Kathy Ho, on January 13, filed a permit application for construction of a 87-unit, 68,999-square-foot mixed-use building at 43-15 52nd Street in Sunnyside, Queens. The plans are one of three total new building plans filed in the neighborhood in the previous three months. The three plans combined to call for the construction of 247 dwelling units. The property was acquired with three other properties for…
George Xu’s Century Development, on January 13, filed multiple permit applications for the demolition of seven buildings at the corner of Farrington Street and 35th Avenue in Flushing, Queens. The site is located across the street from George Xu’s 100-unit condominium, known as The Farrington, located at 134-37 35th Avenue. The building currently has a $208,627,351 sellout with the NYS AG. The seven buildings are…
Vanderbilt Atlantic Holdings, on January 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 267-unit, 237,197-square-foot mixed-use building at 840 Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Tom Li, who runs the company along with Sam Rottenberg, filed the plans. Vanderbilt Atlantic Holdings is a relatively unknown developer. According to several reports, Simon Dushinsky, a principal at Rabsky Group, is involved in the project as a…
The Hakimian Organization, on January 12, filed a permit application for construction of a 136-unit, 113,000-square-foot mixed-use building at 250 West 49th Street in Times Square, Manhattan. Rex Hakimian, executive director at The Hakimian Organization, filed the plans. The firm recently sold their hotel condo at 75 Wall Street in Financial District for $84.7 million to the Long Island-based investment company Navika Capital Group. The…
Moses Kupferstein’s BBM Construction Corp., on January 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 37-unit, 31,008-square-foot mixed-use building at 219 West 125th Street in Central Harlem, Manhattan. The plans are one of 12 new building plans filed in Harlem over the previous 12 months. The 12 plans combined to call for the construction of 641 dwelling units in the neighborhood over the span….
Ben Kornblum, on January 12, filed a permit application for construction of a 20-unit, 17,600-square-foot residential building at 353 East 31st Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Over the previous 12 months there have been 40 new building plans filed in East Flatbush. Those plans combined to call for the construction of 757 new units in the neighborhood. The plans call for the construction of a…
Plaza Cars, on January 12, filed a permit application for construction of a 32,177-square-foot building at 2800 Nostrand Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn. John Rosatti, filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 23-foot-tall, one-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number B00651958. The project is described in the filing as: proposed new one-story and…
Gateway Church, on January 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 20,723-square-foot chapel at 200 Boscombe Avenue in Staten Island. Michael Luciano filed the plans. The chapel will be attached to an existing church building, as can be seen in the zoning diagrams below. In total, the existing church and new chapel will consist of 81,549-square-feet of space. The plans call for the…
Boston Properties, on January 12, filed plans for a $15 million rehabilitation of two floors of an office building at 399 Park Avenue in Plaza District, Manhattan. In the previous 12 months there have been 48 plans filed for a total of $46,336,197 of work at the building. These plans call for a rehab of the 482-foot-tall, 43-story building and were filed with the New…
The New York City Economic Development Corporation, on January 11, filed two plans for a total of $23.4 million at 3 Times Square in Manhattan. At least one of the projects is for space occupied by Touro College. The building was developed by Rudin Management for news-media company Reuters, both of whom have a long-term leasehold on the building, although the NYC EDC owns the…
Bardhok Kodra through the company Kodra Contracting Corp., on January 10, filed a permit application for construction of an 84-unit, 55,771-square-foot residential building at 1015 East Gun Hill Road in Williamsbridge, the Bronx. There have been seven new building plans filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call for the construction of a 65-foot-tall, seven-story building and were filed with the…
On January 4, Jun Ming Mai submitted a condominium plan for six residential units at 61 North Henry Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The condo plan, CD220003, has a sellout price of $12.2 million listed with the New York State Attorney General. Jun Ming Mai is listed as a member. The developer purchased the site for $1.4 million in November of 2020. In April of 2019,…
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, on January 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 51,000-square-foot sanctuary at 444 Ruby Street in East New York, Brooklyn. Kunle Omotoso, a pastor with the church, filed the plans. The plans are one of 28 new building plans filed in East New York over the previous 12 months. Of the 28 plans, these are the first…
The Sheet Metal Workers union Local 28, on January 10, filed plans for a $7.5 million rehabilitation of their building at 139-20 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Per their website, Local 28 is a sheet metal union that was established in the early 1900s. The plans call for a renovation of the 26-foot-tall, one-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of…
Ogden CAP, on January 10, filed plans for a $3 million rehab of a medical building’s exterior at 215 East 95th Street in Yorkville, Manhattan. The plans call for work on the facade of the 380-foot-tall, 35-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00591112. The project is described in the filing as: facade repairs as per…
Brause Realty, on January 10, filed a permit application for the demolition of a 6,614-square-foot commercial building at 729 Second Avenue in Murray Hill, Manhattan. David Brause, president of the firm, filed the plans. This is a corner building at the northwest corner of the intersection of 39th Street and Second Avenue. In the previous 12 months there have been a total of 16 demolition…
Gary Barnett’s Extell Development, on January 7, received a permit for construction of a 541,428-square-foot hotel building with 1,350 rooms at 740 Eighth Avenue in Times Square. The owner representative in the filing was David Rothstein of Extell. Back in June of 2020 the developer filed plans for a 164-foot tall, 10-story, 194,552-square-foot office building at the site. However, those plans have now been altered…
Khosrow Soleimanzadeh, on January 6, filed a permit application for construction of a 24-unit, 23,947-square-foot mixed-use building at 32-53 101st Street in North Corona, Queens. The plans are one of five new building plans filed in North Corona in the previous 12 months. These plans called for the construction of the most dwelling units of any of the plans during that span, and were the…
Geraldo Zefi through the company Geri Z Development LLC, on January 7, filed a permit application for construction of a 29-unit, 15,679-square-foot residential building at 261 Bedford Park Boulevard in Bedford Park, Bronx. The plans are one of 14 new building plans filed in Bedford Park in the previous 12 months. The 14 plans combined call for the construction of 680 new dwelling units in…
Facebook, on January 7, filed plans for $75.8 million of work at 415 Tenth Avenue, known as 50 Hudson Yards, in Hudson Yards. The building is owned by Related Companies. In late 2019, Facebook confirmed that it would be leasing more than 1.5 million square feet of office space across 30 floors and three buildings at Hudson Yards: 1.2 million square feet in 50 Hudson…
