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Foundations Are Excavated For Retail Project At 719 Seventh Avenue, Times Square

By Vitali Ogorodnikov

As SL Green is developing Midtown’s largest commercial property at One Vanderbilt across the street from Grand Central Terminal, the company is also building the neighborhood’s smallest ground-up project at 719 Seventh Avenue, just one block north of Times Square’s northern terminus. Despite its diminutive four-story size, the retail building will assert itself via a 150-foot-tall, 5,000-square-foot array of digital billboards. On-site demolition is complete, and excavation is well underway. Pavarini McGovern LLC is listed as the construction manager.

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The new base facade for 245 Park Avenue. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox.

245 Park Avenue Prepares For Renovations, Partial Re-Cladding in Midtown East, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Renovation work is ramping up on 245 Park Avenue, a 48-story commercial skyscraper in Midtown East, Manhattan. Developed by SL Green and designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with Fogarty Finger responsible for the design of the lobby, amenity spaces, roof terrace, the project will overhaul much of the structure’s interiors, replace a portion of the podium’s mid-century façade with a modern envelope, and add a new roof terrace to the parapet. The building was originally designed by Shreve Lamb & Harmon Associated and opened in 1967, and yields 1,754,500 square feet of office space. The property occupies a 2-acre block bounded by East 47th Street to the north, East 46th Street to the south, Lexington Avenue to the east, and Park Avenue to the west.

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Revised Design Revealed for Affirmation Tower At 418 11th Avenue in Hudson Yards, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Renderings have been revealed for a redesign of Affirmation Tower, a proposed mixed-use supertall skyscraper at 418 Eleventh Avenue in Hudson Yards. The development team of The Peebles Corporation, McKissack & McKissack, Exact Capital Group, and the Witkoff Group has brought on OMA to redesign the 1.4-million-square-foot structure, which is planned to yield mixed-income apartments, a convention center, retail space, community facilities, a public observation deck, and The National Civil Rights Museum as part of a collaboration with the NAACP. The project would rise from a 1.2-acre plot dubbed “Site K” bound by Eleventh Avenue, Hudson Boulevard West, and West 35th and 36th Streets.

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East Side Access Project’s Grand Central Madison Station Opens in Midtown East, Manhattan

By Michael Young

A infrastructure project more than a half century in the making has finally reached the finish line with last week’s official opening of the Grand Central Madison station, the centerpiece of the $11.1 billion East Side Access plan to bring Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown East. Multiple companies designed, engineered, and collaborated on the project and include AECOM and Jacobs as project managers; WSP as a managing partner of a three-firm joint venture that includes STV and Parsons; Tutor Perini Corporation; Dragados; Judlau Contracting; Skanska; Michels; Comstock; Halmar International; Schiavone; Piccone; Five Star; Yonkers Electric; Tully Environmental; and EJ Electric. The new terminal sits 150 feet below the existing Grand Central facility, along Vanderbilt Avenue between East 43rd and East 48th Streets. The first ceremonial train ran from the Jamaica station in Queens and arrived at the Grand Central Madison station on January 25 at 11:07 a.m.

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New Rendering Released for Project Commodore Supertall at 175 Park Avenue in Midtown East, Manhattan

By Michael Young

An updated rendering has been released for Project Commodore, an approved 85-story supertall skyscraper at 175 Park Avenue in Midtown East. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and developed by RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone, the 1,575-foot-tall mixed-use tower will replace the Hyatt Grand Central New York hotel and yield 2.1 million square feet of Class A office space, 500 Hyatt hotel rooms spread across 453,000 square feet on the upper floors, and 10,000 square feet of retail space on the ground, cellar, and second levels. The development will also include a 25,000-square-foot elevated public plaza surrounding the tower and abutting the adjacent Grand Central Terminal. If built to its current scope, Project Commodore will also wrest the title of tallest building in the western hemisphere by roof height from Central Park Tower. AECOM Tishman is going to be the general contractor and RWDI Inc. is the structural engineer.

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