Permits have been filed for a nine-story mixed-use building at 87 West 169th Street in Highbridge, The Bronx. Located between Shakespeare Avenue and Nelson Avenue, the interior lot is near the 170th Street subway station, serviced by the 4 train. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a ten-story mixed-use building at 2226 Third Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan. Located at the intersection of East 121st Street and Third Avenue, the corner lot is four blocks south of the 125th Street subway station, serviced by the 4, 5, and 6 trains. Real Estate Equities Corporation is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Demolition is progressing rapidly at 270 Park Avenue, the site of JP Morgan Chase‘s new 1,425-foot-tall headquarters in Midtown East and number three on our end-of-year countdown. The firm is demolishing its former 707-foot-tall, 52-story tower to make way for the massive supertall, which will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space. The full-block parcel is located between Park and Madison Avenues and East 47th and 48th Streets.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved the residential redevelopment of a historic mixed-use building at 315 Broadway in Tribeca. The landmarked structure was originally constructed around 1861 and currently contains a small retail component on the ground floor and four loft spaces above.
Work is moving along on the observatory in One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot-tall commercial supertall in Midtown East and number four on our countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in the city. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by SL Green, the 77-story skyscraper occupies a full-block parcel immediately to the west of Grand Central Terminal. Though the $1.4 billion property has been officially open since its ribbon-cutting ceremony in mid September, the indoor-outdoor observatory dubbed The Summit isn’t due to welcome the public until October 2021.
