which bears a brick and wrought iron exterior inspired by turn-of-the-century factories. Every unit has exterior private space, with French doors opening to a balcony. Pricing ranges from about $3,200 per month for a one-bedroom to $6,600 per month for a four-bedroom.

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http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/03...liamsburg.html

[chris08876]

Project: 1295 Nostrand Avenue (Aka 310 Clarkson)

Hudson Companies just sent us this new rendering (above and below) for the 170-unit building they are planning at the corner of Nostrand and Clarkson avenues in East Flatbush. The architect for 1295 Nostrand Avenue, also known as 310 Clarkson, is Jonathan Kirschenfeld, of Floating Pool fame.

The parcel down the street Hudson just closed on (see our 9:30 am post today) will be a separate building. That one will have about 250 apartments, and the architect will be CetraRuddy, a Hudson exec told us.

Both buildings will have retail on the ground floor. The first project will break ground before the end of the spring. The project down the block at 318-350 Clarkson Avenue will break ground in 2016, Hudson told us. Both deals were brokered by CPEX, incidentally.

We think the design for 1295 Nostrand/310 Clarkson is one of the most attractive for a new building in Brooklyn we’ve seen in years. Sure, it’s a big apartment building and not row houses, but there are lots of apartment buildings out here already. The brick and windows should fit in nicely with the area, and we like the stores at ground level.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...-frontpage-top

[antinimby]

^ that building should be denied just based on ugliness alone.

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by antinimby

^ that building should be denied just based on ugliness alone.

Funny thing is the city is actually making it easier to get designs like this through. Easing the requirements when it comes to designs. I'd expect much more of this, especially as the housing plan increases.

The way I look at it, can't have winners all the time. Some of these mid rises are nice, but I'll admit that others are just blasphemy.

[Busy Bee]

^yeah but it's 2015! Where are our holograms? I was promised holograms!

[antinimby]

Four stories!? Where did the air rights go?

[chris08876]

Project: 260 West 153rd Street

Prolific affordable housing developer L+M Development Partners have released a rendering for their newest project at 260 West 153rd Street in Harlem, a seven-story building with rents aimed at low-income families.

Designed by Curtis+Ginsberg Architects, the development will fill a long-vacant lot between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macombs Place, a block from the Harlem River.

It’ll house 51 apartments split across 41,442 square feet of residential space, for an average unit size of about 812 square feet. There will also be 8,000 square feet of parking, which is mentioned in this press release about the project but not listed on the permits. The ground floor will include 14,331 square feet of community space, which will become a day care center and offices for Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/04/rev...in-harlem.html

[PeterQM]

While Manhattan buyers typically pay a great premium for a park-front address, a single subway stop away in Long Island City, a new condominium aptly named Liv@ Murray Park North will begin sales with homes starting around $400,000. Developed by George Xu and Century Development Group, the six-story, 39-unit building will house a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments designed by Queens’ own Raymond Chan Architects.

To read more

[yankeesfan1000]

Bloomberg is reporting that Chinese developer Fosun is co-developing a 47 story condo tower on Madison with JD Carlisle LLC. Anyone have any idea what tower this is?