A new hotel in Fresh Meadows is positioning itself to be the 21st-century Ellis Island of Queens.
The hotel will serve as a stepping stone for Chinese immigrants and students looking to stay in the country or study here, according to several people close to the planning. The 11-story Hilton hotel on 186th Street is set to open in May 2016 and the developers, Mayflower Business Group of Great Neck, are positioning their hotel to serve a mixture of Chinese businesspeople, students and immigrants who can use the hotel as a base while house hunting.
“There’s something happening with the Asian community and, specifically, something happening in China. There’s something going on,” said George Frangoulis, a spokesman for the developer. “They’re bringing in a lot of wealth. They’re enhancing and stimulating the Queens economy. It’s good for America.”
The announcement of the hotel stirred controversy in 2014. Residents complained that the 11-story building is too tall for a neighborhood of mostly one- and two-family homes. They also said that the hotel would cause traffic on local streets and overload the sewer system. But the hotel does not violate any building or zoning codes, which left residents unable to block the project from going forward.
Queens Gazette also has big news on the Astoria C-Town at 29-10 Broadway. The grocery store will be closing so the owners can build out a five-story, 60,000-square-foot development with 64 apartments, two ground floor retail spaces and underground parking. Six of the apartment units will include outdoor spaces. According to the Gazette, “Real estate sources said a brand new, expanded C-Town Supermarket would close its doors during construction and will reopen at the site as soon as possible.” There’s no timeline yet on those closure dates.
Reminiscent of early Brooklyn’s wood frame row houses, 139 Meserole is a modern adaptation of early Williamsburg. With an exterior designed with a zinc shingle facade and reclaimed cedar sun shades, the interior boasts thoughtful finishes and details though-out – including live sawn white oak planks, recycled subway tiles, honed Calcutta marble, and a living green, landscaped building canopy.
The six-story building will have eight apartments spread across just over 10,000 square feet of net residential space, with one unit and one parking space on the ground floor (which we don’t see in the rendering), two on floors two through four, and then a pair of duplexes occupying the fifth and sixth floors.
Will follow the same frequent updates that this mid rise thread has, with little to no duplicates and the information easily available. Titles for every project too.
The current nyc highrise thread is in shambles, and we need a new one.
The housing-design experts at Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP) have hashed out a feasibility study to redevelop the Revere Sugar Factory site in Red Hook with a 1.7 million-square-foot development to include more than 900 apartments, 250,000 square feet of retail, and 400,000 square feet of parking. The six-acre site at 280 Richards Street is owned by the Joesph Sitt-led, Thor Equities, who purchased the parcel back in 2005 to the tune of $40 million, according to the New York Observer.
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MAP’s 1.7 million-square-foot vision provides a multi-level retail complex flanked by six residential buildings that surround a landscaped, elevated roof deck. According to the project’s webpage, “The retail space component of the project could be filled with a combination of big-box and local stores. A residential tower will rise an additional six stories above the base for a total of 12 stories and 900 units. A mix of both affordable and market-rate units are proposed.”
Once things get rolling, the developer plans to carve the six-story, 225,000-square-foot property into 70 apartments, Buildings Department filings indicate. There will be 44 parking spaces and 39,457 square feet of commercial space.
The apartments – with 12-to-16-foot ceilings – will be marketed to artists and creative types, with asking prices starting at about $500,000, according to published reports.
An Est4te Four LLC closed on the $25.1 million purchase of the 1911-vintage building in December 2012, city Finance Department records show – despite the beating the waterfront neighborhood had just taken from flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Here now, from the developers who "discovered" Red Hook, the first listings for the gentrifying neighborhood's new, expensive condos. Est4te Four is currently converting a century-old warehouse at 160 Imlay Street into 70 condos, for which prices currently start at $1,284,075 for a 1,317-square-foot one-bedroom. The most expensive apartment on the market—not only in the building, but also in the whole neighborhood—is a 3BR/3.5BA asking $2,858,000.
The primary mass of the building is six‐stories tall and a little over a 150 feet long, and is clad in a lightweight cement board rain screen. Exposed fasteners, a dynamic rhythm of window openings, and dashes of color form a counterpoint to the crisp rigor of the skin.
Rendering for: 104 West End Avenue
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“The design of the building reflects the ocean character [of] the surrounding environment,” writes Sheepshead Bay-based architect Zproekt, “while projecting the area into the future.” They’ve also taken into account the potential for flooding, with the at-grade commercial spaces protected against damage and the residential uses higher up, safe from rising waters.
The 48 apartments will be spread over a bit more than 66,000 square feet of residential space, for a large average unit size of 1,375 square feet, with a number of duplex condos. They’ll sit atop 9,500 square feet of commercial space, and nearly 1,000 square feet of community facility space.
104 West End Avenue will have 76 car parking spaces in a bilevel garage (or 71, if you believe the Schedule A rather than the main application). This is far more than required by zoning, which is rare, but apparently necessary on this site due to the relative wealth of the likely condo buyers and the distance to mass transit and Manhattan.
Myrtle Avenue — an 8-mile corridor that cuts through multiple neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens — is slated to add close to 1,200 residential units in the coming years, divided across roughly 10 new projects, according to an estimate by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership. The wave of new development — including projects from the likes of John Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Group and Madison Realty Capital — will also add more than 50,000 square feet of retail space.
New retail is what the area desperately needs, according to Meredith Phillips Almeida, the executive director of the Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District.
While there are a number of businesses in the area already, she said, residents want more food establishments, apparel stores and services such as gyms and laundromats. The BID is also working on a new, 25,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza in the area. An Associated supermarket will open in Madison Realty Capital’s 504 Myrtle Avenue — the location of the former Pratt Station Post Office and one of two Madison-developed rental buildings. Madison, which also just bought a $45 million office building at nearby 93 Ryerson Street, close to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is particularly interested in the area, according to the firm’s co-founder Josh Zegen. Red Apple is yet to sign a retail tenant at its project, but interest has been strong, according to Catsimatidis.
Four buildings by Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Group
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Red Apple developed the Andrea at 218 Myrtle Avenue, the first of four buildings across from MetroTech Center, which will include residential units as well as a community supermarket. Dattner Architects designed the 95-unit building. Catsimatidis is building three other buildings, at 81 Fleet Place, 86 Fleet Place and 180 Myrtle Avenue.
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All Year Management is developing a 45-unit building at this location, which used to house a Gulf gas station. ODA Architecture’s Eran Chen is designing the project, which will have roughly 41,000 square feet of residential space.
490 and 504 Myrtle Avenue
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Madison Realty Capital is bringing more than 200 units to the area. Madison is planning to complete 490 Myrtle Avenue in the next couple of months and launch rentals there. The developer is also building a new tower at the site of the former Pratt Station Post Office at 504 Myrtle Avenue.
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This is the former location of Myrtle Car and will house a seven-story mixed use building with 22 units. Manhasset Homes is the developer.
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Greystone is bringing a five-story mixed-use residential building to this former White Castle site. The building will include 27 luxury apartments as well as 6,000 square feet of retail space.
Its all good. Thanks for the contributions. Also, we have a new highrise thread for nyc so feel to post as much as you want. All the highrise sets are finished for 2014-15 and we need to document and compile any new updates.
East Williamsburg is finally getting a few interesting buildings, between this small one and the HWKN-designed Yotel just down the street. At 630 Lorimer Street, ODA Architecture has replaced Gerald Caliendo as the architect of record, and we found this rendering attached to the fence.
It doesn’t look like ODA’s work, but it doesn’t look like the usual small ‘Burg building either. We see large, multi-paned windows, a green wall, and balconies hidden behind a masonry (concrete?) screen covering the front of the building.
Permits call for four stories and eight units. Inside, it looks like the foundation is under construction, though we couldn’t get a good look. (The photo after the jump shows only a fraction of the site.) The sign on the fence said construction should wrap in December 2015.
Project: 42-77 Hunter Street (Recently completed, goes condo to rental)
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Initial reports suggested that units at the Madison in Long Island City, a new condominium development, were selling like hotcakes. Nevertheless, the building is now going rental. Pre-construction sales launched at the 14-unit building last summer, and roughly 50 percent of the units quickly went into contract. At the time, pricing for the one- and two-bedroom “penthouse” units started at $500,000, according to Brownstoner. But the owners, who occupy at least one unit in the building located at 42-77 Hunter Street, have decided to hang on to their debut project, and refund the buyers. Now it’s going rental, according to Brownstoner. Modern Spaces recently listed two units on the rental market for $2,750 and $2,773 a month. “It was the sponsors’ first project and they had a lot pride in it,” Modern Spaces CEO Eric Benaim told The Real Deal. “They felt that if they sold the condos they wouldn’t really own it anymore.” Benaim added that land prices have increased so much in the area, that even if the developers sold all the units, they wouldn’t make enough to buy another site.
Western Heritable Investment Company, Caspi Development and Barone Management are planning a 90- to 100-room hotel at 456 Greenwich Street in Tribeca, Commercial Observer has learned.
The eight-story, 93,900-square-foot hotel will have 90 to 100 guestrooms and suites, a restaurant with a bar, a 1,500-square-foot interior courtyard, a spa, a swimming pool, meeting space and a screening room, according to JLL, whose hotels and hospitality group was tapped to lead advisory efforts at the site. Plans may also include a private member club.
Today Ariel Property Advisors announced the sale of two properties in Astoria and Jamaica for a total of $4.8 million. Let’s start with Astoria first, since the neighborhood has quite a lot of development to keep track of. The property in question is located at 14-23 Broadway, between 14th Street and 21st Street. The 25 by 136-foot vacant lot sold for $1.95 million, and Ariel reports that the buyer plans to build residential. Going over old DOB documents, it looks like they are trying to work off of old plans to build an eight-story, 15-unit development that previously fell through.
Moving on to Jamaica, 175-42 Hillside Avenue between Edgerton Boulevard and 175th Street sold for $2.85 million. A massive development could rise at this site, which now holds a 2,054-square-foot KFC outpost. The 100 by 100-foot lot offers a grand total of 40,000 buildable square feet.
Windows are in and the facade bricked up on all but the topmost portion of 535 Classon Avenue, about half a block from Fulton Street. The five-story building will have 38 units spread over 26,000 square feet. That works out to an average of 684 square feet per unit. The developer is Kahen Properties, and the applicant of record is engineer Shahriar Afshari of Roslyn, N.Y., according to permits.
Thread Update: Relating to floor count and distinction between mid and high rise.
1) Been doing some research, and I've noticed many 12 floor structures are really high rises in the grand scheme of thing. This is due to the increased floor heights over the years, and mechanical. For sake of classifying them
A) 12 floors or greater, and/or 120 ft or greater go in highrise compilation.
B) 1-11 floors go in midrise and lowrise compilation.
Usually sources such as Emporis, and CTBUH also list 12 floors as the minimum for a highrise, so to keep with the trend, thats how they will be classified in terms of the content of the thread.
2) Made a slight update to the front page with the new guidelines.
In February, Ekstein Development put up a rendering at their project 25-19 43rd Avenue, and at the time, we said that the start of the project appeared imminent.1 Well, that came to fruition earlier this week. When we were walking by the project yesterday, we noticed that construction crews began excavation on the site, as seen in the photo below.
The permit calls for 68,145 square feet of residential space, with will span nine floors and 86 units.2 The zoning is for a FAR of 5.00.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will spend $140 million in private funds to build an outpatient treatment and research facility adjacent to the Nassau Coliseum, County Executive Edward Mangano said.
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Good to see these piers/harbor spots being used for residential.
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