380 Madison Avenue [New York Post]: L&L Holdings Company has planned a massive redesign of the currently vacant 24-story office building located at 380 Madison Avenue, in Midtown East. KPF is reinventing the 900,000 square-foot structure which will stand 32 stories tall and “will be clad in reflective glass.” Delivery is expected “by early 2017.”
212 East 44th Street [The Real Deal]: BLDG 44 Developers has filed applications for a 41-story, 342-unit mixed-use residential and retail building totaling nearly 296,800 square feet at 212-214 East 44th Street, in Midtown East. The bottom three floors of the existing nine-story structure will be built upon, and Handel Architects is designing; “SLCE is the executive architect.”
Empire Stores, rendering via Midtown Equities
Empire Stores [Crain’s New York]: Midtown Equities is expecting to complete their “$150 million gut renovation” of multiple existing mid-rise buildings — located in Dumbo — “in about six months.” Dubbed Empire Stores, the redevelopment will total 500,000 square feet of mixed-use commercial space.
543 Seguine Avenue [The Real Deal]: Muss Development has placed a vacant 22-acre development site — spanning 543-605 Seguine Avenue, in southern Prince’s Bay at Seguine Point — on the market. The parcel’s value “is expected [to be] in the $30 million range,” and offers 450,000 buildable square feet. In 2010, the site received approval for “104 detached single-family homes and 28 townhouses.”
The Ark at JFK [Wall Street Journal]: ARK Development has purchased a lease from the Port Authority to build “a $48 million animal handling facility” measuring 178,000 square feet and dubbed The Ark. Located at the currently vacant Cargo Building 78, the facility “is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2016.”
1059 Manhattan Avenue [Brownstoner]: The 23-unit, nearly 19,900 square-foot building at 1059 Manhattan Avenue, in Greenpoint, is nearly complete. Asher Herkowitz designed the project, and an early 2015 opening date seems likely.
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