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Vicki Zhi Saali files plans for 118-unit building in Astoria

Vicki Zhi Saali, on August 17, filed plans to convert a commercial building to a 118-unit residential building at 30-55 Vernon Boulevard in Astoria, Queens. The plans call for an increase in the size of the building from a 22-foot tall, two-story building with no dwelling units to a 90-foot tall, nine-story building with 118 dwelling units. This was filed with the New York City…

Peak Capital files to rehab 10 units in Gramercy rental acquired through $24.3M purchase

Peak Capital Advisors on August 18, filed plans for a $238,700 rehab of 10 apartments in a building at 24-unit walkup at 233 East 21st Street in Gramercy, Manhattan. David Gomez co-founder and principal of Peak Capital Advisors, filed the plans. The plans call for a rehab of the 63-foot-tall, six-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job…

Alchemy Ventures files to rehab 9 units following $32M West Village walkup purchase

Alchemy Ventures on August 16, filed plans for a $729,400 rehab of a building at 142 West 4th Street in West Village, Manhattan. Samuel Kooris, principal and co-founder of Alchemy Ventures, filed the plans. Another general contracting plan for other units totaling $563,550 was filed earlier in the year. The plan call for a rehab of the 70-foot-tall, six-story building and were filed with the…

Morgan Stanley files plans for a $83.2M renovation at hq in Times Square.

The financial institution Morgan Stanley, on August 16, filed plans for a $83.2 million of renovation work of its global headquarters at 1585 Broadway in Times Square, Manhattan. Amy Rampolla, facilities manager at Morgan Stanley, filed the plans. The plans call for work on floors two and eight of the 685-foot-tall, 42-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under…

Plans filed for construction of a 57,557-square-foot commercial building in Sheepshead Bay

Citiscape Consulting, on August 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 57,557-square-foot building at 2554 East 16th Street, also known as 1523 Avenue Z, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The ownership of the parcel was not clear. The most recent city records as of 2020 indicate Babis Krasanakis owned the parcel, but the ownership entity, 1401 Bay, LLC, was not on the Department of…

City files plans for construction of a 100,000-sf building at school in Springfield Gardens

The New York City School Construction Authority on August 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 100,000-square-foot school building at 129-33 155th Street, also known as 156-49 132nd Avenue, in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Joseph Scalisi filed the plans. The estimated job cost is $70 million. The city owns the land which is a city block on which sits the August Martin High School….

Century Development Group plans 40-units in LIC, adjacent to its 119-unit project

Century Development Group, on August 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 40-unit building at 45-28 21st Street in Long Island City, Queens. George Xu, founder of the firm, filed the plans. The plans do not yet disclose the square feet of the building. These new plans are on a parcel adjacent to a planned 119-unit residential project filed earlier this month just…

Xiaohong Zhao seeks rezoning for 15K sf mixed-use project in Auburndale

Xiaohong “Shannon” Zhao of Ameriland Brook through the entity Prince St 606 LLC, filed an application for a zoning change in an effort to build a 14,863-square-foot mixed-use commercial building at 189-04 Northern Boulevard in Auburndale, Queens. Zhao previously filed plans for the project, with a slightly smaller zoning floor area, in June 2020. This application would not only allow her project to go forward,…

Morgan Stanley fund completes demo of 24,716 sf warehouse at JFK

An affiliate of the Morgan Stanley Prime Property Fund, on August 12, completed the demolition of a 24,716-square-foot warehouse at 182-11 150th Road adjacent to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens. The plans, pre-filed on December 10, 2021, called for the demolition of a building. The project is described in the filings as: full demolition of one-story structure, using hand held and mechanical means…

Ascendant Neighborhood Development files plans for 25K transitional housing building in East Harlem

The nonprofit housing developer Ascendant Neighborhood Development, on August 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 25,476-square-foot building at 242-244 East 106th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. Christopher Cirillo, executive director and president of Ascendant, filed the plans. The plan call for the construction of a 99-foot-tall, 10-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number…

$5.6M build-out planned for early childhood center in Ridgewood

Steven Sasson of the discount retailer ABC Superstore, on August 12, filed plans for a $5.6 million build-out of a building at 63-57 Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, Queens. The plans call for a rehab of the 50-foot-tall, two-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number Q00764429. The project is described in the filing as: Interior fit…

$8.9M rehab for First Republic filed at 601W’s Hudson Yards building

A building manager for 601W Companies’s 460 West 34th Street, on August 12, filed plans for an $8.9 million rehab of two floors of the building located in Hudson Yards, Manhattan. The filing representative was Michelle Sampson of the brokerage and management company JLL. The plans call for a rehab of two floors in the 200-foot-tall, 19-story building and were filed with the New York…

60-unit development planned in Sheepshead Bay

Glenn Gubner through the entity 2510/18 C.I.A L.L.C. seeks to build a 61,637-square-foot mixed-use building with 60 residential units including affordable apartments at a midblock parcel with the address 2510 Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The rezoning would affect neighboring parcels as well, bringing as many as 192 new dwelling units to the block including the 60 or 61 that are envisioned in…

Emmut Properties submits 143-unit condo plan at former hotel bought for $79.8M in UWS

Emmut Properties submitted a 143-unit condominium plan with the New York State Attorney General’s office to convert the former hotel at 45 West 81st Street on the Upper West Side that it bought for $79.8 million into residential condominiums. The plans were submitted August 5 and listed company president John Young as principal. The filing did not include an initial sellout price. Emmut Properties through…

Joseph Atarian plans 112-unit project in Bed-Stuy

Joseph Atarian through the entity AA Atlantic LLC seeks to rezone a portion of a city block in Bedford-Stuyvesant to facilitate the construction of a 14-story mixed-use building with 112 residential units at 1289 Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He is seeking to build the structure on six tax lots he acquired starting in 2007. The plans were initially submitted several years ago, but have…

Brisa Builders files plans for a 57-unit building in Far Rockaway

Brisa Builders, through its representative Ericka Keller-Wala, on August 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 57-unit, 56,134-square-foot building at 13-02 Nameoke Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens. 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 Q00791713. The project is described in the filing as: Erect 9-story…

Lattire Construction files plans for 76,673-sf mixed-use building in Pelham Parkway

Lattire Construction, through its representative Matthew Gross, on August 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 76,673-square-foot mixed-use building at 3118 Webster Avenue in Pelham Parkway, Bronx. The filing did not specify the number of residential units. The plans call for the construction of an 11-story mixed-use building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number X00791429….

Century Development Group files plans for 119-unit mixed-use building in LIC

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 files plans for 91-unit resi building in Forest Hills

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 to demolish 4 buildings on Second Avenue in Murray Hill

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…