The Brooklyn Heights Jewish Academy, a Lubavitch dream for decades, is finally becoming a reality. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission gave its blessing to the plan for the school’s structure – located at 81…
Cape Advisors shelled out $50 million for six buildings in Tribeca last year. On Wednesday, they filed plans to erect an eight-story condo building at 75 West Broadway, on a site that stretches a full block between Warren and Murray streets.
In August of 2015, news broke that Tishman Speyer was acquiring five stories of Macy’s nine-story commercial building at 422 Fulton Street, along with the parking garage at 11 Hoyt Street/217 Livingston Street, in Downtown Brooklyn, for $170 million. Macy’s is expected to consolidate their retail space into 278,000 square feet on the lower half of the building (basement through fourth floors). Speyer would then expand and convert the upper portion into 10 stories of office space. The Wall Street Journal now has the first glimpse of the renovations, which Speyer has agreed to fund (as part of the deal), that will go into Macy’s portion of the building. Macy’s and FRCH Design Worldwide are designing their space. Work is expected to begin imminently, and the renovation is expected to be complete in 2019. It was recently reported that Speyer would be utilizing the EB-5 program to raise roughly $60 million in financing.
Last month, YIMBY revealed new renderings of the 23-story, 303-unit mixed-use building planned at 38 Sixth Avenue, in Prospect Heights, located within the 15-building Pacific Park mega-development. Curbed NY now has an update on the entire project, but more specifically photos revealing that this portion of Pacific Park is finally rising. The structure is currently two stories above street level. It will eventually encompass 341,595 square feet and will feature 8,700 square feet of retail space and medical offices on the ground floor. The rental apartments, averaging 957 square feet apiece, will all rent at below market-rates. There will be a mix of studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. A partnership between Forest City Ratner and Greenland USA is developing, and SHoP Architects is behind the design. Completion is expected in late 2017.
Simon Cheung, doing business as an anonymous Flushing-based corporation, has filed applications for two three-story, two-unit residential building at 67-21 – 67-23 185th Street, in Utopia, located three blocks south of the Long Island Expressway. Each building will measure 2,875 square feet, with one unit taking up the ground floor and the second unit spanning across the second and third floors. The apartments will likely be geared towards families and will have multiple bedrooms. Theeshium E. Ken’s Flushing-based Paul Mok Engineering is the applicant of record. The site’s former single-story, single-family house was demolished last year.
