Developers Douglas Durst and Harold Fetner are set to break ground on a $350 million skyscraper on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 30th Street, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Durst Fetner partnership will begin construction within a year, as they conclude negotiations with Pelli Clarke Pelli, the team behind another high-profile planned Midtown tower, 15 Penn Plaza. Durst Fetner Residential, which closed on the construction in late December 2010, was angling to buy the site for six years, sources say. [more]
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The City Council Land Use Committee voted today in favor of Vornado’s roughly 1,200-foot, Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed 15 Penn Plaza, despite protests from Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin that it would mar the city’s skyline, ArchPaper reported. More important than the skyline argument at the hearing was the issue of who would build 15 Penn Plaza. Before today’s vote, Vornado offered a last-minute plan, calling for at least 15 percent of the construction work to be done by women- and minority-owned business enterprises. Though the council members voted 19-1 for the project, there were still some objections over the fact that the council does not use its limited leverage over such projects to extract more concessions early on regarding who is doing the construction, rather than at the very end, when it is too late to have an impact on the project. [ArchPaper]
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Battery Park City’s Visionaire receives Platinum LEED certification: The
Visionaire, the Albanese Organization’s latest green residential
development in Battery Park City, has received Platinum LEED
certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the only
LEED Platinum condominium on the East Coast. The 35-story, 247-unit
building was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and construction
was completed last fall. It features a rooftop garden that harvests
rainwater for irrigation of the garden, a central heating and cooling
system powered by natural gas, and solar panels which harvest a portion
of the building’s electric output. TRD [more]
