SL Green, on January 21, was given a permit for a $8.1 million rehabilitation of the sub-cellar of an office building at 1 Madison Avenue in Flatiron. The plans were filed in conjunction with a $128 million project which aims to nearly double the size of the building from 14 to 26 floors. The plans, pre-filed on April 24, 2020 by John Krush, call for…
Vornado Realty Trust, on January 22, was given a permit for a $5.9 million rehabilitation of multiple floors at 2 Penn Plaza in Penn Plaza. The plans, pre-filed on July 21, 2020 by David Bellman, call for a rehab of floors three through 12 and 14 through 31 of the 408-foot tall, 31-story, building. The project is described in the filings as: filing herewith for…
Thor Equities, on January 20, was given a permit for construction of a 310,967-square-foot warehouse at 270 Richard Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Melissa Gliatta, executive vice president of Thor Equities, filed the plans. According to reports, the warehouse will be occupied by Amazon, which signed a 20-year lease for the location in November. The plans, pre-filed on September 3, 2019, call for the construction…
Prologis, on January 19, was given a permit for a $6.5 million project which will renovate and change the use of a 128,500-square-foot warehouse for tenant City Harvest at 150 52nd Street in Sunset Park. The plans, pre-filed on March 12, 2020, call for no change in size but a change in use of the 25-foot tall, two-story building. The project is described in the…
Andrew Chung’s Innovo Property Group, on January 20, was given permits for the demolition of two buildings at 28-90 H Review Avenue and 28-90 G Review Avenue in Long Island City. The developer purchased the four-acre 28-90 Review Avenue site from JBL Asset Management for $34.1 million in June of 2020. The first plans, pre-filed on May 20, 2020, call for the demolition of a…
Piedmont Office Realty Trust, on January 20, was given a permit for a $13.5 million rehabilitation of four floors of 60 Broad Street in the Financial District. Steven Martinek, senior property manager at Piedmont Office Realty Trust, filed the plans. The plans, pre-filed on June 18, 2020, call for a rehab of floors seven through 10 of the 495-foot tall, 38-story building. The project is…
Boston Properties, on January 20, formally completed two rehabilitation projects, totaling $7.5 million, of the former Citicorp Center at 601 Lexington Avenue in Plaza District. Robert Schubert, senior VP of construction for Boston Properties, filed both of the plans. The first plans, pre-filed on June 12, 2019, call for a rehab of floors 36 and 37 of the 810-foot tall, 59-story building. The project is…
New York City School Construction Authority, on January 19, filed a permit application for a $5.5 million project to replace boilers in a school building at 183 South 3rd Street in Williamsburg. The plans call for work on the cellar, roof, and all floors of the 78-foot tall, five-story building. The project is described in the filings as: K050-replacement of boilers with new self contained…
Tishman Speyer, on January 20, was given a permit for a $3.1 million rehabilitation of a building at 620 Fifth Avenue, part of the Rockefeller Center, in Plaza District. The plans, pre-filed on December 23, 2020, call for a rehab of the cellar and sub-cellar of the 126-foot tall, nine-story building. The project is described in the filings as: filed herewith for interior renovations. Modify…
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is moving forward with plans to construct a 232-unit mixed-use development located at 305, 207, and 309 Mother Gaston Boulevard, 56-82 Christopher Avenue, and 97-119 Glenmore Avenue in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project sponsor is Brisa Builders. According to the filing, the building will be 100 percent affordable. In total, it will be…
Ramani Mariappan through the company 860 Investors LLC, on January 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 55-unit, 34,295-square-foot residential building at 3082 Villa Avenue in Riverdale, the Bronx. The plans call for the construction of a 74-foot tall, eight-story residential building. The project is described in the filings as: proposed new eight-story with cellar residential building. Mechanical, structural, plumbing, sprinkler, fire alarm…
Kaushik Patel, on January 15, was given a permit for construction of a 50-key, 18,135-square-foot hotel at 427 East 188th Street in Tremont. The plans, pre-filed on August 2, 2019, call for the construction of a 63-foot tall, six-story hotel. The project is described in the filings as: proposed a six-story with cellar commercial new building for hotel and community facility use. The building’s cellar…
Stagg Goup, on January 14, was given a permit for construction of a 77-unit, 45,823-square-foot residential building at 6375 Broadway in Riverdale. Jay Martino, senior vice president of construction at Stagg Group, filed the plans. The plans, pre-filed on May 20, 2020, call for the construction of a 68-foot tall, seven-story residential building. The project is described in the filings as: erection of new seven-story…
SL Green, on January 14, formally completed a $21.7 million build-out of three floors of One Vanderbilt, located at 10 Vanderbilt Avenue in Grand Central. The 1,298,506-square-foot office building received its initial TCO in September of 2020 after several years of construction and decades of planning. Eric Bartels filed the plans. The plans, pre-filed on August 19, 2019, call for a build-out of floors six…
The Spence School, on January 15, was issued a temporary certificate of occupancy for construction of a 53,716-square-foot school building at 412 East 90th Street in Yorkville. The plans, pre-filed on December 7, 2016, call for the construction of a 85-foot tall, six-story, building. The time from pre-file to TCO was four years and one month. No project description was provided in the filing. The…
Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, on January 15, formally completed a $4 million rehabilitation of a Hostos Community College building at 500 Grand Concourse in Mott Haven. The plans, pre-filed on May 5, 2016, call for a rehab of floors one through five of the 65-foot tall, seven-story building. The project is described in the filings as: interior renovations and window replacement…
New York City School Construction Authority, on January 14, filed a permit application for a $3.5 million rehabilitation of a Bronx elementary school at 1000 East Tremont Avenue. The plans call for a rehab of the cellar, roof, and all floors of the 75-foot tall, four-story building. The project is described in the filings as: PS 6X – filing herewith for the roof replacement, exterior…
Notias Construction, Inc., on January 14, formally completed a $3.1 million rehabilitation of a residential building at 1815 Davidson Avenue in Highbridge, the Bronx. The plans were filed by Pierre Downing, who currently works as the VP of affordable housing at Monadnock Development The Mount Hope Housing Company owns the building. The plans, pre-filed on December 15, 2017, call for a rehab of the cellar,…
DWS Group, on January 12, filed a permit application for the demolition of the 174,804-square-foot office building, 405 Park Avenue in the Plaza District. Sandro Arbulu filed the application. DWS Group owns the building in partnership with MRP Realty. MRP Realty and Deutsche Bank Asset Management purchased the property on May 2, 2016, for $237.8 million. DWS was then created as a spinoff of Deutsche…
Eddie Yair’s Lay Assets, under 1775 Coney Island LLC, on January 12, filed a permit application for construction of a 75-unit, 59,559-square-foot mixed-use building at 1775 Coney Island Avenue in Midwood. Eddie Yair filed the application. The developer acquired the property from Henry A. Alpert’s Spartan Petroleum Corp for $4.5 million on November 17, 2020. At the time of purchase, PincusCo reported the parcel had…
