Designed by architects Cook + Fox (The Lucida and Bank of America Tower), a planned 17-story, 350,000-square-foot office building could become Brooklyn’s first LEED Gold-certified commercial office tower. The tower, part of the larger City Point development in downtown Brooklyn, is a joint venture between Acadia Realty Trust, MacFarlane Partners, P/A Associates, Washington Square Partners and Rose Associates, is a smaller version of a much larger tower that had been proposed for the same site. CIty Point will also include 525,000 square feet of retail space, as well as a 900,000-square-foot residential component that will also include affordable units. Earlier this week, the development team named Cushman & Wakefield as the office tower’s exclusive leasing agent.
October 22nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedCook + Fox
Final Asking Rents at LEED Platinum Bank of America Tower Hit $185/SF
Hedge fund HBK Investments, which last summer signed on for LEED Platinum hopeful Bank of America Tower’s 40th floor at $135 per square foot, has officially terminated its commitment for 12,000 square feet of that space. The Dallas-based firm will still retain 24,000 square feet on the 40th floor and the Dursts will now seek to lease the freshly freed space for an incredible $185 per square foot. The only space in the building that remains in addition to HBK’s former space is 30,000 square feet on the 37th floor, where the Dursts are asking the same rent; the family will consider partitioning either space into blocks for smaller tenants. According to Eric Engelhardt, one of Durst’s vice presidents for leasing, “[t]here is a greater universe of smaller tenants looking for high end space.”
August 20th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Rough Tuesday for Green Buildings in Midtown
Yesterday was not a good day to be a green building under construction in Midtown. First, Steve Cuozzo reported in the Post that Macklowe Properties’ 510 Madison Avenue, which is currently pursuing a LEED Gold rating from USGBC, has received a partial stop-work order from the Department of Buildings. Later in the morning, a 5 ‘ by 13′ panel of glass fell from the 51st floor of Cook + Fox’s LEED Platinum hopeful Bank of America Tower. The panel landed on sidewalk bridging across 42nd Street (where the former Verizon Building continues to undergo a number of green retrofits), shattering and sending one person to Bellevue. Tishman Construction is serving as the construction manager for both of the projects
August 12th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Gore Finalizes 5500 s/f Lease at Bank of America Tower
The New York Observer reported earlier today that Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management firm has finalized its lease for 5500 square feet on the 48th floor of the Durst Organization’s Bank of America Tower, which expects to receive the first-ever LEED Platinum rating for a commercial high-rise from USGBC. Asking rents at the Midtown tower, which was designed by Cook + Fox, had been hovering around $185/square foot; it’s unclear how much Gore’s firm agreed to pay for the space, but as of last July, this was the asking price for the only two remaining floors in the building.
May 27th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Cook + Fox to Perform Green Makeover at “Disturbing” 375 Pearl Street
375 Pearl Street stands at the base of the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge and has been primarily a telephone switching center, most recently for Verizon, since it opened in 1975 to uniformly negative architectural reviews. (Paul Goldberger of the New York Times called the tower “disturbing.”) Earlier this week, renderings for a comprehensive, LEED-certified makeover of the 1.3 million-square-foot building, designed by Richard Cook of Cook + Fox, were unveiled. The $350 million rehab, which was reported by Steve Cuozzo of the New York Post yesterday, comes on the heels of Verizon’s $172 million sale of most of the building to Taconic Investment Partners (which actually purchased a condominium interest in the tower, as Verizon will retain the 8th through 10th floors). Cook’s design calls for the stripping of all exterior limestone off the tower and the installation of an efficient glass curtain wall.
May 14th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Thoughts on The Lucida & Cook + Fox’ Platinum Offices: gbNYC Interviews Rick Cook
gbNYC was thrilled to have the opportunity to recently chat with Rick Cook of Cook + Fox Architects about one of his firm’s green projects- The Lucida- which is currently seeking LEED certification on the corner of East 85th Street and Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side. The project touts itself as the first residential condominium project in the neighborhood to seek a LEED rating, which is an important first given that The Brompton and The Laurel have since joined the local green chase. Mr. Cook spoke to us about specific green features at The Lucida- from its hybrid wall window system to blast-furnace concrete transfer slab- and also offered thoughts on his firm’s office space and the LEED system generally.
March 19th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Gore Scores 48th Floor at Bank of America Tower
Back in September, we noted a report in Crain’s that Al Gore’s investment firm, Generation Investment Management LLP, was looking for LEED-certified office space in New York City. Today, Generation announced that it has secured a 5,000-square-foot lease on the 48th floor of the Durst Organization’s Bank of America Tower, which expects to receive the [...]
November 14th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Cook + Fox Architects’ Platinum Office Space in Chelsea
Cook + Fox Architects’ 12,000 square foot office space at the former Simpson Crawford Simpson department store in Chelsea is one of four New York City office spaces that have been certified to date under the LEED for Commercial Interiors (“LEED-CI”) rating system (the other three belong to Herman Miller, Dagher Engineering, and Gensler). The [...]
November 2nd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued