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Developer and owner Atdhe Pilku, whose operates Pilku Construction Services, is moving forward with a rezoning request in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn before planning on constructing a 67,336-square-foot mixed-use office building at 150 Mill Street. The developer filed a land use application on August 15. An environmental assessment statement was filed back in June and the CEQR fee was paid in July. The…

On August 11, plans were filed for a $5 million project which aims to increase the unit count from 11 to 30 in a residential building at 13 Lexington Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The plans were filed by Charles Mcinnis. According to city records, the building was purchased by Myron Siegel in the late 1984. Siegel filed plans with the city’s DOB in the…

Boston Properties, on August 12, filed plans for a $3.1 million rehabilitation of three floors of an office building at 599 Lexington Avenue in the Plaza District, Manhattan. The plans came two days after the developer filed plans for a $14.5 million rehab of the same three floors of the building. The plans call for work on floors 10 through 12 of the 650-foot-tall, 47-story…

The New York Society Library, on August 12, filed plans for a $4.2 million rehabilitation of multiple floors at 53 East 79th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The plans also indicate there will be a horizontal enlargement on the ground floor and cellar of the building. The library was founded in 1754, and is the oldest library in the city, according to…

Mason Chen, on August 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 114-unit, 82,365-square-foot mixed-use building with 92 hotel rooms and 22 apartments, at 25-10 42nd Road in Long Island City, Queens. Earlier this year, Judy Chang through the company Royal One Real Estate II, LLC, filed very similar plans which called for the construction of an 82,941-square-foot building with 96 hotel rooms and…

Solow Building Company, on August 11, filed three permit applications for the demolition of three buildings at 6 West 57th Street, 10 West 57th Street, and 14 West 57th Street in the Plaza District. The developer had originally filed plans to demolish 10 West 57th Street and 14 West 57th Street. However, neither plan was every permitted and both are currently marked as “job on…

PincusCo is taking a look back at some of the most significant new building plans to receive construction permits in July and August. At least seven plans calling for new buildings that are 20,000 square feet or greater in size received construction permits during the month and a half period. The four largest plans totaled just shy of one million square feet of new construction…

Matthew Schwartz’s Domain Companies, on August 11, filed a permit application for the demolition of a 41,050-square-foot building at 545 Sackett Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The property was acquired for $26.5 million on December 15, 2017. The developer in January 2020 signed a loan agreement with Laurence Gottlieb’s Fundamental Advisors valued at $32 million for the property. The developer also purchased 420 Carroll Street, and…

GHC Development and Clarion Partners, on August 10, filed plans for a $37.9 million project that includes adding restaurant space to two floors at 123 Greenwich Street, formerly the American Stock Exchange, in the Financial District, Manhattan. Allan Fried’s GHC originally purchased the building, along with 22 Thames Street, for $65 million in 2011. After rezoning 22 Thames, the building was sold in 2012 for…

Boston Properties, on August 10, filed plans for a $14.5 million rehabilitation of three floors of an office building at 599 Lexington Avenue in the Plaza District, Manhattan. The plans call for work on floors 10 through 12 of the 650-foot-tall, 47-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00559588. The project is described in the filing…

New York City School Construction Authority, on August 10, filed a permit application for a $6 million rehabilitation of a high school at 16 Clarkson Street in Soho. The plans call for work on floors one through five, the basement, and roof of the 83-foot tall, five-story building. The project is described in the filings as: replacement of slab in auditorium and adjacent spaces, window…

Walt Disney Company, on August 11, filed plans for a $6.3 million build-out to three floors in conjunction with the construction of its new headquarters at 310 Hudson Street in Hudson Square. The plans call for work on floors four through six of the 19-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00573154. The project is described…

Rabsky Group, on August 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 225-unit, 258,200-square-foot mixed-use building at 69 Adams Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Rafael Rabinowitz filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 280-foot-tall, 26-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number B00565465. Below are zoning diagrams from the filing. The project is…

Binyamin Beitel’s Beitel Group, on August 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 96-unit, 73,360-square-foot residential building at 261 Grand Concourse in Mott Haven, the Bronx. The plans call for the construction of a 121-foot-tall, 12-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number X00561795. The development site spans one tax lot. The project is described…

Helm Equities, on August 9, filed a permit application for the demolition of a retail building at 1925 Flatbush Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Helm Equities is a subsidiary of JEMB Realty run by Ayal Horovits and partner David Escava, who filed the plans. The building is the former location of the now-closed After Dark Sports Bar and Lounge, which occupied the 3,100-square-foot building. The…

Simranjeet Singh through the company Shalbro Construction Group, on August 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 17-unit, 12,498-square-foot mixed-use building at 166-11 91st Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The plans call for the construction of a 74-foot-tall, seven-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number Q00554634. Below are zoning diagrams for the development. The project…

Walt Disney Company, on August 9, filed two plans for a total of $37 million of build-out work in conjunction with the construction of their new headquarters at 310 Hudson Street in Hudson Square. Roughly two years ago, Disney filed new building plans calling for the construction of a 290-foot tall, 19-story, 852,912-square-foot building at the site. The plans were permitted earlier this year. The…

On August 9, plans were filed for a $7 million rehab of a mixed-use office building at 150 East 45th Street in Grand Central, Manhattan. Laura Ammirati of Resolution Real Estate filed the plans. An affiliate of HAB Bank, formerly known as Habib American Bank, purchased the building in April of 2020 for $28.3 million from the Children’s Aid Society. The building was originally constructed…

L+M Development Partners, on August 5, filed two permit applications for construction of an 88-unit, 73,784-square-foot residential building at 380 Chester Street and an 84-unit, 81,603-square-foot residential building at 763 Thomas South Boyland Street, both in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. David Dishy, president of development at L+M Development, filed the plans. The first plans call for the construction of an 85-foot-tall, eight-story building at…

Azimuth Development Group, on July 28, submitted a condominium plan for 30 residential units and one commercial unit at 11-13 West 116th Street in Central Harlem, Manhattan. The condo plan, CD2102193, has a sellout price of $43.2 million with the New York State Attorney General. Hugo Subotovsky is listed as the managing member. In December of 2017, Guido Subotovsky, the founder and president of Azimuth,…