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Construction on Green Rentals at 200 West 72nd Street Moving Forward

Tue

May

by Stephen Del Percio

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Check out a few construction progress photos we snapped over the holiday weekend of Handel Architects' 200 West 72nd Street, which is slated to bring 196 luxury green rental apartments to the Upper West Side later on this year. The $200 million, 19-story project is seeking LEED Silver certification and will also feature 48,000 square feet of retail space across the tower's lower five floors, (17,000 of which is still available). Back in 2005, local preservationists failed in their efforts to landmark the Henry Kilburn-designed Colonial Club, which dated from 1892 and formerly occupied the site. You can get a pretty good flavor of what 200 West, as developer the Gotham Organization has dubbed the building, will look like from the construction photos below, including the tower's obtuse angular geometry and 22-foot glass storefronts.

200 West 72nd Street (gbNYC)

Green Space Abounds at Mount Hope Community Center in South Bronx

Tue

Aug

by Stephen Del Percio

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Designed by the Croxton Collaborative Architects, the Mount Hope Community Center in the South Bronx will offer a gymnasium, conference center, computer labs, classrooms and play areas at East 175th Street between Townsend and Walton Avenues when it opens sometime later this summer. The 4-story, 44,000-square-foot project will include a number of sustainable design features, though it does not appear that the project team is pursuing any third-party rating. Landscape contractor Plant Fantasies, a certified WBE (woman-owned business enterprise) is installing three levels of outdoor terrace space, including two green roofs, one of 3600 square feet, the other 900 square feet. The outdoor greenery was designed by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, which specified drought-resistant soil and shrubbery. The landscaping team also worked together on the Millenium Tower project (Handel Architects) in Battery Park City, which was one of the first residential buildings in Manhattan to earn a LEED Gold rating.

Monday LEEDoff: Handel Architects' Millennium Tower Residences in Battery Park City

Mon

Apr

by Stephen Del Percio

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The 35-story Millennium Tower in Battery Park City ("BPC"), developed by Millennium Partners and completed last year, was one of the first residential high-rises to earn a LEED Gold rating in New York City (The Solaire & The Helena). The unassuming brick-and-aluminum-clad condominium building, designed by Handel Architects with Steven Winter Associates serving as green consultants, incorporates an honest commitment to cleaner water and air and lower energy costs. gbNYC recently discussed the building in the aftermath of its installation of the first microturbines in the city pursuant to the new rule which was enacted by Mayor Bloomberg last December.

Monday LEEDoff: Green Retail, Rentals Set for 72nd and Broadway

Mon

Jan

by Stephen Del Percio

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It appears that the Harsen House won’t be the only LEED-certified project that will rise along West 72nd Street. According to a report that appeared in Friday’s Real Deal, 200 West 72nd Street will seek an unspecified level of LEED certification for 196 luxury rental units and 48,000 square feet of retail space which the building will offer across its bottom 5 floors. The $200 million, 19-story tower, which was designed by Handel Architects and is being developed by the Gotham Organization, will rise on the southwest corner of 72nd and Broadway and should be completed sometime in 2009; leasing for the apartments will open early next year. The Real Deal reports that Gotham is “pretty close” to inking three tenants for the retail space, which ranges in price from $100 per square foot on the lower sub-ground floors to $550 per square foot on street level.