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New 8,125-Seat Grandstand Stadium to Open for 2016 US Open

4:00 pm on June 23, 2016 By Reid Wilson

The United States Tennis Association’s 125,000-square-foot, 8,125-seat Grandstand Stadium is scheduled to debut for the 2016 US Open. The new stadium is a significant element of the $550 million overhaul of the 46-acre USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens. The seating capacity is 2,125 people more than before. The design comes from Detroit-based ROSSETTI, which is also behind the design of the renovated Arthur Ashe Stadium. As part of the overhaul, Ashe is getting a new, retractable roof. Other additions and upgrades to the include a retractable roof for Louis Armstrong Stadium and a two-tiered observation deck that overlooks the practice courts. Completion of the entire project is expected by 2018 and this year’s tournament runs from August 29 to September 11.

3 World Trade Center, June 2016. Credit: Joe Woolhead

3 World Trade Center Tops Out This Morning

8:00 am on June 23, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

The building of the new World Trade Center is about to take one big step closer to completion. 3 World Trade Center, the fourth office tower to be rebuilt following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will be topped out later this morning.

Office-Retail Renovation Underway at 12-Story, 61,000-Square-Foot Building, 3 East 28th Street, NoMad

6:00 am on June 23, 2016 By Reid Wilson

The vacant, 12-story former manufacturing building at 3 East 28th Street, in NoMad, is now receiving a $20 million gut-renovation. The 61,325-square-foot structure is being upgraded and modernized to accommodate office and retail tenants, Commercial Observer first reported, and YIMBY has renderings of the project.

Two-Story, 21,000-Square-Foot Boat Sales Business Planned at 2433 Knapp Street, Sheepshead Bay

2:00 pm on June 22, 2016 By Reid Wilson

An anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC has filed applications for a two-story, 21,000-square-foot commercial building at 2433 Knapp Street, located along the Plumb Beach Channel in far-eastern Sheepshead Bay. The structure will house a boat sales business with interior space to showcase eight vessels. The facility will also have off-street parking for 54 cars. Not specified is whether the project will include a dock, but since it’s located along the water, one would hardly be surprising. Steven Schneider’s New Jersey-based Schneider Associates is the architect of record. The 78,000-square-foot property, of which 25,000-square feet is developable, is vacant. In 2014, the site was on the market for $2.3 million. The latest owner acquired it in 2015 for $1.5 million.

Proposal for 21 West 17th Street and 16 West 18th Street

Landmarks Approves New Buildings at 21 West 17th Street and 16 West 18th Street

7:30 am on June 22, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

It will be out with the old and in with the new in a historic part of Chelsea. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved demolition of the existing structures at 21 West 17^th Street and 16 West 18^th Street and the construction of new residential buildings to replace them. The site is between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District.

Work Begins on Five-Story, 90-Unit Mixed-Use Development at 662 South 2nd Street, Plainfield, New Jersey

6:00 am on June 21, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Excavation work is now underway for a mixed-use project on the long-vacant 4.97-acre brownfield site at 662-758 South 2nd Street, in the North Jersey city of Plainfield. That’s in Union County. Under development is a five-story, 90-unit residential building, dubbed The Muse at Grant Avenue, and a single-story, 44,000-square-foot commercial building that will be leased to ABC Supply Company, according to NJBIZ. The units will range from one- to three-bedrooms, and below-market rate units are also included. Amenities include a parking garage, a fitness center, and a community room. The commercial building will serve as a distribution facility, featuring a staging area and 4,000 square feet of accessory office space. J.G. Petrucci Co. Inc. and TD + Partners are the developers. Completion on ABC Supply’s facility is expected later this year, while occupancy of the residential building is scheduled in 2018. The project is the city’s largest mixed-use development in 40 years. The site is located one mile south of NJ Transit’s Plainfield station.

75 Rockefeller Plaza - existing conditions, previous proposal, and revised proposal

Landmarks Approves Rooftop Addition to 75 Rockefeller Plaza

7:30 am on June 16, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

A former piece of Rockefeller Center is set to grow a bit. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a rooftop addition to 75 Rockefeller Plaza.

Two-Story, 27,000-Square-Foot Manufacturing Building Planned at 749 East 43rd Street, East Flatbush

2:00 pm on June 15, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Brooklyn-based property owner Albert Faks has filed applications for a two-story, 27,381-square-foot commercial warehouse at 749 East 43rd Street, in southern East Flatbush, located 14 blocks from the Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College stop on the 2 and 5 trains. The facility will host food products manufacturing space on the ground floor, and accessory office and storage space on the second floor, according to the Schedule A. The 30-foot-tall structure will rise on a 27,500-square-foot plot currently partially occupied by a single-story warehouse. Permitsto to raze the existing building haven’t been filed yet, which means the new structure will probably rise on the vacant southern portion of the property. Brooklyn-based Felix Pustylnik is the applicant of record.

Foundation Work Underway on Base of New York Wheel, 155 Richmond Terrace, St. George

6:00 am on June 14, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in November of 2015, the city approved design changes to the 630-foot-tall New York Wheel project at 155 Richmond Terrace, in St. George, Staten Island. At the time, construction was underway on the project’s four-level accessory commercial building. That commercial structure has since topped out and foundation work is now underway on the base of the Ferris wheel itself. The topped-out commercial structure encompasses 418,901 square feet, and features a 950-car parking garage, exhibition/gallery spaces, ticketing offices/security screening, a bike rental facility, a food hall, and commercial-retail space. The roof will also include a playground, a gallery, a restaurant, a performance stage, and landscaped recreational space. A large part of the building is expected to open this summer, with the entire project scheduled for completion in in 2017. Starneth B.V. is constructing the New York Wheel. S9 Architecture, with Navid Maqami as design principal in charge, and Perkins Eastman, with Jonathan Cohn as project manager, are behind the design.

14-Story, 84,000-Square-Foot Multi-Use Commercial Building Filed at 827 Broadway, Greenwich Village

3:00 pm on June 13, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in August of 2015, Quality Capital and Caerus Group acquired, for $60 million, the two four-story, mixed-use buildings at 827-831 Broadway, located between East 12th and 13th streets in Greenwich Village. Now, the developers have filed applications for a 14-story, 84,108-square-foot multi-use commercial building at the site. The building will stand 289 feet above street level. It will feature retail space across parts of the cellar through third floors, 6,394 square feet of medical office space on parts of the second and third floor, and office space on the fourth through 14th floors. Amenities will include storage space on the cellar, a terrace on the fourth floor, and a rooftop terrace. The existing buildings, which together measure 36,500 square feet, include retail on the bottom two floors and apartments on the upper two floors. Chelsea-based CD3 Architecture is the architect of record. Demolition permits have not yet been filed.

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