Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 2203 Clarendon Road in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The site comes ten blocks away from the Beverly Road Subway Station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. 11 blocks away in the opposite direction is a homonymous Subway Station, serviced by the Q trains. IDS Management will be responsible for the development.
Permits have been filed for a single-story commercial building at 8923 Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The site is ten blocks away from the Rockaway Parkway Station, the final stop for the L train. Gabriel Development will be responsible for the project.
Construction is moving along at One Vanderbilt in Midtown, with work on the lower floors now rising past the cantilever. Thanks to images by Tectonic, we can see the tower has reached its maximum width. It is now nearly the same height as Grand Central Terminal, which peaks at 130 feet. Several companies have recently signed on for space, with Greenberg Traurig announcing plans to move their center of New York Operations into the supertall, acquiring a fifteen-year lease for four continuous floors.
Renderings are out for a complete redesign of 609 Fifth Avenue, a large retail space on one of the busiest street corners in the country, in Midtown Manhattan. The modern façade will bring floor-to-ceiling windows to the base of the limestone structure.
New permits have been filed for a mixed-use building at 894 Fountain Street, in East New York, Brooklyn. The extant multi-building complex is owned by the State of New York and was previously the home of the Brooklyn Developmental Center.
