Several blocks to the north of 30 Park Place, Downtown’s other colossal residential building is also making headway; 56 Leonard’s vertical profile is verging on impressive, as the skyscraper continues its upwards charge into the Tribeca skyline. The site’s developers are Hines and Alexico, and the architect is Herzog & de Meuron.
Looking up from the corner of Church and Leonard
56 Leonard now stands approximately 23 floors above street level, and by next month’s update, the development should pass the half-way point; it will eventually stand 821 feet and 56 stories above street level.
56 Leonard
Crane sections were delivered over the weekend, and external forms for the skyscraper were also jumped this week; the below photos come from a reader at New York Law School, which offers a fantastic vantage point over the site.
New crane sections
Viewed from New York Law School
56 Leonard’s local prominence is beginning to result in minor positive externalities, as well; the building now blocks the extremely unpleasant 33 Thomas Street from certain angles, and will soon completely dominate its aesthetically unfortunate neighbor.
33 Thomas has now disappeared from the corner of Franklin and West Broadway
Completion of 56 Leonard is expected in 2016.
Downtown Rising
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