Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 550 Trinity Avenue in Woodstock, The Bronx. Located between East 149th Street and Pontiac Place, the lot is two blocks south of the Jackson Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Shimshon Grunstein under the 550 Trinity LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 73 West End Avenue in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Located between Ocean Court and Hampton Avenue, the lot is a few blocks south of the Sheepshead Bay subway station, serviced by the B and Q trains. Vahe Sahakyan under the West End Avenue Development LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
YIMBY went to check in on the progress of demolition and excavation for Disney’s new 1.2-million-square-foot headquarters at 137 Varick Street, aka Four Hudson Square, in Lower Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and developed in partnership with Silverstein Properties, the 22-story building is slated to stand 320 feet tall. Skanska is overseeing the demolition process for the Hudson Square property, which Disney purchased from Trinity Church Real Estate for $650 million.
The Lionsgate Motion Picture Group will soon debut a new studio complex in Yonkers following the approval of a major financing package from the city’s development agency. The project is expected to create up to 420 permanent jobs as well as 400 construction jobs.
Permits have been filed for a 16-story residential building at 2080 Boston Road in West Farms, The Bronx. Located at the intersection of East 180th Street and Boston Road, the corner lot is two blocks north of the West Farms Square-East Tremont Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Non-profit developer Phipps Houses and the Boston Tremont Housing Development Fund Corporation is listed as the owner behind the applications.
