Permits have been filed to convert a two-story structure into a four-story residential building at 53 Stanhope Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Located between Central and Evergreen Avenues, the interior lot is near the Central Avenue subway station, serviced by the M train. Arkady Nagorev of Crown Hall LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction has structurally topped out on 270 Park Avenue, JPMorgan Chase‘s 1,388-foot supertall headquarters in Midtown East. Designed by Lord Norman Foster of Foster + Partners with Adamsom Associates as the architect of record and developed by Tishman Speyer, 60-story skyscraper will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space with a capacity of 15,000 employees, and is the tallest project currently underway in New York. AECOM Tishman is the general contractor for the property, which spans a full city block bound by East 48th Street to the north, East 47th Street to the south, Park Avenue to the east, and Madison Avenue to the west.
The third entry in our Turkey Week rundown of stalled and on-hold construction projects in New York City is Affirmation Tower, a 1,663-foot mixed-use supertall at 418 Eleventh Avenue, just north of Related Companies‘ first phase of Hudson Yards. Designed by Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates and developed in collaboration between Cheryl McKissack Daniel of McKissack & McKissack, The Peebles Corporation, Exact Capital Group, and the Witkoff Group, the 2-million-square-foot structure would easily wrest the title of tallest building in New York by roof height from Extell’s Central Park Tower, surpassing its parapet by more than 100 feet. The development’s 1.2-acre plot, dubbed “Site K,” was also the site selected for the long-stale Hudson Spire proposal, and is bound by West 36th Street to the north, West 35th Street to the south, Eleventh Avenue to the east, and Hudson Boulevard to the west.
Spanish multinational financial services company BBVA has announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Two Manhattan West, a recently completed 58-story office skyscraper in the Manhattan West complex in Midtown West. The move is set to be finalized by the end of 2024.
Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 1152 Lafayette Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Located between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue, the interior lot is near the Knickerbocker Avenue subway station, serviced by the M train. Richard Zavlyanov of Diamond Development Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
