French design house Hermès has signed a 71,757-square-foot lease at 550 Madison Avenue, Philip Johnson’s landmarked commercial tower in Midtown East, Manhattan. The sprawling new office will span three full levels across the 23rd through 25th floors.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 2081 Anthony Avenue in Tremont, The Bronx. Located at the intersection of East 180th Street and Anthony Avenue, the lot is two blocks south of the 182-183 Streets subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Moses Freund of The Vaja Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed to convert a two-story commercial building into a five-story mixed-use building at 1374 Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Located between Himrod Street and Harman Street, the lot is steps from the Knickerbocker Avenue subway station, serviced by the M train. David Halberstam of Bruklyn Builders Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Excavation is progressing at 520 Fifth Avenue, site of an 88-story mixed-use supertall skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for Rabina , which took over as the lead developer in 2019 from Ceruzzi Properties and SMI USA, the 1,002-foot-tall, 507,608-square-foot structure will yield 100 residential units, commercial space, and four cellar levels. Suffolk Construction is the general contractor for the project, which is located on a 10,625-square-foot lot at the corner of Fifth Avenue and West 43rd Street.
Demolition is underway at 123-141 West 57th Street, the site of a forthcoming 26-story, 185,000-square-foot office tower along Billionaires’ Row in Midtown, Manhattan. The site is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, surrounded by Christian de Portzamparc’s One57 and SHoP Architects‘ 111 West 57th Street. It was recently reported that Alchemy Properties and ABR Partners closed a $120 million deal to purchase the property, which was owned by Calvary Baptist Church and includes the adjacent 16-story, 153-foot-tall Salisbury Hotel. ABR Partner’s equity partner, Cain International, had brought on Security Benefit Life as the new lender. The total construction cost for the project is estimated to be roughly $350 million.
