Westchester County’s Industrial Development Agency has approved financial incentives for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ $1.8 billion campus expansion project in Tarrytown. With the expansion, Regeneron expects to create more than 2,700 new construction jobs, around 1,000 permanent positions, and an estimated $357 million in economic activity for Westchester County.
Foundation work is underway at 403 East 79th Street, the site of a 30-story medical office building in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Extell Development Company, the structure will yield 400,000 square feet of Class A offices and retail space on the ground floor and cellar levels. The Hospital for Special Surgery has signed on as the anchor tenant and will occupy 200,000 square feet across the first eight stories. Ancora Engineering is the engineer of record and Lendlease is the general contractor for the property, which is alternatively addressed as 1522 First Avenue and located between East 79th and East 80th Streets.
Repair work is set to begin on 18-20 Christopher Street, a pair of derelict two-story homes in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Owned by Nazarian Property Group, the structures have been issued an order to vacate from the Department of Buildings and currently stand in a state of significant disrepair. The townhomes at 18-20 Christopher Street were constructed in 1827 and are located between Gay Street to the east and Waverly Place to the west.
The Barbara Kleiman Men’s Shelter will soon debut at 19 Debevoise Avenue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where construction is now underway. The first phase of development includes the conversion of a former nurses’ residence on the defunct Greenpoint Hospital campus into the 200-bed shelter, which is expected to open by October 2025.
HOK has revealed a rendering for its renovation of the Hamilton and Amabel James Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at 3 East 101st Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. The new research facility will occupy all 12 stories of a former nursing residence constructed in 1964.
