NEW YORK | 1150 6th Ave | FT | 38 FLOORS

[antinimby]

^ Government only really responds to complaints and you know the only people that will take the time to complain to their representatives are people that are against something, which in most cases is a development they are threatened by its imposing height or size.

These eyesore hotels are generally not very big or tall so no one complains about them. That's why the Tower Verre's of the world, with their size and prominence will always attract the attention of the haters.

[chris08876]

We have a height mods!

Also note the change from 38 floors to 41 floors.

NEW YORK | 1150 6th Avenue | 426 FT | 41 FLOORS

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1150 Sixth Avenue: Midtown Hotel Designed by Ismael Leyva Gets New Design

The 100-year-old Pan American Magazine Building at 1150 Avenue of Americas is now a distant memory, and to take its place will be a 41-floor, 5-star hotel developed by Fortuna Realty Group. Led by Morris Moinian (brother of prolific developer Joseph Moinian), Fortuna purchased the Midtown development site in 2011 for $39 million, and only began the work of demolishing the 8-story loft building last year.

Now-approved construction permits were filed by the high-rise gurus of Ismael Leyva Architects (ILA). They call for a 426-foot-tall tower with 310 hotel suites inside. The construction square footage has grown a bit since permits were first submitted in 2015. It is now 195,807 square feet — up from 162,000. Additionally, a newly-published rendering on ILA's website shows the design has been revised from a Post-Modern, Park Lane Hotel-like appearance to a subdued glass skin with diamond motifs at its base and lot-line walls. ILA's page knights the inn the Kingsley Hotel. There will be an average of 10 rooms per floor on levels 6 through 37, a lounge, restaurant and ballroom at the base; and a rooftop bar and outdoor terrace on the 38th floor.

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City Realty

[Dac150]

Ah ok, was wondering about that gap. Decent infill I guess.

[Prezrezc]

Perhaps it'll be decent at street-level at least. The construction materials looking anything better than the render portrays will answer that.

I'm not one to be a "box bitcher"; but this makes me repent of that somewhat.

I mean, could he have done more on the vertical aspect? Is there a limit on this stretch of AotA's?

[Busy Bee]

The height is fine. My bitchy gripe remains the same... another ugly setback which exposes the unfinished side walls of the neighboring buildings that will probably never be addressed. They are ugly and the code should take this epidemic into consideration. Even the render artist knows it sucks because they photoshop'd in a cornice that wraps around the corner as if the inside facade is finshed like the front. In reality the short building has no such cornice wrapping around the corner and the glass building next door has a huge blank wall facing the lot. It sucks.

[chris08876]

Developer Morris Monian scraps plan for luxury hotel at 1150 Sixth Ave.

Developer Morris Moinian has checked out of a longstanding plan to build a luxury hotel at 1150 Sixth Ave. at a time when the city’s room-surplus problem only continues to worsen.

Moinian’s Fortuna Realty tapped a JLL team led by Bob Knakal to sell the midblock site, now an empty lot, on the avenue’s east side between West 44th and 45th streets. It was a surprise, as Moinian, who filed plans for the project five years ago, told us in October that he was almost ready to build.

Knakal called it a “great development site with approved plans to build a hotel there which a new owner could use or not.”

He said Fortuna is hoping for a sale “in the mid-$90 millions or north of $600 per square foot.” Several offers have already come in, he said. Moinian bought the site in 2012 for $39 million.

Knakal said that zoning allows a number of possible uses at the location, including a “combo hotel-retail project or a boutique office building.”

Sixth Avenue is on a roll from 34th Street to Central Park South, with the lowest office vacancy rate of any major commercial corridor and several new hotels, stores and showrooms either open or soon to come.

Moinian’s planned hotel, designed by Ismael Leyva, was to rise 26 stories or 426 feet and have 310 suites, as well as a restaurant, ballroom, rooftop bar and terrace. Plans were approved by the Department of Buildings four years ago.

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https://nypost.com/2020/03/16/develo...150-sixth-ave/

[PhyllisJerry2]

Honestly, good riddance. These setback hotels are an embarrassment to the city.