Superstructure work is continuing for 270 Park Avenue, JPMorgan Chase‘s upcoming 1,388-foot, 70-story supertall headquarters in Midtown East and number four on our year-end construction countdown. The project spans a full block between Park and Madison Avenues and 47th and 48th Streets, and will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space.
Construction is complete on the Best Western Premiere Empire State Hotel, a 22-story structure at 16 East 30th Street in NoMad. Designed by Brooklyn-based firm Baobab Architects and NAA, the relatively slim 37,000-square-foot structure stands 225 feet tall and yields 102 rooms between Madison and Fifth Avenues.
Developers, elected officials, and community leaders recently celebrated the grand opening of Citizen Linden, a new residential complex at 307 West Elizabeth Avenue in Linden, New Jersey. The property is the latest project completed by Accurate Builders & Developers and comprises 234 rental apartments, 4,500 square feet of retail space, and a parking garage designed to accommodate 292 vehicles.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 43-12 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Located between 43rd Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue, the lot is near the 52nd Street – Lincoln Avenue subway station, serviced by the 7 train. Matthew Lawrence of Sarana Development is listed as the owner behind the applications.
At number five on our year-end countdown is 570 Fifth Avenue, a mixed-use skyscraper in Midtown. Last week it was revealed that Extell filed permits to develop a ground-up structure with a maximum architectural height of 1,100 feet and 78 floors, making it a potential supertall structure standing on a 43,011-square-foot corner plot bound by Fifth Avenue and West 46th Street. The parcel itself has been sitting cleared and vacant for quite some time, but that will soon change as plans for this latest skyscraper get underway. No architect has been revealed for the project, or what interior functions will be housed inside, though a series of zoning and massing diagrams and ground-floor plans give us an idea about the scale of this mammoth edifice.
