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[Mulan]

Per abot Yimby

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estat...-use-project-intrepid-museum-parking-lot

The governor announced a request for proposals Friday morning to build a mixed-use project at 621 W. 45th St., a roughly 51,000 square-foot parcel along 12th Avenue near the Intrepid Museum and Hudson River waterfront. At least 25% of the residential units would need to be affordable housing, and the project should include commercial and community space as well.

The request is extremely broad overall and should provide interested developers with a large amount of flexibility around building plans. It does not specify what the ideal height, size or number of residential units would be, apart from saying that 18 is the maximum floor-area ratio, a measure that determines how dense a building can be. Everything else will be based on individual submissions and designs, according to the Hochul administration.

Projects must also preserve the parking and pedestrian bridge access rights the Intrepid Museum has on the site. The parking agreement permits the museum to use a maximum of 14 bus-size spots for school trips and other tours and special events.

[NYguy]

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/02/hochul-intrepid-museum-parking-lot-development/

Gov. Kathy Hochul Wants Developers to Build Housing on Intrepid Museum Parking Lot


By Amanda Schiavo
February 28, 2025

Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced a plan to turn a 50,584-square-foot parking lot used by the Intrepid Museum into a residential development, part of the state’s efforts to address New York City’s ongoing housing crisis.

Hochul has made redeveloping state-owned land a key part of her administration’s mission to provide city residents with more affordable housing.

“Gov. Hochul’s 2025 budget is making historic inroads in our push to make New York more affordable and included a proposal to build up to 15,000 new homes on state-owned land,” RuthAnne Visnauskas, commissioner of the New York State Homes and Community Renewal, said in a statement.

The state-owned parcel at ​​621 West 45th Street runs along the east blockfront of 12th Avenue between West 45th and West 46th streets. The area is one of the largest undeveloped pieces of land in Manhattan, according to Hochul’s office.

“By transforming this underutilized state-owned property into a dynamic mixed-use development with a significant affordable housing component, we’re taking aim at low housing supply in a high-demand area and building a stronger community for residents in Hell’s Kitchen and beyond,” Hochul said in a statement.

The governor has issued a request for proposals, calling out to developers who could transform the parking lot at ​​621 West 45th Street through “innovative redevelopment.”

Developers are required to submit a proposal — by May 15 — that ensures 25 percent of the housing units will be affordable and creates a mix of residential and commercial spaces that will benefit the community. It did provide a target for how large the development should be.

The project must also preserve parking for Intrepid visitors and keep the pedestrian bridge that leads to the museum, housed within a decommissioned World War II aircraft carrier docked near 46th Street along the Hudson River.

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https://w42st.com/post/intrepid-museum-parking-lot-targeted-for-housing-proposals-sought/

Intrepid Museum Parking Lot Targeted for Housing — Proposals Sought





by Phil O'Brien
February 28, 2025

The state-owned parcel, encompassing over 50,500 square feet on the West Side Highway between W45th and W46th Streets, represents one of the largest undeveloped tracts on Manhattan’s far West Side. The initiative is part of Governor Hochul’s broader strategy to repurpose underutilized state properties to mitigate New York’s housing crisis.

Governor Hochul emphasized the project’s potential to fortify the community’s legacy, stating, “The West Side of Manhattan has a storied history as a vibrant, inclusive community, and I’m committed to strengthening that legacy by building for a more affordable future.”

Local Congressman Jerry Nadler commented on the project’s significance, expressing enthusiasm for its potential community impact. “It is no secret that New Yorkers are facing a housing crisis, and the transformation of a state-owned surface level parking lot on 12th Avenue across from the Intrepid into a mix of residential and commercial development with at least 25% affordable is a win for the entire City. This Hell’s Kitchen property is one of the largest undeveloped parcels on the far west side and its transformation will create a vibrant mixed-use development while also ensuring that the Intrepid retains its needed parking and access for them and the community to the Hudson River Park with pedestrian bridge access,” said Nadler.

Alongside the redevelopment of the Intrepid Museum’s parking lot, another significant project is set to rise on a state-owned parcel at “Site K” at 418 11th Avenue. This $1.35 billion initiative will feature two high-rise towers providing nearly 1,400 new homes, with a notable portion dedicated to affordable housing. Additionally, the development will host the country’s first Climate Museum.

[NYguy]

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https://www.chelseanewsny.com/news/from-...parking-for-12th-avenue-parcel-DJ4308858

From Gas Tanks to Tower: Hochul Plans Housing, Intrepid Parking for 12th Avenue Parcel
The state-owned property on the far West Side is being put out for bid to develop mixed-used towers with at least 25 percent affordable housing in the mix.





Ralph Spielman
08 Mar 2025

The parcel that is going to be redeveloped is encompassed by a 50,000-plus-square-foot space between West 45th and 46th streets on the east side of Twelfth Avenue, currently a run-down asphalt lot used as a bus and employee parking lot for the Intrepid Museum. An overpass that was built in 2002 will remain in place, allowing people to reach the Intrepid, the legendary aircraft carrier, on the west side of Twelfth Avenue.

Like any Manhattanite, the land has had a long history. An unoccupied space in the 1830s, 20 years later there were a number of structures, including a large building along the south side of West 46th Street. By 1877, part of the space had become a gas manufacturing plant, lasting until 1913. From the early 1930s, the space held what grew to be a 286-foot-high behemoth of a gas storage tank, 192 feet in diameter and capable of holding 7 million gallons of gas by 1962, until it was torn down in the late 1960s.

The vacant land then became a ConEd storage lot and natural-gas distribution point until the neighboring Intrepid Museum was given the space in 2000 to establish a parking lot. At that time, the land was ceded by Consolidated Edison to the New York State Department of Transportation, under eminent domain. NY State, in turn, let the Museum use it for parking in a 2002 agreement.

Requirements for the Request for Proposals from interested developers require two separate requests: one including 25 percent affordable housing, the other 30 percent; in addition, each must include 20 percent of those for multi-bedroom spaces.

And the Intrepid’s parking? The proposals must include space for an employee and 14-vehicle bus parking lot using the existing pedestrian bridge connection from the new building over Twelfth Avenue to the museum. With an eye toward the future, in 2016, NY State’s Department of Environmental Conservation, partnering with Con Edison, looked at a Remedial Action Work Plan aiming to limit exposure from century-old contaminants. Field investigations, done 10 years before, found soil and coal tar both contaminated, 16 to 30 feet beneath the surface. Previous studies, done in the late 1990s, revealed chemical compounds and PCBs.

And what is required of the successful developer? They are on their own as far as independent research and all investigations. First, an environmental review of the site must be conducted. Costs, taxes, title, survey, development, encumbrances, financing, construction, and remediation are all on the developer to pay for.

[NYguy]

A look at interested bidders who toures the site. It wouldn’t surprise me if Extell was the developer, in conjunction with it’s neighboring development.