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Huge New Tower Across from City Hall Park
The five-story building at 265 Broadway (between Chambers and Warren) is a goner. Take it away, YIMBY:
Roe Corporation filed plans yesterday for a 42-story, mixed-use building at 265 Broadway [….] The 510-foot-tall tower would hold an 80-room hotel in the first 12 floors and 38 spacious condominiums in the remaining 30 stories. The hotel would fill 38,139 square feet of commercial space, and the apartments would occupy 92,671 square feet of residential space, meaning that typical units would measure roughly 2,438 square feet. Most of the apartments would be full-floor units or duplexes, and the top three floors would host a triplex penthouse. […] The hotel would have a lounge, lobby, garden and offices on the ground floor, followed by a restaurant and kitchen on the second floor.
The architect is Gene Kaufman, who has been responsible for a huge number of the crappy hotels recently built in Manhattan. Let’s hope he’s in an upscale frame on mind on this project.
It joins four other residential projects underway on the perimeter of City Hall Park: Two are new buildings on the Park Row side (1 Beekman and 23 Park Row, respectively pictured below), and two are conversions (49-51 Chambers and the top part of the Woolworth Building).
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Kaufman has indeed been responsible for a great many crappy hotels all over the city, BUT (and I am an eternal optimist), i would hope that the design for this particular project will be far better than what he usually produces, since it will hold 30 very high end full floor luxury Condominiums, and presumably, the building should look good enough to match the prices he hopes to get. Let’s hope so.
I wonder what that will do to 270 Broadway? Will it cover all those windows, especially that penthouses double floor window?
Kaufman is a hack, and the only thing approaching a design that surpasses his airport hotel look is the Viceroy. And I would like someone to chime in about 270 Broadway. How could apartments have been sold with no guarantee of keeping the lot line windows? Whole sections of the bottom of the building (which I think are rentals) would be wiped out.
The 8-15th floor condos have lot line windows on the South side, and are largely hallways, utilities etc.
I’m not sure about the upper floors – perhaps the new building will be set back. Can anyone confirm?
If not, the penthouse will need a re-think…
http://www.stevenharrisarchitects.com/projects/TriBeCa-Penthouse
Owners with lot line windows are always at risk of losing them. Light and view are not guaranteed and anyone purchasing a condo unit without knowing that has a poor lawyer.
I watched the 2 story window put in place, and have envied it. I just can’t imagine they went to such effort with knowledge it could be lost. I know lot lines are always a risk, but I had assumed the developer had bought the air rights next door.