Midtown

Twin Supertalls Revealed as Part of Garden City, Possible Relocation of Madison Square Garden, in Midtown Manhattan

Community Board Five’s Land Use, Housing & Zoning Committee voted in a meeting on Wednesday to advance plans for a massive undertaking in Midtown involving the conversion of Madison Square Garden into a new concourse for Penn Station, and the creation of a new home for the sports facility between two supertall skyscrapers near Herald Square. Initially proposed in 2016 by Vishaan Chakrabarti, founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), new renderings give visual context to the plan, to which the city council agreed with the consideration of The Madison Square Garden Company’s acquisition of a shorter extension of its current lease.

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Gene Kaufman’s 974-Room Hotel Begins Ascent at 150 West 48th Street in Times Square, Manhattan

Construction is rising at 150 West 48th Street. a 974-room hotel in Times Square. The 300,216-square-foot structure is designed by Gene Kaufman Architect for Sam Chang of McSam Hotel Group, which purchased the property from Rockefeller Group in early 2019 for $140 million, and received a $250 million construction loan before breaking ground last year. The site is located between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue and is part of the growing collection of new hotels rising around the famous crossroads.

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