George Xu’s Century Development Group, on August 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 119-unit, 103,481-square-foot mixed-use building at 11-36 45th Road in Long Island City, Queens. It appears the development will have two towers, described in the plans as “Building A” and “Building B”, with a shared ground floor. Last year the developer filed plans to demolish a 56,000-square-foot building at the…
Rybak Development, on August 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 91-unit, 150,780-square-foot residential building at 78-29 Austin Street in Forest Hills, Queens. Charles Tsakh filed the plans. The developer paid $20.9 million to the Kew-Forest School for the development site on June 29, 2022. The plans call for the construction of a 70-foot-tall, seven-story building and were filed with the New York…
Brause Realty, on August 8, filed several permit applications for the demolition of four buildings spanning 733 to 739 Second Avenue in Murray Hill, in Manhattan. David Brause, president of the firm, filed the plans. Earlier this year, the developer filed plans to demolish 729 Second Avenue, at the northwest corner of the intersection of 39th Street and Second Avenue. No new building plans have…
ZHL Group, on August 2, submitted a condominium plan for 43 residential units and 12 resort units at 618 Avenue H in Midwood, Brooklyn. The development is called H70 Condominium. The property was acquired for a total of $4.9 million in four separate transactions and the lots merged. The condo plan, CD220164, has a sellout price of $33,310,800 listed with the New York State Attorney…
Guy Peleg through Artlife 173-175 McGuinness LLC, on August 3, submitted a condominium plan for 24 residential units at 173 McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The developer purchased the site for $2.2 million in early 2019, per city records. The condo plan, CD220167, does not have a sellout price listed with the New York State Attorney General. Guy Peleg is listed as the principal. In…
Highpoint Property Group, on August 8, filed plans for a project to add three dwelling units to an existing three-unit building at 224 West 20th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Eli Liedman, managing director and principal at Highpoint Property Group, filed the plans. The project will add 5,622-square-feet of space to the existing building, bringing the total size to 11,217-square-feet. The plans call for the increase…
On August 8, plans were filed for a $9 million project relating to sprinkler upgrades at the Milstein Hospital at 177 Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The hospital is located at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The hospital, which opened in the late 1980s, is the primary site of adult, in-patient medical care on the Columbia campus. The plans call for work on…
The Stahl Organization, on August 8, filed plans for a $6.8 million rehabilitation of two floors of an office building at 277 Park Avenue in Grand Central. The plans call for work on floors 40 and 41 of the 685-foot-tall, 50-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00778649. The project is described in the filing as:…
By Atticus O’Brien-Pappalardo Boston Properties, on August 5, filed a permit application for construction of a 750,400-square-foot building at 343 Madison Avenue in Grand Central, Manhattan. Elizabeth Reilly, vice president of construction at Boston Properties, filed the plans. Below are zoning diagrams of the development. Below are renderings of the development from Kohn Pedersen Fox. More renderings can be seen here. On February 5 of…
ZD Jasper Realty, on August 1, filed a permit application for construction of a 52-unit, 48,138-square-foot mixed-use building at 439 West 36th Street in Hudson Yards, Manhattan. Tom Wu, founder of the firm, filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 120-foot tall, 12-story, mixed-use building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00771011. The…
Grid Group, on August 2, filed plans for a project to convert a two-story garage to a 22-unit residential building at 142 West 21st Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Yiannes Einhorn, a principal and one of the founders at the firm, filed the plans. The project will add 64,544 square feet of space to the building, bringing the total size to 80,879 square feet. This past…
Robert Saffayeh of Saffayeh Development, on July 29, filed a permit application for construction of a 28-unit, 32,751-square-foot residential building at 228 13th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. PincusCo exclusively reported back in November last year that the developer had signed a contract to purchase the site from a Roman Catholic church for $11.2 million. The brokers were JLL’s Guthrie Garvin and Winfield Clifford. The…
Rick Gropper’s Camber Property Group, on July 29, filed a permit application for construction of a 63-unit, 52,914-square-foot shelter building at 114 Snediker Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. The developer recently received a permit for construction of a 128-unit, 100,444-square-foot mixed-use building at 1601 Dekalb Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The plans call for the construction of a 59-foot-tall, five-story building and were filed with…
Lin Li, on August 2, filed a permit application for construction of a 23-unit, 23,511-square-foot residential building at 139-45 35th Avenue in Flushing, Queens. The plans call for the construction of a 55-foot-tall, six-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number Q00778284. The development site spans one tax lot. The lot has a width of 50 feet….
Bowery Residents’ Committee, Inc. (BRC), on August 3, filed a permit application for construction of a 12-unit, 29,834-square-foot shelter at 3972 10th Avenue in Inwood, Manhattan. Lilia Marini-Calves, CFO of BRC, filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 54-foot-tall, four-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00775346. The development site spans one…
Empire State Realty Trust, on August 4, filed plans for a $49 million rehabilitation of one floor of the Empire State Building at 350 Fifth Avenue in the Garment District, Manhattan. The plans call for work on the 54th floor of the 1,250-foot-tall, 102-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00778561. In May of 2013, the…
The number of new building plans calling for the construction of office buildings to be filed with the New York City Department of Buildings nearly doubled from Q1 to Q2, according to an analysis of job applications by PincusCo. Perhaps more significantly, the plans called for over 1.2 million square feet of new construction, a 78 percent increase from Q1. There were 15 new building…
Residential development experienced a sharp downturn in the second quarter of 2022 after hitting record highs in the previous two quarters. There were just over 9,000 residential units filed for in multifamily buildings in Q2, which was a nearly 50 percent decline from the 17,904 dwelling units filed for in Q1. An additional 18,718 dwelling units had been filed for in Q4 of 2021, the…
The affordable development company Omni New York, on July 28, revealed plans for the construction of two developments with a combined 175,000 square feet of space and approximately 155 new affordable units at 281 and 311 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The project area comprises Brooklyn Block 1629, Lot 1 (the “North Lot”) – an 87,000-square-foot zoning lot – and Block 1634, Lot 1…
Michael Becht of Bartlett Dairy, on August 1, was given a permit for construction of a 53,230-square-foot storage building at 161-02 Rockaway Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, adjacent to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The plans, pre-filed on July 7, 2020, call for the construction of a 46-foot tall, two-story building. Below are zoning diagrams for the development. The project is described in the filings as:…
