BIG should take notes on how to design a contextual tiered design.
Everything about this is great!
Great article by YIMBY.
This building is going to be gorgeous. However, I’d like to see this heinous brick pos on 16th and Union Sq East come down. I wonder if it’s coops or rent-regulated.
Is anything happening with this project, or has it stalled?
Godot is in the house!
Tishman Realty Files Plans 132K SF Union Square Project (therealdeal.com)
Hasta La vista, mierda!
Thank God. This project will be magnificent. Will probably be the most expensive building ever constructed in the Union Square area.
I’ve always been amazed that the McD and the grimy eyesore next to it on Union Sq W have not been redeveloped.
Oh yeah, those buildings are terrible. And such prime locations. Hope that crap gets redeveloped.
I think 35 is a NYU dorm, dont recall though
Couldn’t agree more. I have to look at those eyesores daily. The day can’t come soon enough.
A 150-unit residential project proposed almost three years ago for Union Square may now include a third of the number of apartments, records show.
Midtown-based developer Tishman Realty is seeking approval from the city in order to construct a 21-story mixed-used building that would contain between 40 and 55 residential units at 110 E. 16th St., according to an application filed with the Department of City Planning Wednesday.
The proposed project would span a total floor area of 79,822 square feet, of which 76,822 square feet would be residential space, while 2,310 square feet would be commercial and 690 square feet would be used as a community facility. The original proposal would have included a total of 132,000 square feet, Crain’s reported in 2023, although how much of that would have been residential versus commercial space is unclear. It would also include 18 parking spaces — up from the 11 that were proposed in the first iteration of the project in February 2023 — in order for Tishman to receive the special permit it is seeking from the city.
The site, between Union Square East and Irving Place, is currently home to a 9-story public parking facility, for which Tishman had filed demolition permits at the same time of its initial proposal, describing the garage as “an eyesore and environmental nuisance” on its website. It’s unclear whatever came of those demolition permits — the garage is still standing — or why the firm slashed the number of apartments it was planning to include in the project.
Unger, meanwhile, also filed permits with the Department of Buildings last month for the new, revised structure. Those plans call for 52 dwelling units, with between two and four on each floor, plus terraces, as well as exercise, kids and storage rooms on the cellar level.
It’s also unclear if the apartments would be rentals or condos, but it’s likely they would be condos as the firm characterized the neighborhood as “one of New York’s most coveted, vibrant and undersupplied condo submarkets” on its website. Tishman acquired the property for $35 million in 2015, city records show.