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

[chris08876]

Project: 364 Bedford Avenue (Recently Complete)

We were amazed to see Sunday the long-stalled site at 364 Bedford Avenue has been completed (or close to it) and is now for sale. A half-finished construction site for years, one of its former owners was murdered developer Menachem Stark. He and his business partners were sued after defaulting on loans for 364 Bedford Avenue and other properties. A man, possibly a vagrant, was found stabbed to death in the unfinished construction site in 2012.

The property, known as the Bedford Lofts LLC and designed by Karl Fischer, was sold to an LLC in August of 2013 for $11,707,160. Stark was murdered in January 2014. Now it looks ready, at least on the outside, and signs outside from 5CRE and Pinnacle Realty say the building is for sale. We found one listing for a rental apartment in the building dating from June but the building doesn’t appear to be open yet.

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

[chris08876]

Project: 100 Steuben Street

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100 Steuben Street will have 41 rental units, and while a completion date has not been announced, ground has already been broken.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/01/per...lt-island.html

[chris08876]

Project: 508 Waverly Avenue


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http://www.djapc.com/on-the-boards-p-1280.html

[chris08876]

Project: 1808 Condominiums



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http://www.djapc.com/1808-condominiums-p-1234.html

[chris08876]

Project: Bedford Park Manor (Recently Finished)

The developers of the Bedford Park Manor, the first residential complex to be built on Webster Ave. since a 2009 rezoning, say that nearly 50,000 people applied for 25 apartments marked as “affordable.”

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...cle-1.2068094#

[chris08876]

Project: 627 Dekalb Avenue

The building at 627 Dekalb Avenue will have 28 apartments over 25,258 square feet of residential space, as well as 14 bike storage spots, 15 parking spaces and a roof deck. Six of the apartments will be duplexes, according to building applications filed last summer.

The developer is Eli Nahman, who paid $3,487,500 for the property in October 2013. Demolition applications have been filed but not approved for the existing building, a single-story garage.

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

[chris08876]

Project: 95 Evergreen Avenue

Daren Hornig‘s Hornig Capital Partners, Savanna and Chelsea Village Associates have purchased a 170,000-square-foot warehouse building at 95 Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick for $33.7 million, Commercial Observer has learned. The sale of what was originally constructed as the historic Schlitz Brewery closed today.

According to Lee Silpe, the senior analyst and chief operating officer of Berko & Associates, the massive building on the corner of Evergreen Avenue and George Street was sold by a group of investors under the name 95 Evergreen Associates and led by Moshe Gottesman. Mr. Silpe represented the seller. Joe Berko of Berko Associates represented the buyer.

This is the first time the warehouse has changed hands in over 30 years

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http://commercialobserver.com/2015/0...ls-for-33-68m/

[chris08876]

Project: 120 Union Avenue

Here’s a first look at the rendering for a six-story rental building planned for 120 Union Avenue in Williamsburg’s Broadway Triangle. Aufgang Architects is designing the project, which will have 96 apartments spread across nearly 70,000 square feet, according to new building applications filed in September. Apartments will range from studios to four-bedrooms, and there will be 1,750 square feet of retail and 65 parking spots.

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

[chris08876]

Project: 217 West 18th Street

The United States Postal Service is looking to sell development rights for the Old Chelsea Station branch, allowing a builder to construct up to eight stories of condominiums on top of the existing two-story property.

Gregory Lackey, a U.S. Post Office real estate asset manager, told Community Board 4 this week that the agency will issue a request for proposals later this month. The 41,600-square-foot building at 217 West 18th Street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The post office currently has the right to extend the building’s height by 83 feet. Old Chelsea Station would stay open, but as much as 6,000 square feet of the existing space would be allocated for a new condominium-building lobby and possibly a gym, DNAinfo reported.

“They’re the ones that are going to decide, ultimately, what is going to be built there,” Lackey told the website, referring to the developer who will be selected.

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/01/....CGZtBSev.dpuf

[chris08876]

Project: 287 Pacific Street

The 10 apartments will be spread over 9,300 square feet of space for a unit average of 930 square feet, with three roomier apartments at the top, including a duplex, and more modest ones beneath. The lack of PTAC units and two-car garage on the ground level suggest to us that it will be condos rather than rentals.

Issac & Stern are the architects for the project (this is the fourth building of theirs this week that we’ve revealed), and the design is a contemporary combination of light stone and dark brick. The five-story building will be a good deal taller than the three-story 19th century structures next to it, but the setback above the third floor creates continuity with the building to the right.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/01/rev...-building.html

[chris08876]

Project: 287 East Houston

Hogg Holdings (ie Andres Hogg) – backed by hedge funders Vinci Partners – is the rightful owner of the properties now (under the “287 LES JV” corporate shell). The firm is currently in a “pre-development” stage for a new residential tower onsite. According to the Hogg’s project portfolio, this is a condo project that will occupy a total of 30,000 square-feet. Height and composition of the development are not yet known, and no plans are yet on file with the Department of Buildings. However, we have spotted demolition teams there on at least one occasion.

One thing is for sure, though. Whatever rises here will become part of the ever-rising East Houston skyline.

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http://www.boweryboogie.com/2015/01/...t-coming-soon/

[chris08876]

Project: 152nd West 128th Street

Walking by a shell at 152nd West 128th Street, we noticed that a sidewalk shed had been posted up with new renovation plans for the existing 4-story building. DOB permits show that an additional two stories will be built on top and the rendering shows that the developer will keep things contextual with the red brick building just east of 7th Avenue. Those two new additional floors will replicate the existing levels and the cornice will be added back on top. It appears more design conscience redevelopment is finally happening uptown these days with existing buildings and those restoring the brownstone blocks of Harlem are finally getting the importance of keeping things contextual.

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http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/20...ownhouses.html

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New renderings for Empire Stores in Dumbo













January 13, 2015
Claire Moses

A new look is available at Midtown Equities’ Empire Stores along the Dumbo waterfront.

Studio V Architects and Perkins Eastman are designing the redevelopment of the Civil War-era property at 55 Water Street, which is being developed by the Cayre family’s Midtown Equities in partnership with HK Organization and Rockwood Capital.

The project will cost roughly $150 million, as The Real Deal reported. The developers are asking approximately $65 per square foot for the converted office space, and a record-breaking $90 per square foot for space at the summit.

When completed in the fall, Empire Stores will include roughly 380,000 rentable square feet of office space, with roughly 80,000 square feet dedicated to retail and restaurant as well as 7,000 square feet of open space on the roof. Brooklyn-based home décor retailer West Elm will be the property’s anchor tenant.

JLL’s Scott Panzer and Howard Hersch are handling all office leases. The foundation systems have been completed, as well as the masonry and timber stabilization. The public passageway from Water Street through the building to Brooklyn Bridge Park is also in the process of being framed, Midtown Equities’ principal Jack Cayre said through a spokesperson. - See more at: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/01/....Zi5F6Byt.dpuf

[chris08876]

Project: 67 Avenue C



1) 7 Floors (Last one is mechanical)
2) 1, 2, 3 bedrooms and 2 penthouses. (7 units)


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http://evgrieve.com/2015/01/condos-r...l-feature.html

[chris08876]

Project: 1229 Atlantic Avenue

A La Quinta Inn is coming to 1229 Atlantic Avenue near Nostrand, where excavation and foundation work recently began at the large, now vacant lot on the Crown Heights/Bed Stuy border. We found this schematic on the fence after leaving the post office next door. The hotel will rise seven stories with 102 rooms, according to new building permits approved in February.

The 34,902-square-foot building will also feature four off-street parking spaces, a recreation room, lounge, meeting and conference rooms. Hotel plans have been in the works since May 2012, when an LLC snagged the 8,440-square-foot property for $1,600,000 and filed initial new building applications. Askon Architects P.C. is designing the building. The La Quinta will join a few other hotels nearby on Atlantic, including a Best Western on the other side of Nostrand, the Hotel Luxe and the Atlantic Motor Inn.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014...lantic-avenue/

[chris08876]

Project: 251 West 14th Street

251 West 14th Street will replace a four-story building from the '20s, which the developers acquired last year for $7.5 million. It will contain 11 full-floor condos, with prices starting at $3 million. Sales are expected to launch in the fall.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/0...eet_condos.php

[chris08876]

Project: 271 Fourth Avenue

Zhao’s project, which will stand 12 stories and 120 feet tall, and have just over 50,000 square feet of floor space. Aesthetically, the simple glass design will be a notch above much of the neighborhood’s new infill from the last decade, with a clean glass façade. Its verticality – a welcome change for Fourth Avenue, where parcels tend to be larger and buildings therefore bulkier and more horizontal – will be broken up by two-story, horizontal segments, with an orange-colored material, perhaps Corten steel, framing the duplex penthouse on top and the ground-floor lobby.

Just next door, at 275 Fourth Avenue, ODA is designing a 75-unit rental building for Adam America that will be much more ornate, with a wedge gouged from a corner of the building resulting in ample outdoor space for many of its units.

Tony Onyeagoro of Building Consulting Engineering is listed as the architect of record, and the project also includes 762 square feet of commercial space, and 2,627 square feet set aside for a community facility use.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/01/rev...ark-slope.html

[chris08876]

Project: 1183 Franklin Avenue

The building will vary in height from six stories to 12, with 112 apartments, ranging from supporting housing units (there will be 35) to large, family-sized apartments (21 three-bedrooms, 37 two-bedrooms, 19 one-bedrooms).

The project is 117,000 square feet in total size, and could contain a photovoltaic solar array on the top of the building and green roofs on the setbacks.

There should be a lot more affordable housing coming to the neighborhood, since the formerly industrial area around Third Avenue, just a block to the west, was rezoned in 2003. While we’ve seen an increasing number of filings for market-rate projects in the South Bronx, affordable housing developers consistently outbid smaller market-rate builders for larger sites like the former industrial parcels that dominate the rezoned area.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/01/rev...orrisania.html

[chris08876]

Project: 318 West 115th Street

The former Raven Chanticleer house sold a couple of years ago and now is being combined with the adjacent property to form one large residential building. Most of the facade at this location on 115th Street by the FDB corridor will be restored except for the stoop based on a rendering out front of the construction site and it appears that more modern penthouse levels will be added on top. Overall, this really helps keep the integrity of the surrounding blocks and shows that developers with higher taste levels are finally arriving uptown. Based on DOB permits, it appears that there will be 6 units altogether when things finish up.

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http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/20...houses-on.html

[chris08876]

Project: 156-164 Delancey Street

The subject property is currently improved by a one story commercial building built full on the approximately 109’ by 25’ lot. Current ownership is offering for sale the residential development rights at the property. The purchaser would demolish the existing structure, construct a new building, and deliver one floor of double height retail back to current ownership. Under the existing R8A/C6-2A zoning with a C1-5 overlay, a developer could build up to approximately 14,715 square feet as-of-right or approximately 19,620 square feet through utilization of the optional Inclusionary Housing Bonus.

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http://www.boweryboogie.com/2015/01/...t-opportunity/