520 West 41st Street

520 West 41st Street
General information
Status Postponed
Type Hotel, Residential
Location Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States
Estimated completion 2020
Height
Roof 335 m
Technical details
Floor count 106
Floor area 1,685,000 sq ft (156,500 m2)

520 West 41st Street was a proposed 106-story supertall skyscraper. It would have been located in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. The building would have surpass all other skyscrapers on the island by floor-count. Upon completion, it would either have been the fifth or sixth tallest building in New York.

History

The development was one of many allowed by rezoning of the Special Hudson Yards District in 2005.[1] Other projects include the Hudson Yards redevelopment by Related.

Early reports indicated the site would host two distinct towers of differing heights. Later, the plans for the site were changed to two sixty-story towers connected horizontally at the roof, designed by Oppenheimer Architecture.[2] Current plans, first released in July 2014, call for a single tower.[3] Silverstein reportedly paid $100 million for the construction site, and entered into contract with a Mercedes Benz dealership, then the owner, in 2011.[4] As of July 2015, work appears to have begun on the project site, with the dealership undergoing demolition.[5] However, despite the activity at the site, no plans for the building have been filed with the city.[5]

Construction was tentatively scheduled to begin in 2017, and was expected to conclude in 2020.[6] Although the development neighbors other structures such as the Silver Towers and Sky, the building faced some opposition from residents in the community, who requested the building's height be reduced.[7]

Usage

The building will include 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of ground-level retail space, 175,000 square feet (16,300 m2) of office space. It will also include hotel rooms and 1400 apartments.[8] Of the 1400 planned apartments, 280 will be designated as affordable.[6] If completed as planned, the building will contain more apartments than all other super tall buildings in New York City combined, as most super tall developments, such as One57, 111 West 57th Street, and 432 Park Avenue, tend to contain relatively few expensive apartments.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Rezoning". Hudson Yards Development Corporation. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Budin, Jeremiah (19 May 2014). "What Silverstein's Double Towers Could Have Looked Like". Curbed. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Dailey, Jessica (1 July 2015). "Silverstein Is Bringing This 1,100-Foot Tower to the West Side". Curbed. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Geiger, Daniel (29 January 2015). "Silverstein pays $100M for site of future 1K-foot tower". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 Rosenberg, Zoe (15 July 2015). "Demo Signals Start of Work on 1,100-Foot Midtown Tower". Curbed. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 Greene, Leonard (2 July 2014). "Larry Silverstein to build city’s tallest apartment tower". The New York Post. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Neighbors: Silverstein's West Side Mystery Project Is Too Tall". Curbed. 12 May 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Revealed: 520 West 41st Street". YIMBY. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

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