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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.

[NYguy]

[NYguy]

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]

Some info from the RFP...


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[NYguy]

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.

[NYguy]

Surprising, thought this was going to Extell. Still, another large housing development.


https://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/mul...g-project-on-manhattans-west-side-135375

Developers Chosen For $1B Housing Project Tied To USS Intrepid





Ethan Rothstein

One of the largest undeveloped sites in Manhattan overlooking the Hudson River is set to become a massive housing project.

Gov. Kathy Hochul selected a team of The Gotham Organization, Fisher Brothers and Mural Real Estate to build 1,127 housing units on a parking lot between West 45th and 46th Streets across the West Side Highway from the USS Intrepid and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

Dubbed Hudson Landing, the two-tower development would cost nearly $1B to construct and include an expansion for the Intrepid Museum and a new park. More than 330 units would be kept permanently affordable, and roughly 100 apartments would be offered for sale.

The 51K SF site, connected to the museum via a pedestrian bridge, was offered to developers in a request for proposals last year. It had long been used as a manufactured gas plant before being incorporated into the failed 1970s Westway plan on the West Side Highway.

That would have buried the road beneath a new Hudson River landfill, but the state built a surface boulevard instead after that project collapsed in 1985.

The land was acquired in the early 2000s by the New York Department of Transportation when it was rebuilding that boulevard, also known as Route 9A, and it's sat as a parking lot ever since.

Now it's the centerpiece of a 1.3M SF development and one of the largest parcels New York has turned over to a developer under Hochul's push to build housing on underused state land.

As part of the deal, developers must agree to use the state's 485-x tax exemption, which grants developers tax breaks in exchange for keeping at least 25% of units affordable and paying construction workers a prevailing wage. It would be one of the largest to use the program, which developers have said has pushed them to build smaller buildings because of higher wage requirements required for projects over 100 units.

It's unclear which developers Gotham and Fisher Brothers were competing against. The state didn't release the proposals during the process, although representatives from Extell Development, Gilbane Development Co., Lincoln Property Co., MAG Partners, Related Cos., RXR and Moinian Group toured the site in March 2025, a month after the RFP was released.

[The New York Lion]

How tall might this be?

[Crawford]

Crains has an image. Looks pretty tall. Two towers, hard to tell height.

[The New York Lion]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Crains has an image. Looks pretty tall. Two towers, hard to tell height.

That looks incredible. I love the curved edges.

[NYguy]

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estat...pid-museum-parking-lot-housing-20260715/

Hochul taps development team for 1,100-home project near Intrepid Museum





By Julianne Cuba
July 15, 2026

Gov. Kathy Hochul has selected the developers Gotham Organization, Fisher Brothers and Mural Real Estate Group to transform a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot near the Intrepid Museum into a mixed-use development with more than 1,100 new homes, her office announced Wednesday.

This is also going to be next door to Extell’s concert experience….

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=262429

[TonyNYC]

This is also going to be next door to Extell’s concert experience….

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=262429[/QUOTE]



Looks pretty good.. Never understood why they hadn't built up the waterfront before like Greenpoint LIC and Williamsburg.. plenty of possible lots to do so.

LETS GO!!

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by TonyNYC

Looks pretty good.. Never understood why they hadn't built up the waterfront before like Greenpoint LIC and Williamsburg.. plenty of possible lots to do so.

Bc of the stupid Clinton Special District, which was enacted in the 1980's under Mayor Koch to appease the NIMBYs when the Javits Center was planned for this neighborhood. Instead, the Javits Center was ultimately built to the south and the neighborhood still retained the super-restrictive zoning.

The Clinton Special District is a travesty. It basically blocks dense development in much of the western third of Midtown. Mamdani needs to at least allow big towers along the avenues. It's crazy to have a banal tenement neighborhood walkable to the biggest business district on the planet permanently frozen from large scale housing development, especially in the middle of a historic housing crisis.

[TonyNYC]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Bc of the stupid Clinton Special District, which was enacted in the 1980's under Mayor Koch to appease the NIMBYs when the Javits Center was planned for this neighborhood. Instead, the Javits Center was ultimately built to the south and the neighborhood still retained the super-restrictive zoning.

The Clinton Special District is a travesty. It basically blocks dense development in much of the western third of Midtown. Mamdani needs to at least allow big towers along the avenues. It's crazy to have a banal tenement neighborhood walkable to the biggest business district on the planet permanently frozen from large scale housing development, especially in the middle of a historic housing crisis.

Yep they'll cry out loud about the need for more affordable housing but will be the first ones fighting to keep development from their areas..

Worked at UPS on 11th and 43rd while I was in College back in the early 90's.. the area has had some development since but def not upsized enough.. I guess they want to keep Hells Kitchen a quaint dump as much as possible.

Makes no sense. Rezone it.. it's location is prime!

[Zapatan]

Nice towers, probably around 500' for the small one and 650+ for the taller one.

Reminds me a bit of Rincon Hill in San Francisco although it seems they're connected when you look closely.

[NYguy]

Another look…

[ChiND]

This looks AMAZING! I had always hoped that the Intrepid could put an exhibition hall on that site, though this is better.

That huge UPS site must go!

[NYguy]

It’s one of the better looking of the large housing proposals. They’re usually clunky looking.



https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...rm-underutilized-hells-kitchen-site-near

Governor Hochul Unveils Winning Proposal to Transform Underutilized Hell's Kitchen Site Near Intrepid Museum into Vibrant Mixed-Use Development With More Than 1,100 New Homes


July 15, 2026

proposal to redevelop 621 West 45th Street, a State-owned parcel in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan currently used as the surface parking lot for the Intrepid Museum. The proposal — from a development team led by The Gotham Organization, Fisher Brothers, and MURAL Real Estate Group — would transform one of the largest undeveloped parcels on Manhattan's far West Side into 1,127 new homes, expand the Intrepid Museum's public campus and strengthens the neighborhood's existing waterfront assets with new publicly accessible open space.

“The far West Side of Manhattan has a storied history as a vibrant, inclusive community, and this proposal will carry that legacy forward by building for a more affordable future,” Governor Hochul said. “By transforming a State-owned parking lot into more than 1,100 new homes — with hundreds of permanently affordable units and homeownership opportunities — we are taking direct aim at the housing shortage while strengthening one of New York's great cultural institutions. This is what's possible when we put State land to work for the people of New York.”

The proposal calls for two connected towers and a total of 1,127 homes serving a broad range of New Yorkers. 338 of those homes — 30 percent of all units — would be affordable, serving individuals and families earning between 40 and 130 percent of Area Median Income. The proposal also includes a significant share of middle-income housing affordable to teachers, nurses and first responders, along with a for-sale condominium component that includes income-restricted ownership units.

The development would also deliver new neighborhood retail space and replacement parking for the Intrepid Museum, fully phased so that Museum parking remains uninterrupted throughout construction.

Beyond housing, the project would extend the Intrepid Museum's public presence eastward across the West Side Highway through a new Intrepid Concourse — a roughly 22,000-square-foot community facility for the Museum that includes a new visitor's center, a STEM education hub and a café. The proposal also creates Intrepid Park, an approximately 9,800-square-foot public open space connected to the Museum's sky bridge, offering landscaped space for programming, events and Hudson River views for residents and visitors alike.

[NYguy]

Closer look...





























From this view, The ABBA Voyage theater will front...