Ziel Feldman’s HFZ plans hotel-condo tower on Chelsea site

Developer says project will be inspired by One Beacon Court

From left: Ziel Feldman, 518 West 18th Street and One Beacon Court
From left: Ziel Feldman, 518 West 18th Street and One Beacon Court

Ziel Feldman’s HFZ Capital Group plans to build an 800,000-square-foot West Chelsea mixed-use tower in the vein of One Beacon Court. The developer is in contract to pay a whopping $800 million-plus for the block-long site at 518 West 18th Street, as The Real Deal first reported in November.

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The tower could rise as high as 400 feet and will be “architecturally significant,” Feldman told the New York Daily News. There will be ground-floor retail, a brand-name hotel in the middle and condominiums above it, he said.

Feldman said One Beacon, the 55-story, Cesar Pelli-designed mixed-use building at 151 East 58th Street, will inspire the design. The new tower would have a similar courtyard. [NYDN]Mark Maurer