Construction is now underway at 19-00 Pollitt Drive, a new 55-plus rental community developed by Kushner Real Estate Group in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. The building will comprise 307 residences, including 46 affordable housing units, and assortment of indoor-outdoor amenity spaces.
Permits have been filed for a five-story mixed-use building at 2289-2291 Third Avenue in Harlem, Manhattan. The site is currently occupied by a four-story building and a two-story building, both which will be demolished above the first floor for the new development. Located between East 124th and 125th Streets, the lot is one block east of the 125th Street subway station, serviced by the 4, 5, and 6 trains. Tower Management Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 676 Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Located between Bedford Avenue and Skillman Street, the lot is near the Myrtle-Willoughby Avenues subway station, serviced by the G train. Joel Werczberger of Watermark is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Demolition work is ramping up for PENN 15, a 56-story, 1,200-foot commercial supertall at 15 Penn Plaza in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Foster + Partners and developed by Vornado Realty Trust, the 2.7 million-square-foot tower will replace the aging Hotel Pennsylvania and stand as the tallest component in the 7.4 million-square-foot Penn District master plan. 401 Hotel Reit is the owner and Northstar Contracting Group is the demolition contractor for the property, which is bound by Seventh Avenue to the west, West 32nd Street to the south, and West 33rd Street to the north.
Foundation work is almost complete at 312 West 43rd Street, the site of a two-building residential development in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Taconic Partners under the 311 West 42nd Street Associates LLC, the 373,133-square-foot project comprises a 33-story tower and seven-story extension with a shared podium. The complex will yield 321 apartments averaging 839 square feet apiece as well as 25,202 square feet of retail space on the lower floors. Triton Construction is serving as the general contractor for the property, which is located between West 42nd and 43rd Streets and Eighth and Ninth Avenues, directly north of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
