Construction has topped out on Waterside at Xchange, a 25-story residential building in Secaucus, New Jersey. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Fraternity Meadows, the structure is also known as Building G in the Xchange at Secaucus Junction complex and will yield 403 residential units and four floors of parking. The property is located on an undeveloped plot between the Hackensack River and Brianna Lane.
Recent photos show Xchange’s reinforced concrete superstructure reaching its pinnacle. Though façade installation has yet to begin, the inner walls are in place on much of the lower half. Concrete rigs were in the process of finishing up the remaining work on the roof at the time of photography.
Waterside At Xchange. Photo by Michael Young
Waterside At Xchange. Photo by Michael Young
The tower rises in an L-shaped massing from a multi-story podium that sits well above the adjacent water line of the Hackensack River. From its isolated position, the superstructure dominates the surrounding landscape and is clearly visible from the New Jersey Turnpike.
Waterside At Xchange. Photo by Michael Young
Waterside At Xchange. Photo by Michael Young
Waterside At Xchange. Photo by Michael Young
The following photos show the state of work in late June.
Waterside At Xchange. Photo by Michael Young
The rendering below is seen on the website for Xchange at Secaucus Junction and is oriented looking north. A darker cladding encloses the podium, while the main tower uses a more uniform glass surface. Shallow setbacks are positioned on either end of the building, which culminates with a flat roof parapet. A vertical stack of balconies for select homes is positioned in the center.
Waterside At Xchange. Designed by Perkins Eastman.
YIMBY expects to see the floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall to begin installation later this year, with interiors soon following suit. Those with units on the eastern side of the building will have panoramic views of the entire Manhattan skyline from the Financial District to Billionaires’ Row, as well as of Jersey City further south and Fort Lee to the north. Residents on the opposite western side of Xchange will have year-round vistas of the setting sun and of the skyline of Newark, New Jersey to the southwest.
A completion date has not been announced.
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Directions with views from work in progress, now I can see these photos show its structure. Though there are not cover on any materials, and lack of buildings built to a similar scale; because of its height so powerful: Thanks to Michael Young.
This building dominates over the area.
It really does – you can easily see it from the Turnpike. I am a little leery of that riverfront location. Didn’t they have bad flooding there in the past few large storms?
It is in a flood zone.
“All of the buildings at Xchange have been constructed several feet above projected FEMA flood elevations,” said O’Connor. “None of the earlier buildings have experienced any flood impacts in the past, even during Sandy.”
How tragic and architecturally tone deaf for this monstrosity (out of scale, on wetlands) to at least try to be contemporary and ecology conscious ; a) solar panels? b) glass!!! – all of those dead birds on a major flyway, c) zero relationship to the area – no public ame nities at all? walkways? replacement/restoration of what was destroyed? How ingenuous to say the land was ’empty’!!! Really? wildlife, pure air, water filtration, simple open space for visual relief! -hardly empty. And nothing of value for the community? school? arts center? senior housing? This is a classic example of why almost all real estate people are so loathed. Including the politicians who approved this travesty as well. What a visual, ecological, social and political disaster this construction is and will remain. Yes, we do see it as we drive – not a NJ attraction that anyone should be proud of. Shame!