The public review process is scheduled to begin next month for 350 Park Avenue, a nearly 1,600-foot-tall office skyscraper in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by Foster + Partners and developed by Vornado Realty Trust, Rudin, and Ken Griffin, the 62-story supertall will yield 1.8 million square feet of Class A office space with a capacity of 6,000 employees. Griffin’s companies Citadel and Citadel Securities will serve as anchor tenants, occupying at least 850,000 square feet. The property is located between East 51st and 52nd Streets.
The developers filed a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) application last week, officially kickstarting the long-anticipated project, which was first unveiled in 2019. The skyscraper will join the nearby JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue as a beneficiary of the Greater East Midtown rezoning plan.
“We are excited to move forward with the development of an iconic tower that will provide world-class office space for our colleagues and reshape both Park Avenue and the Manhattan skyline for decades to come,” a Citadel spokesperson said in a statement.
The development will feature a public concourse designed by Field Operations featuring landscaped open space, water features, and seating. The plaza will sit outside the building’s ground-floor food and beverage tenants and will open sight lines to nearby landmarks, such as St. Bart’s Church, the Seagram Building, and the Racquet and Tennis Club. The concourse will also complement the city’s planned improvements for Park Avenue in East Midtown, which include the addition of greenery, public seating, concessions, and safer pedestrian crossings on Park Avenue between East 46th and 57th streets.
The new rendering of the skyscraper in the main photo showcases some minor alterations from previous illustrations of the sleek glass-clad structure. These include the addition of raised planters in the plaza and decorative pools between the columns of the base, as well as subtle changes to the signature stepped crown. In the new image, the thin vertical louvers are absent from the broad eastern faces of the final three tiers, and instead are shown on the narrow northern elevation.
Below are additional exterior renderings of the project from our last update, including a dusk view of the previous iteration and a street-level perspective looking south at the base.
Rendering of 350 Park Avenue, via nyc.gov
350 Park Avenue. Rendering courtesy of Foster + Partners.
350 Park Avenue’s construction will utilize $150 million of air rights purchased from St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Saint Bart’s Church, and contribute more than $35 million from the city’s East Midtown Public Realm Improvement Fund.
Earlier this year, Citadel leased 504,000 square feet of Class A office space across 20 floors at Brookfield Properties’ 39-story 660 Fifth Avenue, which recently underwent a $400 million renovation. The company plans to occupy this space until 350 Park Avenue is completed.
The ULURP process is planned to begin in March and conclude by the end of 2025. The development team is targeting a completion date of 2032.
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Supertall seems the way to go-Plenty of construction jobs-
Except that Mango Mussolini’s tariffs will escalate the cost of construction to an extent that may render the project unbuildable.
Mussolini: Italy. Died 1945. Try again.
The Guy said Mango Mussolini. It would help if you read the sentence correctly. Try again.
What tarrifs? I don’t see any tariffs on construction material! Read the news.
There are tariffs on wood, steel,
There are no tariffs on Mexico or Canada at this time. China has a 10% tariff, which is only for electronics.
Life comes at you fast
This will replace a 30-story building erected in 1960 by Emery Roth & Sons.
Would appreciate a view of the western facade. Is it a blank wall? If so, that’s a dreadful eyesore.
My personal concern too, as that will be the side I will view… LOL
It will be clad in glass.
The copy continues
It’s time for Blackstone to step up and anchor Project Commodore.
Somebody please… We definitely need to see that masterpiece rise!
It looks like a twin of the JPMorgan Chase supertall – 270 Park. Would be nice to have something original.
I don’t think it looks anything like the Chase building.
Did you look at the buildings before you made this comment? Its a blatant copy. Typical derivative Foster design
Yes, Ok..the sliced wedding cake analogy is vivid and accurate, but setbacks aside, this building to me has a very different vibe than Chase, it has a very Miami ‘white’ feel rather than Chase’s NYC dark..
350 park Avenue looks like someone sliced a wedding cake in the shape of 270 park Avenue down the middle, and then threw out the other half of the cake
..or ate it.
Or stripped down and rolled around in it…
It looks like a mock-up that has been given a higher height, but once the glass covering is complete it may not be: Thanks to Michael Young.
So we lose another midcentury modern tower for a supersized version of 111 W 57th St. Foster is running out of ideas, just like Bjarke. At just 62 floors, 20 foot ceilings are apparently the new fashion for 3-day week office drones forced to face each other all day long. Hopefully the next door historic Racquet & Tennis Club have sold their air rights to preserve the building.
I’d rather talk and interact with people than being a hermit crab stuck in my house doing Zoom sessions and sitting for eight hours a day
Okay Boomer
Spoken like a real deadbeat Eduardo. Sounds like the closest interaction you get with another person is the DoorDash delivery guy.
Go put on some pants and socialize more
Love your reply!
Eduardo, is that supposed to make you sound better or something?
Eduardo, you should literally touch grass and get off your lazy a$$ instead of trying to be some keyboard warrior where hiding behind a screen is the only place that makes you feel superior (Not)
Build it. Citadel moving everything to New York is good.
Unfortunately, not everything. Citadel is in the midst of developing one of the largest new office buildings in Brickell Florida
I’d like to see a rendering of the western elevation here..1600 feet straight up, that will be something!
Super tall! Even more congestion ….while we pursue congestion pricing to supposedly curtail congestion? The rght hand knows not what the left hand is doing. (while it picks our pockets). At the very least they could have created (and afforded) a memorable piece of architecture – instead of a staggered, unimaginative deck of playing cards. …not to mention giving us a TRULY open street level plaza to complement and enhance Park Avenue , instead of a claustrophobic set of massive and dull pillars right up the the sidewalk edge. Where have all the creative architects gone, long time passing?
Congestion pricing is working and actually doing what it was designed to do.
Some workers may be relocated here from other buildings.
The article says Citadel temporarily relocated to 660’Fifth Avenue and will move back when the new 350 Park Avenue is done. Wonder if they have other properties to consolidate everyone all under one roof
Yes, like at 425 Park Ave. where they are the prime tenant paying up to $350 per square foot
Yes, there’s an article about a lease they took out until this supertall is completed. it’s at 660 5th Ave. So no, they plan to also keep their lease at 425 Park Ave.
And yes, too bad that supertall in Miami isn’t being built in NYC, it’s absolutely stunning!
You think implementing congestion pricing means we should stop building in Manhattan?
They will be power washing that white Miami base every other day. They know this is NYC?
Also adding, the window washers will be thrilled to have a super tall with rounded glass corners all the way up! (Agree with the other comment that it’s Chase-ish looking with the tiered set backs to the ‘crown’.) I wonder what would happen if developers just asked Ai to create ideas…might be more interesting?
I feel like architectural firms and rendering companies like DBOX that help make these visuals should also show the back sides too, since there’s as much interest as showing the money shots. Seems unprofessional to ‘hide’ certain elements of a design
Only 62 floors in a 1600′ tall building? This is ridiculous. A lot of this, maybe 25 to 35% is unoccupied “vanity height”. If you’re going to build a super tall, at least make 90 to 95% of the space usable. Vanity height should be limited by the city.
This will have at least 150′ shaved off the height by the board for absolutely no other reason except wanting to throw their weight around. It happened to Commodore and it’ll happen here too.