WatchHouse, a London-based specialty coffee roastery and café, has opened its first United States location at 660 Fifth Avenue, a recently renovated 39-story commercial tower in Midtown, Manhattan. The coffee shop recently signed a lease for approximately 1,500 square feet on the ground floor. The building is located West 52nd and 53rd Streets and was formerly addressed as 666 Fifth Avenue.
Permits have been filed to expand a two-story structure into a four-story residential building at 489 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Union Avenue and Borinquen Place, the lot is near the Metropolitan Avenue-Lorimer Street subway station, serviced by the G and L trains. Aryeh Mendlowic is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction is nearing completion on 1515 Surf Avenue, a two-tower residential project along the Coney Island waterfront in Brooklyn. Designed by Studio V Architecture and developed by LCOR, the 16- and 26-story structures will span 470,000 square feet and yield 324 units in one- and two-bedroom layouts, with 139 apartments designated for affordable housing, as well as 10,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is located on a 1.5-acre plot bound by Surf Avenue to the south, West 15th Street to the east, and West 16th Street to the west.
Curtain wall installation is progressing on The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower, a 12-story waterfront expansion of the Hospital For Special Surgery at 535 East 70th Street in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by EwingCole, the $200 million addition will span 100,000 square feet directly over FDR Drive and connect the main hospital wing to the south via a sky bridge. Tishman Construction Corp. is the general contractor for the property, which is located between East 71st and 72nd Streets.
Institutional investment fund sponsor Foss & Company and environmental nonprofit Scenic Hudson have closed on a former manufacturing facility at 58 Parker Avenue and 164 Garden Street in Poughkeepsie. This historic tax credit project will see an extensive renovation and reinvention for five interconnected Standard Gage manufacturing buildings, which have been vacant since the company’s departure from the area in 2002.
