Construction has topped out on 319-321 West 38th Street, a 26-story Best Western Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architect and developed by 319 West 38th Steel LP, the 250-foot-tall structure will span 44,200 square feet with an undisclosed number of hotel rooms and a collection of amenities. The property stands on two adjoining interior plots between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
Demolition continues at 12 West 57th Street, the site of a proposed 52-story, 672-foot-tall residential skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and developed by Sheldon Solow of Solow Management Corp., who filed permits for the ground-up project in 2019, the tower will rise along Billionaires’ Row between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and West 56th and 57th Streets. The tower will rise on an assemblage formerly occupied by multiple low- and mid-rise buildings between 10 and 20 West 57th Street.
Construction has topped out on The Browning School’s campus expansion at 337 West 64th Street in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by S9 Architecture, the project involves the conversion and augmentation of a former parking garage and will yield 47,000 square feet for the K-12 college preparatory school for boys that currently operates out of several buildings between Park and Madison Avenues in addition to its main facility at 52 East 62nd Street. Plans call for the entire high school division to be moved to the new 83-foot-tall building, which will contain 13 new classrooms, four stories of offices, a library and cafeteria in the cellar, and an upper-floor gymnasium. The property will also feature a green roof and a rear yard. The development is located between First and Second Avenues.
New exterior renderings have been revealed for 350 East 18th Street, a 13-story residential building in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Designed by ARC Architecture + Design Studio and developed by Minrav Development, the 124-foot-tall structure will span 63,720 square feet and yield 40 condominium units with an average scope of 1,200 square feet, as well as 6,970 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is alternately addressed as 305 First Avenue and is located at the corner of East 18th Street and First Avenue, directly across from Stuyvesant Town.
The glass curtain wall has reached the roof parapet of The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower, a 12-story waterfront expansion of the Hospital For Special Surgery at 535 East 70th Street in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by EwingCole, the $200 million addition will span 100,000 square feet directly over FDR Drive and connect the main hospital wing to the south via a sky bridge. The property is located between East 71st and 72nd Streets.
