3080 Broadway

Savanna Plans Residential Tower At 3080 Broadway as Seminary Plans Expansion, Morningside Heights

1:00 pm on March 2, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Last month, Savanna paid $96 million for air rights and a piece of the Jewish Theological Seminary at 3080 Broadway, in Morningside Heights between West 122nd and 123rd streets. The developer has since secured $34.6 million to finance the acquisition, Commercial Observer reports. The Seminary will use the funds to renovate its campus, to build a performing arts center, and to build a new dormitory with an expansive library. Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will be designing the Seminary’s half of the project. As for Savanna’s piece of the project, a low-rise piece of the Seminary on West 122nd Street will be demolished and replaced by a 250,000-square-foot residential tower, to be designed by Beyer Blinder Belle. No targeted completion dates have been disclosed.

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Two Gotham Center

Tishman Speyer Planning Two Office Towers At 28-10 Queens Plaza South, Long Island City

11:00 am on March 2, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Tishman Speyer is now working to develop two more office towers on the same block as Two Gotham Center, the 22-story office building the developer built in 2011 at 42-09 28th Street, in Long Island City’s Queens Plaza section. According to The Real Deal, one of the buildings, dubbed One Gotham Center, will be a 29-story, 583,000-square-foot property with 20,000 square feet of retail space. It will include 200 parking spaces. Last year, WeWork signed a lease for 200,000 square feet of space in it. The second building, dubbed Three Gotham Center, will be a 30-story, 515,000-square-foot property with 11,000 square feet of retail space. WeWork has already leased 258,000 square feet of space in Three Gotham Center, according to EB-5 documents. The developer hopes to accumulate $145 million in financing from the EB-5 program. A targeted completion date has not given.

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33 Conselyea Street

Four-Story, Five-Unit Residential Project Planned At 33 Conselyea Street, Williamsburg

10:00 am on March 2, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Manhattan-based TA Dumbleton Development, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a five-story, four-unit residential building at 33 Conselyea Street, in central Williamsburg, located two blocks from the Metropolitan Avenue stop on the G train. The new building would measure 4,714 square feet in total and its units should measure an average 943 square feet apiece, so they could be either condos or rentals. The project’s fourth-floor penthouse unit also features a mezzanine level and a roof deck. Timothy Dumbleton’s development firm is also the architect of record and probably designing in-house. An existing two-story townhouse must first be demolished.

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Finalists for the "Reimagine a New York City Icon" contest for the MetLife Building.

MetLife Building Redesign Competition Finalists Announced

8:00 am on March 2, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

Back in September, we told you about a competition to conceive a redesign of the MetLife Building. Earlier this week, the six finalists of the “Reimagine a New York City Icon” competition were announced. The competition, sponsored by Metals in Construction magazine and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York, isn’t part of any actual process in the works to modify the Midtown office tower, but are fascinating ideas of what could be. Perhaps these ideas will be put into use at other buildings.

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Phases 1 and 2 of the Prospect Plaza affordable housing development take shape in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.

Second Phase of Prospect Plaza Affordable Housing Inches Toward the Finish Line in Ocean Hill

7:30 am on March 2, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

As the New York City Housing Authority struggles to develop its underutilized properties across the five boroughs, YIMBY revisited Prospect Plaza in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, where the city tore down an entire public housing project two years ago. Now, construction is wrapping up on the second phase of affordable rental buildings that replaced the 12- and 15-story towers.

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