Work on 250 West 55th Street is just about complete, and it looks like occupancy is imminent. Microsoft was rumored to be considering the space, but it seems as though the tower will be chiefly occupied by law firms. Eighth Avenue isn’t exactly prestigious, but the neighborhood is seeing dramatic improvements, and Hearst is also nearby – the transformation will be slow, but the area is becoming much more upscale.
250 West 55th’s appearance is definitely conditional – without the sun, it looks bleak – but, weather permitting, the building looks quite nice. The tower could even pass as a less-attractive relative to 150 Greenwich, though instead of reveling in simplicity, 250 West 55th has distracting mullions that detract from the facade.
The building’s retail component looks inviting, though it is a two-story podium – that would normally be offensive to urban aesthetics given the treatment of the street-wall, but the tower’s neighborhood used to be dominated by low-rise tenements, never achieving the pre-war verticality of locales like Chelsea and the Financial District. 250 West 55th Street was designed by SOM, and the developer is Boston Properties.
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