Roosevelt Island

Exterior Work Wraps Up on 460 Main Street on Roosevelt Island

7:00 am on May 4, 2020 By Michael Young

Work on the installation of the glass and brick fenestration for 460 Main Street, aka Riverwalk 8, has reached the roof parapet. Now most of the activity has shifted to finishing the ground-floor exterior of the 21-story, 341-unit building, located on Roosevelt Island and designed by Handel Architects. This will be the eighth component in the nine-building Riverwalk Park rental complex, which is developed as a joint venture between Related Companies and Hudson Companies.

Verizon Executive Education Center and Graduate Hotel Nears Completion on Roosevelt Island

7:00 am on September 17, 2019 By Michael Young

Façade work is wrapping up on the Verizon Tech Executive Education Center and Graduate Hotel on Roosevelt Island. The 18-story structure is designed by Snohetta and includes an adjacent four-story wing. Graduate Hotels will be the hotel operator of the project, which will have 196 rooms and amenities such as event spaces, a rooftop bar, a restaurant, a cafe, and four 50- to 75-seat classrooms. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the master planner of the campus, while Hudson Companies, Related Companies, and Brookfield are developing the entire Cornell Tech satellite campus.

Related Companies Files Permits for 29-Story Tower at 430 Main Street in Roosevelt Island

7:00 am on September 5, 2019 By Vanessa Londono

Permits have been filed for a 29-story mixed-use building at 430 Main Street on Roosevelt Island. Located on the east side of the island, the lot is near the Roosevelt Island subway station, serviced by the F train. Related Companies and Hudson Companies are listed as the owner behind the applications. The development partners are also responsible for the recently topped-off Riverwalk Park rental development on Roosevelt Island. This may be the ninth and final component in the nine-building Riverwalk rental complex.

Related Companies’s Riverwalk Park Tops Out at 460 Main Street on Roosevelt Island

6:30 am on August 20, 2019 By Michael Young

Work on 460 Main Street, aka Riverwalk 8, has topped out. One of the newest developments to rise on Roosevelt Island, the project contains the first permanent affordable housing to be built on the island. The 21-story, 340-unit building is designed by Handel Architects and is being developed as a joint venture between The Related Companies and Hudson Companies. Riverwalk 8 is the eighth component in the nine-building Riverwalk rental complex.

460 Main Street, aka Riverwalk 8, Passes Halfway Mark on Roosevelt Island

7:30 am on June 24, 2019 By Michael Young

Work has passed the halfway mark at 460 Main Street, aka Riverwalk 8, one of the newest additions to Roosevelt Island. The 21-story, 341-unit building is designed by Handel Architects and is being developed as a joint venture between The Related Companies and Hudson Companies. This will be the eighth component in the nine-building Riverwalk rental complex. Groundbreaking occurred earlier this year and topping out should happen sometime by the end of the year.

Rendering Revealed for Riverwalk 8 at 460 Main Street, on Roosevelt Island

7:30 am on December 14, 2018 By Sebastian Morris

Construction will soon begin on Riverwalk 8, the eighth building within Roosevelt Island’s Riverwalk rental complex. With groundbreaking imminent, YIMBY has the exclusive reveal for the first renderings of the project.

Construction Complete on First Phase of Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island Campus

6:30 am on September 14, 2017 By Nikolai Fedak

The first few components of Cornell’s new tech campus on Roosevelt Island are finally complete, and Tectonic has sent along photos documenting the progress. The development consists of 700,000 total square feet sprawling across an academic building, an incubator dubbed “The Bridge,” and a high-rise residential tower, which had topped-out as of YIMBY’s last update on the site, from June of 2016. Handel Architects is responsible for the design of the first phase of the project, but Skidmore Owings & Merrill is taking charge of the master plan, which will result in a new “Executive Education Center and Hotel” rising by 2019, as well.

Reveal For Cornell Tech’s Executive Education Center & Hotel Building, Roosevelt Island

8:00 am on November 14, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Now that construction is wrapping up on the first phase of Cornell Tech‘s Roosevelt Island campus, and opening is expected in the summer of 2017, per Crain’s, officials are moving ahead with additional pieces of the master plan. Plans were recently presented to Community Board 8 for the Executive Education Center and Hotel, DNAinfo reported.

Cornell Tech’s 26-Story, 250-Unit Passive House Dorm Tops Out on Roosevelt Island

6:00 am on June 22, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Cornell Tech’s 26-story, 250-unit Passive House residential building, dubbed CornellTECH Residential and being built as part of Cornell’s 10-building Roosevelt Island campus project, has now topped out and is receiving its façade. The student and faculty dormitory is roughly 70 percent complete, according to a Curbed NY report. The unit configurations range from studios to three-bedrooms, and amenities include a fitness center and a lounge/dining area with a kitchen on the 26th floor. Handel Architects is behind the design of the residential building, which is set to be the largest Passive House structure in the world.

First Phase Of Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island Campus Makes Significant Progress

10:00 am on January 25, 2016 By Reid Wilson

YIMBY last brought you a construction update in September, when foundation work was just wrapping up on multiple buildings of Cornell Tech’s planned Roosevelt Island campus. Since then, phase one’s academic buildings and residential tower have risen in the form of steel beams and concrete pours, respectively. Now, Snøhetta has been tasked to design the Verizon Executive Education Building, The Real Deal reports. It will be a conference center and is included in the first construction phase, which is due for completion in mid-2017. The other three buildings going up are the Bloomberg Center, The Bridge, and CornellTECH Residential, which are being designed by Morphosis Architecture, Weiss/Manfredi Architecture, and Handel Architects.

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