We've written about a number of Related's green development efforts here in Manhattan previously, including the Upper East Side's Brompton and the Superior Ink condos in the West Village. One Related project we haven't discussed in much detail, though, is the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Harrison condominiums. Located at 305 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street on the Upper West Side, the project is substantially complete, and now has two more retail tenants to offer in addition to a second-floor Equinox health club. According to a press release, a children's retail store called Giggle and a Crumbs Bake Shop (which seems odd given that another Crumbs is located across the street just a few blocks south on Amsterdam, but perhaps it's a relocation?) have signed leases and will move into the Harrison's available ground floor retail space.
Last Thursday, I spent an afternoon out of the office and took some construction progress photos of a number of the LEED projects that we've presented here at gbNYC. I started out on 42nd Street at SJP Properties' LEED Gold hopeful 11 Times Square before heading downtown to Battery Park City's Riverhouse (seeking LEED Platinum) and Goldman Sachs Tower (Gold). We haven't written about it yet (we will) but I finished up with some shots of Related's Robert A.M. Stern-designed Harrison condominium development on 76th and Amsterdam which is aiming for Silver.
Brooklyn-based green building materials and products supplier Green Depot announced yesterday that it will begin construction on a 3,000-square-foot Manhattan showroom at 222 Bowery, between Price and Spring Streets. Designed by architects Studio Mapos, the project should get underway on May 1 and will seek a LEED (presumably under Commercial Interiors) Gold or Platinum rating. Details on specific green features at the showroom are unavailable, but Green Depot will also offer patrons a green resource and design center. Founder and CEO Sarah Beatty called the expansion "significant" and "a fundamental recognition of the growing effort amongst customers to make healthier and more eco-friendly living choices." The project should be completed by November and will be Green Depot's sixth- and largest- showroom to date.
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.
