NEW YORK | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[Hypothalamus]

A new hotel will rise here:
- 180-room boutique hotel
- Roughly 70,000 square feet
- Permits

Current Progress:
Posted January 18th, 2014...
Photo Credit: Derek2k3 @ WNY


©Derek2k3

[Hypothalamus]

Hotel almost done on this site...

As of January January 19th, 2014...
Photo Credit: antinimby


©antinimby

[Hypothalamus]

January 22, 2014 Update:

NEW YORK | 151-161 East 86th St | FT | 21 FLOORS

[Hypothalamus]

Is New Construction Next For This Brooklyn Heights Eyesore?
Tuesday, January 21, 2014, by Jessica Dailey


[153 Remsen Street at left, 155 and 157 Remsen at right. Photos via PropertyShark]

Changes are afoot at three prime Brooklyn Heights properties. The Brooklyn Eagle spotted Department of Buildings permits for a sidewalk shed at 153 Remsen Street, which means that demolition will likely come next. No demolition permits have been filed, but knowledge of the city's sidewalk shed laws lead the Eagle to believe that the derelict property will be torn down by owner Quinlan Development Group: "The city requires the installation of sidewalk sheds when a building more than 25 feet high is demolished or a building more than 40 feet high is constructed," writes the Eagle. "Two-story 153 Remsen is 29 feet tall." Quinlan also owns 155 and 157 Remsen Street, both of which will also be getting sidewalk sheds. Quinlan was mum on its plans, but tenants at 155 and 157 recently vacated their properties, leaving the sites ready for redevelopment. Currently, Quinlan is currently constructing a rental building at 267 Pacific Street, and they launched a new Soho condo project last fall, so we're betting Remsen Street will see new residential development, too.

The site is blocks away from the water-- the views would be awesome.

More info:

Brooklyn Eagle
By Lore Croghan

It's part of a three-building site with a combined 73,600 square feet of developable space, as the Brooklyn Eagle previously reported.

Neighborhood residents have been waiting to see what happens next at the sad-sack commercial property – which along with the other two buildings in the development site has unused air rights and is outside the neighborhood's two landmark districts.

[Hypothalamus]

More stories, maybe apartments for The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel
January 22, 2014


Photo: CoStar Group

Are apartments coming to The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel?

The 790 Seventh Avenue hotel, between West 51st and West 52nd streets, will be expanding vertically, according to a plan exam application filed today.

The proposal would add 23 stories to the existing 23-story building. The Schedule A filing indicates that the new levels would be occupied by apartments — 121 total. Morris Adjmi Architects is the architect of record for the expansion.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts sold the 665-key hotel in 2012 for $275 million in cash, the New York Observer reported. The buyers were affiliates of Rockpoint Group, Goldman Sachs’ Real Estate Principal Investment Area and Highgate Holdings. Under the deal, Highgate would operate the hotel.

Starwood announced in April 2013 that it plans to sell $2 billion to $3 billion of hotels in two to three years, Bloomberg reported. The company, based in Stamford, Connecticut, owns the St. Regis, Sheraton and Westin brands.

[Submariner]

I was down at the WTC site today and noticed that there is a shed surrounding Liberty Plaza and it appears as if they are doing work to the facade. Does anyone know anything about this?

[Hypothalamus]

$350M mixed-use Bronx project to break
Compass Residences will be the borough's largest private real estate project ever
Julie Strickland January 22, 2014 04:20PM


Rendering of Compass Residences

A new ten-building residential development in Crotona Park East in the Bronx — the largest private real estate project in the borough to date – kicks off construction Thursday.

The Compass Residences, a 1,300-unit affordable housing development on the corner of 172nd Street and Boone Avenue, is being developed by a group that includes Signature Urban Properties, GTIS Partners, MBD Housing and Monadnock Construction, according to a release from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The first phase, which kicks off Thursday, will create 237 units of affordable apartments on the industrial site. The entire project should be finished by 2019.

The project is rising in an area that is currently made of derelict warehouses, according to previous reports. Rezoned from industrial to mixed use in 2011, the area now permits buildings up to 15 stories.

The estimated total cost for the site, which will also contain 46,000 square feet of retail space, is estimated to be around $350 million.

[Busy Bee]

^Awesome! Keep em coming. The Bronx could absorb hundreds of these type developments by targeting underutilized sites like this one. And boy they sure didn't chicken out on density.

[chris08876]

Hmm interesting. Compass Residences and La Central project, Bronx has two very large projects. Great! Thats 15 high rises to add to the Bronx collection.

[Hypothalamus]

I'd expect more to follow in the Bronx as De Blasio is a huge advocate for affordable housing across the board (no pun intended).

[Hypothalamus]

Another hotel to add to the mix-- nothing worth a separate thread though.

Permits:

Occupancy Classification: R-1 - RESIDENTIAL: HOTELS, DORMITORIES
Building Height (ft.): 309
Building Stories: 30
Dwelling Units: 364


Derek2k3 via GMAPS

It's right next to...
NEW YORK | 101 West 28th St | 296 FT | 28 FLOORS

...if need be, we can always try and follow this on 101's thread. (?)

[Perklol]

Is the office building in Astor place somewhere in this thread?

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

...if need be, we can always try and follow this on 101's thread. (?)

Yep both are very close to one another so I think it's okay

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 34 East 51st Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON JANUARY 28TH 2014 AT 6:00 AM

On-site renderings have been posted for the SOM-designed 34 East 51st Street, which will stand 21 floors and 295 feet. The project’s developer is Sedesco, and the building will add nearly 60,000 square feet of office space to Midtown East.

Size limitations leave little room for creativity, as the lot is only 50 feet wide; given the small scope, the design is more than satisfactory. As the building tapers, part of the street-wall retreats, adding a sense of depth to the facade, and the contrast with the stark angles of neighboring boxy towers will be beneficial to the block’s aesthetics.

Since the last update from two weeks ago – when the only design documents available were drawings — the tower has progressed above ground level, and already stands two stories tall. A rapid pace of construction seems to be common amongst SOM’s projects, and the firm’s 250 West 55th Street — another office tower — was completed well ahead of schedule.

Whether construction is similarly quick at 34 East 51st Street remains to be seen, but the tentative completion date is January of 2015.

[Design-mind]

Originally Posted by tubeworm

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 34 East 51st Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON JANUARY 28TH 2014 AT 6:00 AM

The massing reminds me a lot of 35XV (31 West 15th St.). I love these type of mid-rise condos.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Design-mind

I love these type of mid-rise condos.

It's an office building.

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Revealed: 538 West 58th Street
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON FEBRUARY 3RD 2014 AT 6:00 AM


538 West 58th Street -- photo by Andrew McKeon

Another site on the far West Side is moving along; permits indicate 538 West 58th Street will soon become an 18-story hotel with 230 rooms, measuring 62,544 square feet. The architect of record is Gene Kaufman, and the developer is Barone Management. Sam Chang is also involved, and the project has apparently been upsized since last year, when it was originally slated to have 208 rooms.

Renderings have been posted on the perimeter fencing, and the project looks fairly typical for a Chang & Kaufman collaboration. The scope of 538 West 58th Street is more impressive than their average project, and the lot’s width is 100 feet; the configuration will result in two seemingly separate components, staggered back from the street-wall at different lengths.
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Demolition permits for the old 530 West 38th Street were approved in November of 2013, and the structures is now coming down; while foundation work has yet to begin, work is expected to be completed in May of 2015.

Demolition at 532 West 58th Street — photo by Andrew McKeon


538 West 58th Street — photo by Andrew McKeon


Zoning Diagram

[Hypothalamus]

Court Square rental tower on Purves Street releases rendering
Hiten Samtani February 03, 2014 09:45AM


From left: A rendering of the project at 44-35 Purves Street in Court Square and the construction site

A rendering has been released for a large new tower in Queens’ Court Square neighborhood. The 22-story building at 44-35 and 44-51 Purves Street will hold 122 units.

Construction at the building, between Northern and Thompson boulevards, is slated to be finished in 2017.

The owners, listed only as “Purvis Holdings LLC,” paid the Criterion Group $32.2 million for the site in 2013, according to Court Square blog.
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[Hypothalamus]

Development refresh for Lincoln Property’s 12-18 West 55th Street?
FEBRUARY 4, 2014


Image: GMAP

What’s going on at 12-18 West 55th Street? The site between Fifth and Sixth avenues has lain fallow for several years, but a new 22-story mixed-use development could rise there, based on permits filed early last year.

The 245-foot-tall building would have 55 apartments, with Goldstein, Hill & West as the architect of record, according to the plan exam application from January 2013. The developer is Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company, which originally planned a hotel-condo tower at the site in 2006.

The project, which will sprout from several parcels, could have 7,532 square feet of commercial space on the first and second floors. Residents will have storage and a recreation room on the seventh floor. The plan was disapproved in February 2013, so this is all speculation.

Lincoln Property acquired the site in 2005, according to public records. The following year, the developer announced its plans for a condo-hotel, using air rights from a landmarked townhouse at 9 West 54th Street, the New York Post reported.

In November 2009, JD Carlisle Development bought 9 West 54th for $29 million, and in January 2010, the Midtown South firm paid $6 million for 10 West 55th street, according to The Real Deal. Both properties border 12-18 West 55th.

[Hypothalamus]

New York YIMBY:

Demolition Imminent: 1711 First Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON FEBRUARY 5TH 2014 AT 1:00 PM


1711 and 1713 First Avenue -- image from Google Maps

Demolition permits have been filed for the existing structure at 1711 First Avenue, signaling the end to a saga that began in 2009, when initial plans for a tower were filed. Minuit Partners acquired the site for $8.5 million back in 2011, and after a lawsuit against the old owners, apparently things are back on track.

Though there have been no recent permits for the building, the 2009 filings revealed a 21-story and 46-unit residential tower. The architect of record was Daniel Goldner, but the old plans are likely dead. The new developer is Anbau Enterprises, which seems to lean towards historically-minded designs; Goldner’s work is decidedly contemporary.

The Schedule A from the original proposal indicated that the project would cater to the boutique luxury segment of the market; floors three through ten were to have three units each, and floors 11 through 21 were to have two residences per level. Additionally, the ground floor was to have slightly over 3,000 square feet of retail space.

With development rights of over 70,000 square feet, the future tower could definitely go taller, though the previous plans stretched the air rights quite efficiently. Any additional height would likely require most units to be full-floor, and it seems unlikely that the surrounding neighborhood would warrant ultra-luxury construction.

The assemblage also includes 1713 First Avenue, and 354 East 89th Street; permits for the former’s demolition have also been filed.