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Tehila Spigel, on December 10, filed a permit application for construction of a 62-unit, 47,213-square-foot mixed-use building at 161 Lenox Road in Flatbush, Brooklyn. These are the seventh new building plans filed in the neighborhood this year. The plans are tied for the most dwelling units in Flatbush this year. The plans call for the construction of a 74-foot-tall, nine-story building and were filed with…

Solomon Schwimmer of Twin Group, on December 10, filed a permit application for construction of a 46-unit, 31,580-square-foot residential building at 527 Grand Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. These are the 13th new building plans filed in the neighborhood this year. The plans call for the fifth most dwelling units in Crown Heights this year. The plans call for the construction of a 94-foot-tall, nine-story…

SK Development, on December 13, filed a permit application for the demolition of a building at 182 Spring Street in Soho. Scott Shnay, who is a principal along with his father Abe at SK Development, filed the plans. Madison Realty Capital purchased the parcel, along with 190 Spring Street, 188 Spring Street, and 186 Spring Street from Opal Properties for $28 million late last summer. On…

Gzim Lajqi of Stellar Management, on December 13, filed a permit application for the demolition of an 18,705-square-foot building with commercial space and five dwelling units at 126 Lafayette Street in Little Italy. Gzim Lajqi is listed as the agent on the filing. According to city records, the parcel has been owned by the entity Yee Tai Enterprises Corp. since the early 1980s. The three-story,…

Tolib Mansurov, on December 13, was given a permit for construction of a 56-unit, 58,893-square-foot mixed-use building at 408 Lefferts Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The plans were one of 66 new building plans filed in the neighborhood in 2020. This year, for comparison, there have been 35 plans filed. The 2020 plans combined call for the construction of 839 units, while the 2021 plans…

Oxford Properties Group and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, on December 10, filed plans for two alteration projects totaling $10.6 million of work on two terraces at 550 Washington Street in Soho, Manhattan. The plans are part of the redevelopment of St. John’s Terminal as part of Google’s Hudson Square campus. Google announced in September that it would buy the building for $2.1 billion….

New York City School Construction Authority, on December 10, filed plans for an $8.9 million rehabilitation of a building’s exterior at 488 Beach 66th Street in Arverne, Queens. The plans call for work on the outside of the 65-foot-tall, six-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number Q00642603. The project is described in the filing as: Selective…

Avery Hall, on December 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 193-unit, 161,490-square-foot mixed-use building at 653 Union Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Alexander Cutrona, development manager at Avery Hall, filed the plans. The property was acquired for $29.8 million on November 14, 2019. About seven months prior, The Real Deal reported that the developer was gearing up to construct a 17-story building at…

Monadnock Development, on December 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 301-unit, 265,987-square-foot mixed-use building at 155 3rd Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Frank Dubinsky, COO at the company, filed the plans. Earlier this year reports circulated that the developer was planning to construct a 100,000-square-foot, mixed-use development at 300 Huntington Street in the neighborhood. The developer did not immediately respond to a request…

Spaxel, on December 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 128-unit, 72,017-square-foot residential building at 1824 Anthony Avenue in Mount Hope, the Bronx. Bimi Selimaj, director of field operations at Spaxel, filed the plans. The email used by the filing representative was linked to Propco Holdings. The developer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The estimated job cost listed is…

Empire State Realty Trust, on December 8, filed plans for a $7 million renovation and build-out of the cellar, ground floor and second floor of the Empire State Building at 350 Fifth Avenue in Garment District, Manhattan. This is work to create a new, three-level store in the landmarked skyscraper. The plans for the space were disclosed just over a year ago, when The Real…

Vijay Gogia, on December 10, filed a permit application for construction of an 84-unit, 62,633-square-foot mixed-use building at 2481 Crotona Avenue in Belmont, the Bronx. The plans call for the construction of a 95-foot-tall, nine-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number X00640159. The project is described in the filing as: File herewith erection of nine-stories, mixed-use…

Thomas Anagnostopoulos, on December 10, filed a permit application for construction of a 20-unit, 25,836-square-foot mixed-use building at 31-06 24th Road in Astoria, Queens. There have been 29 new building plans filed in Astoria this year. The plans call for the construction of a 64-foot-tall, six-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number Q00617404. The development site…

Bais Shmuel Chabad, on December 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 21,215-square-foot community building at 1512 Union Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Rabbi Moshe Pinson filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 35-foot-tall, three-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number B00644691. The development site spans one tax lot. The…

Ben Zahler, on December 6, filed a permit application for construction of a 54-unit, 33,780-square-foot residential building at 2678 Creston Avenue in Fordham Manor, the Bronx. The plans call for the construction of the second-most dwelling units in the neighborhood this year. The plans call for the construction of an 80-foot-tall, eight-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under…

Zev Mayer of Skyrock NYC, on December 7, filed a permit application for construction of a 50-unit, 29,946-square-foot residential building at 1268 Shakespeare Avenue in Highbridge, the Bronx. Zev Mayer has now filed plans for at least four new building plans over the last several months. On September 20, the developer filed a permit application for construction of a 32-unit, 25,917-square-foot residential building at 708…

Two Trees, on December 7, filed a permit application for construction of a 41,970-square-foot utility building at 320 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Hale Everets, architect/development manager at Two Trees, filed the plans. The utility building is part of the developer’s megaproject to redevelop the Domino Sugar Factory along the Williamsburg waterfront. The larger plans include the Domino Park, the construction of four new buildings,…

New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development, on December 8, received a permit for construction of a 184-unit, 189,907-square-foot mixed-use building at 273 Snediker Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Rona Reodica of HPD filed the plans. The development site also has an alternate address of 496 Sutter Avenue. This year there have been 21 new building plans filed in Brownsville. For comparison, there were 17 new…