Permits have been filed to convert a five-story mixed-use structure into a six-story commercial building at 117 East 15th Street in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Located between Union Square East and Irving Place, the lot is one block from the 14th Street-Union Square subway station, serviced by the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, and W trains. Alex Lee is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Demolition work is nearing completion at 200 East Tremont Avenue in the Mt. Hope neighborhood of The Bronx. 200 East Tremont JV LLC is listed as the owner and Xolle Demo LLC is the general contractor for the property, which spans a quarter of an acre at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Monroe Avenue, just to the east of the Grand Concourse. No information has been revealed for the forthcoming development, as only demolition permits have been filed thus far. The land currently remains zoned for commercial development.
New renderings have been revealed for Lorimer House, an eight-story mixed-use building at 265 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by ODA, which also will serve as landscape architect, and developed by Joyland Management, Meral Property Group, and Loketch Group, the 85-foot-tall, 318,400-square foot structure will yield 270 rental units in studio- to two-bedroom layouts including some with private outdoor space, as well as a set of 66 rental homes called the Copper Lofts, ground-floor commercial space, and more than 40,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities. Durukan Design is the landscape designer for the project, which is located on a formerly vacant plot bound by Boerum Street to the north, Broadway to the south, and Lorimer Street to the east.
Exterior work is continuing on JPMorgan Chase‘s 1,388-foot supertall headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown East. Designed by Lord Norman Foster of Foster + Partners with Adamson Associates as the architect of record and developed by Tishman Speyer, the topped-out 60-story skyscraper will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space with a capacity of 15,000 employees, and will become the tallest structure in New York completely powered by hydroelectric energy. AECOM Tishman is the general contractor for the project, which occupies a full city block bound by East 48th Street to the north, East 47th Street to the south, Park Avenue to the east, and Madison Avenue to the west.
