Yeah, that still involved this iteration of the project, though before the current/first version was released, it’s from the older EAS, the project was downscaled.
I guess that Sedesco is seeking financing.
There are no dumpy buildings near this. This beautiful building separates Sedesco’s site from Vornado’s.
This is the only PoS. I think that it’s a retail condo owned by Vornado, but I don’t think that it can be razed and redeveloped because a new tower would block the balconies of the ugly highrise behind it.
I don’t think it’s actually connected (physically) to the apartment behind it, but it’s “apart” of the same lot, so either way, it couldn’t be demolished unless the apartment tower was also demo’ed.
But overall, I don’t think the developers are looking to make the parcel bigger (to make the project bigger) since it was already downsized. I think something that was listed in the EAS is what is holding up the project from moving forward even though I believe nothing was found that would’ve negatively affected the environment. It possibly has something to do with the transit improvements.
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Interesting. Yeah can’t wait for it to get going.
Unfortunate about the downsize though, this is one of my favorite designs on Billionaire’s Row and I would have loved it at 1,400 ft. It’s good at 1,100 too though.
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Maybe DoB site is undergoing maintenance right now because nothing is coming up beyond the below:
This is from ‘https://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/bispi00.jsp’
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Thanks. I put in 41, 43, 45, and 47, and nothing came up.
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Parts of NYC DOB BIS database are undergoing maintenance, but sites that do not have visible or filed documents to view are a result of them being made of up different lots that have not been merged within the database. It just doesn’t exist yet, a similar matter for other projects you’ve also been unable to find though their project address. The addresses aren’t wrong or missing, it’s just normally the issue of nothing being filed yet or viewable on public servers. 
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Thanks
Can someone post this? I’ve hit my free limit.
The most expensive home to go into contract in Manhattan last week was a Billionaires’ Row condo that finally found a buyer at $25 million off its initial asking price.
The 64th-floor unit in the Park Imperial at 230 West 56th Street, last asking $14.5 million, had been on and off the market since 2015 and was once listed for $39 million, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly report of signed contracts for Manhattan homes asking at least $4 million.
The full-floor unit spans nearly 8,000 square feet and has six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. It offers views in all directions and includes a large entertaining area comprising a living room, formal dining room with space for 12 guests and a sitting room with nearly 100 feet of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Central Park. Amenities in the building include doormen, a fitness center, a residents’ lounge and a terrace.
The second priciest home to go into contract last week was unit 3D at 50 West 66th Street, Extell Development’s new condo tower on the Upper West Side. The 3,900-square-foot apartment was asking $12 million, up from $10.75 million when the developer began marketing floor plans in the tower last summer. The 3,900-square-foot apartment has five bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms as well as a living room and family room that open onto an 880-square-foot terrace. Amenities in the building include an indoor lap pool, an outdoor saltwater pool with a jacuzzi, basketball and pickleball courts and a screening room.
Sellers in Manhattan’s luxury market have been offering more discounts to get deals done in recent weeks. The average discount last week was 12 percent, up from 10 percent the week prior. The year-to-date average is now 8 percent, up from 5 percent last year.
Of the 31 units that went into contract last week, 19 were condos, 10 were co-ops, another was a condop and just one was a townhouse. Combined, the 31 units asked $228.5 million, with an average asking price of $7.4 million and a median asking price of $6.5 million. The typical home spent 495 days on the market.
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Thanks. These units all sold at about $3k/sf, which shows that there’s very robust demand to support new development.
I hope that 41 W 57th starts soon. 57th has too many empty lots.
Vornado’s rush to raze Rizzoli and those other beautiful buildings has been a pernicious anathema. We’ve been stuck with an empty lot for almost a decade.
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Antonio:
Can you post this one too? I’m curious what the price per square foot was.
111 West 57th Street Penthouse Sold For $47.2M (therealdeal.com)
I hope so too, it would help fill in the big super-slender gap between 111 W 57 and 432 Park Ave
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So there will just be that little pretty brown building between this tower and whatever Vornado/LeFrak has planned next to the Solow Building. Perhaps those two lots and the little townhouse between will all come under the same owner to create an even larger project.
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I was wondering if either Sedesco or Vornado would try to buy that site. They should also buy the small hotel behind it and combine the Sedesco and Vornado sites.
That being said, this was a nice building. 57th is losing all of its charm. The biggest blow was delivered by So Low.
This hotel at 42 W 58th St is the last piece of the puzzle.
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I was literally just about to post that one of them should buy that hotel haha. If they combined the Sedesco & Vornado sites plus the hotel and the townhouse, there would be the opportunity to create a really enormous billionaire’s row tower.
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what would be possible here if…
the entire plots become a tower?
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