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21-Story Midtown Building To Be Demolished For Skyscraper
A 72-story skyscraper will take the place of a 95-year-old office building on a busy Garment District block, plans show.
By Nick Garber, Patch Staff
Dec 28, 2021
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A 720-foot skyscraper will soon rise on a busy Midtown block — but owners must first tear down the office building that has stood there for nearly a century, plans show.
The 21-story building at 989 Sixth Ave. was built in 1924, between West 36th and 37th streets. In 2007, developers Isaac Chetrit and Ray Yadidi reportedly spent $49 million to purchase it, along with the adjacent empty lot at 991 Sixth Ave.
In the ensuing years, the site has sat largely untouched. The 22-unit office building housed the Bead Center, an emporium for beads and string, on its ground floor, while the next-door lot was converted into a temporary "Herald Square District Shopping Court."
In 2016, The Real Deal reported that Chetrit and Yadidi had enlisted architects Kohn Pedersen Fox to design an 80-story skyscraper for the site, but those plans never came to fruition.
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But last week, Chetrit and Yadidi filed plans to demolish the building at 689. On the same day, they submitted documents calling for a new 68-story building on the block, with an address of 100 West 37th St.
The new tower will be mostly residential, with 300 apartments spread across nearly 300,000 square feet — plus another 86,800 square feet of commercial space. The listed architect is Damir Sehic of C3D Architecture, a firm whose other projects include residential buildings around Manhattan.
Though the documents only mention the vacant corner lot as a building site, it seems likely to include the mid-block site at 989 Sixth Ave. as well.
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