More units sold at Cassa condo-hotel

From left: developer Solly Assa, rendering of Cassa hotel and residences

At the Cassa hotel and residences at 70 West 45th Street, 17 of the 57 residential units have already been sold, according to developer Solly Assa of Assa Properties. Five or six buyers have bought more than one unit, with plans to combine them; one buyer purchased four units, and two other buyers bought three each. Assa said he anticipated buyers’ plans to combine the units to make larger apartments and designed the building with that type of flexibility in mind. He said the concrete exterior, with wider and skinnier windows along the façade, was designed to accommodate the combined duplexes and triplexes desired by his clients. Construction on Cassa has not yet been completed, but the building is keeping pace so far with its $90 million construction budget. [NYT]