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RIU Hotel Skyscraper Begins Ascent At 1710 Broadway in Midtown, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

At number 21 on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is 1710 Broadway, a 633-foot-tall hotel skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Moss Architects and developed by RIU Hotels and Resorts, the 54-story structure will yield 673 hotel rooms, as well as two 300-seat restaurants and a lounge bar. The 8,848-square-foot development site has 129 feet of frontage at the corner of Broadway and West 54th Street.

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871 Seventh Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.

Demolition Prep Underway for Extell Supertall at 871 Seventh Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Demolition preparations are underway at 871 Seventh Avenue, the site of a 1,050-foot mixed-use supertall skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Extell, the 71-story structure will span 484,000 square feet and yield 130 condominium units with an average scope of 2,315 square feet, as well as a 159,000-square-foot hotel with 156 rooms. The project will also include 24,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a 55-vehicle parking garage. The skyscraper will replace the 26-story Wellington Hotel at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 55th Street.

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RIU Hotel Skyscraper Reaches Street Level at 1710 Broadway in Midtown, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction has reached street level at 1710 Broadway, the site of a 54-story hotel skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Moss Architects and developed by RIU Hotels and Resorts, the 633-foot-tall structure will yield 673 hotel rooms, as well as two 300-seat restaurants and a lounge bar. The 8,848-square-foot development site has 129 feet of frontage at the corner of Broadway and West 54th Street.

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One High Line's public park. Photo by Michael Young.

One High Line’s Public Park Opens at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction is complete on the new landscaped public plaza at One High Line, a two-tower residential development at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. The park sits to the east of the twisting 36- and 26-story structures and was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Field Operations in a private-public partnership between the City of New York and Friends of the High Line. Suffolk Construction was the general contractor.  The towers, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group for Witkoff Group and Access Industries, are also complete and span around 900,000 square feet with 236 condominium units in one- to five-bedroom layouts. The property also includes a Faena Hotel. The development is alternately addressed as 76 Eleventh Avenue and straddles the High Line on a trapezoidal plot bounded by West 18th Street to the north, West 17th Street to the south, Tenth Avenue to the east, and West Street to the west.

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The Torch at 740 Eighth Avenue. Rendering courtesy of ODA New York.

The Torch Begins Its Ascent at 740 Eighth Avenue in Times Square, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction is rising steadily on The Torch, a 52-story supertall skyscraper at 740 Eighth Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by ODA and developed by Extell, the 1,067-foot-tall structure will span 875,372 square feet and yield an 825-room hotel topped by a public outdoor observation deck with a drop ride attraction in its signature stemlike column. The mixed-use project is also slated to include lower-level retail space, a restaurant on two of the upper floors, a VIP lounge, and a pool deck for hotel guests. SLCE Architects is the architect of record for the development, which is located along Eighth Avenue between West 45th and 46th Streets on the border of Times Square and Hell’s Kitchen.

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