Chelsea site with 145K square feet of development rights pitched to hoteliers

140-144 West 28th Street and Andrew Scandalios of HFF
140-144 West 28th Street and Andrew Scandalios of HFF

An HFF team is marketing a 7,583-square-foot development site in Chelsea that’s aimed at hotel developers, according to marketing materials provided to The Real Deal. The plot, a parking lot located at 140-144 West 28th Street, includes 144,876 square feet of development rights.

The area, located between Sixth and Seventh avenues, is zoned for commercial use.

“But [it] is optimally located for hotel development given the site’s central Manhattan location,” according to the HFF materials.

Andrew Scandalios is leading the HFF team.

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“There are some investors thinking about the site for residential and [it’s] significantly more valuable as residential, but the highest and best use is as a hotel since it’s zoned for commercial use,” Scandalios told the New York Observer, which first reported the news.

Though residential use could earn up to $600 per square foot and hotel use could bring $330 per square foot, rezoning would be a lengthy process.

“We’re marketing it as commercial only,” Scandalios told the Observer.

Offers are currently being evaluated. If deal isn’t reached within a month, a bid deadline will be set in July. [NYO] —Zachary Kussin