NEW YORK | 495 11th Avenue | 680 + 653 FT | 56 + 55 FLOORS

[HK4Life]

[QUOTE=pico44;7190612]Perhaps I am the only one, but a neighborhood that endangers "Yups" or anyone else is something whose character I'm not interested in preserving.

And just to be sure I've got this right, you're saying living in Manhattan is a birthright?[/

I love it when "intellectuals" just love to yap yap yap and counter things for the sheer joy of a debate. But they never listen. They just like to hear themselves "talk" to impress no one but themselves. I really don't care whether you are interested in preserving the character of a neighborhood my family has lived in for 5 generations or not. Oh I can't say the word yup but someone can call poor people shlongs? Are you listening to yourself? I'm not saying living in Manhattan is a birthright. I am saying that living in Hell's Kitchen is.

So I am guessing this is all about jealousy here because none of you are poor enough for "affordable housing" or rich enough for market rate.

Well tisk-tisk and ta-ta. Aurevoir.

[chris08876]

Affordable Housing, Supermarket Heading to 11th Ave. Slaughterhouse Site

More than 230 units of affordable housing, dorm rooms and a grocery store are heading to 11th Avenue as part of a plan to transform an NYPD parking lot into a mixed-use development.

Radson Development and Kingspoint Heights Development will build 234 affordable apartments, 200,000 square feet of office space and a 12,000-square-foot grocery store at 495 11th Ave., between West 39th and 40th streets, the city’s Economic Development Corporation announced Monday.

The city put out a request for proposals seeking developers for the site — which once housed a slaughterhouse owned by the New York Butchers’ Dressed Meat Company — at the end of August 2015.

In addition to affordable housing, the project will include more than 88,000 square feet of dormitory space, more than 28,000 square feet of “amenity space” — including a health club, a laundry facility and a food court — and a new NYPD parking facility, the EDC said.

EDC and the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development worked with members of Community Board 4 to identify “key community priorities” for the site, the agency noted.

Details about income requirements for the affordable housing units were not included in the announcement.

An EDC spokesman didn’t immediately provide a timeline for the project’s completion.

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https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2017050...-site-affordable-housing-edc-11th-avenue

[Hudson11]

seems like an update on this project slipped under the SSP radar. From May 2017:

Hell’s Kitchen slaughterhouse site will get 234 affordable apartments

Set to stand just under 500 feet, the future tower will house 200,000 square feet of office space, 80,000 square feet of dorms, a 12,000 square-foot grocery store, assorted amenities—a gym, a food court—and, perhaps most crucially, 234 affordable apartments, to be subsidized by the commercial space.

[Prezrezc]

^^
"Under the spreading chestnut tree...."

[yankeesfan1000]

I know this has been said before, but the city should be rezoning city owned lots out here for higher density and using the proceeds to fund the 10th Ave 7 train stop. Our city is run by morons.

49-Story Mixed-Use Tower with 100% Affordable Housing Moves into Environmental Review Process

"...The city-owned lot at 495 Eleventh Avenue is currently used as an NYPD parking lot but if all goes according to plans, come 2023, the site will yield a 49-story, 560-foot tall tower composed of affordable housing units, dorm rooms, commercial office, and a supermarket...

...In a press release from May 2017, the now-Speaker of the New York City Council, Corey Johnson said, "This project will provide hundreds of families with affordable, high-quality housing in the heart of one of the most important neighborhoods in the United States. We must use every tool at our disposal to keep the West Side affordable to working and middle-class New Yorkers, and projects like this are key to helping us meet that challenge..."

[Submariner]

What a joke.

People should pay for the privilege of living in that neighborhood, not win it in some lottery process.

This should be, as others have mentioned, a market rate tower designed to fund subway extension for affordable housing in less expensive parts of town.

[chris08876]

9 Dekalb for example will have a lottery system for the affordable units. Some lucky SOB's if they get in. And it will be dirt cheap prices too. Like where talking bloody cheap rents.

[chris08876]

Its looking like this development will be complete garbage.


Credit: parkaveguy

[Prezrezc]

Marginally interesting if it weren't for the triangular "crown" on the taller tower....

[colemonkee]

Oh man, is that the revised design for this? Did Micheal Graves return from the dead for one last Halloween prank?

[matt19215]

What in the world is this design
I guess if you are building affordable housing in Hudson yards the only to make it profitable is to cut costs on design and materials

And wtf are the things on top of the taller tower? Mini windmills?

[Design-mind]

Yup ugly indeed! The mechanical rooftop portions look like something from a dystopian movie set. Just because it is in Hell's Kitchen doesn't mean it should look like hell.

[Eidolon]

Worst looking building proposed this decade! It looks like it is from some communist hellhole, deport it to North Korea!

[chris08876]

New Renderings Released For Dual-Skyscraper Development At 495 Eleventh Avenue In Midtown, Manhattan

New renderings have been revealed for 495 Eleventh Avenue, a pair of residential skyscrapers in Midtown, Manhattan. Located between West 39th and 40th Streets directly next to the Jakob K. Javits Center expansion, the two towers will stand 680 feet tall and 57 stories, and 653 feet tall and 56 stories. The site currently functions as a parking lot for the New York Police Department.

The new renderings offer a cleaner and friendlier appearance than previous iterations for the project released over the past couple of years. The multi-story podium features a handsome grid of large windows and light-colored panels, which seem to continue upward across various elevations of the two superstructures. Two identical mechanical extensions would cap each roof parapet with what looks like vertical metal panels enclosing the walls. The new square footage of the interior programming are as follows: 275 residential units totaling 236,699 square feet; 75 supportive housing units collectively measuring 48,655 square feet; a hotel, offices, and retail space adding up to 296,247 square feet; and 55 parking spots for the police tallying 38,971 square feet. The screenshots below, taken from the YIMBY forums, show the updated look.

A completion date for 2022 was initially set, then revised to 2023. We will have to wait and see if and when construction actually commences to get a better idea of a new timeline.

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NYY

[chris08876]

Title changed to: NEW YORK | 495 11th Avenue | 680 + 653 FT | 57 + 56 FLOORS

[NYguy]

An improvement. Still bland.

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by NYguy

An improvement. Still bland.

At least its not more blue glass. This area needs a little diversity in materials. Now if we could get a couple brick facades and maybe something akin to Robert AM Stern, the whole Hudson Yards/Javits-Adjacent area would be a lot better. I'm not the biggest fan of RAMSA, but something clad in stone or faux stone would help break up the relentless onslaught of blue glass in this one spot.

[mrnyc]

why two towers with a big gap between them? they could have gotten a lot more apts in with a single block buster glass box.

[JMKeynes]

A 700' landmark project in most US cities is filler in NY. It looks good though.

https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/10/permits...th-avenue-in-midtown-west-manhattan.html

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by JMKeynes

A 700' landmark project in most US cities is filler in NY. It looks good though.

https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/10/permits...th-avenue-in-midtown-west-manhattan.html