All Posts Tagged With: "Manhattan"
HSBC Close to Joining Silverstein at LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center
Last June, HSBC announced a five-year, $100 million partnership to address global climate change, agreeing to work with The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund in order to quantify the impact of climate change on the world’s cities, forests, and rivers through extensive field research. Yesterday, sources told GlobeSt.com that the bank is close to continuing its sustainable efforts by leasing 300,000 square feet across seven of the final ten floors available at Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center. Should the deal close, HSBC would likely sell its 500,000-square-foot headquarters tower at 452 Fifth Avenue in Midtown. Asking rents for the final ten floors at 7 WTC are hovering between $75 and $85 per square foot, and HSBC’s deal is rumored to be “at term sheet at the moment.”
30Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Midtown Midsummer Green Lease Update
Although the local real estate market has certainly cooled in the past few months, leasing activity at two of Midtown’s highest profile green commercial projects continues to remain hot. Marathon Asset Management, which agreed to pay $115 per square foot for the 38th and 39th floors at LEED Platinum hopeful Bank of America Tower in early 2007, recently agreed to a 5-year sublet for a portion of its space with Korean financial firm Mirae Asset for $150 per square foot. Although Marathon isn’t the only financial services firm that’s looked to shed space in light of current market conditions, it’s a good sign that demand is still strong for premium Class A space, though whether One Bryant Park’s green features are driving the significant lease premium is obviously pure speculation. Meanwhile, at LEED Gold hopeful, 350,000-square-foot 510 Madison Avenue, only one tenant has signed a lease, albeit at a whopping $150 per square foot.
29Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Upper West Side’s First Green Condo Complete on 72nd Street
We’ve written previously about the Harsen House; the 16-story, 22-unit project at 120 West 72nd Street broke ground in late 2006 and developer Anbau Enterprises sold the project out within a scant seven months. The building was designed by BKSK Architects (designers of the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center, which recently earned Gotham’s first LEED Platinum rating) with interiors by Andres Escobar. Green design elements include hot water radiant heat, FSC-certified oak floors, ducted kitchen hoods which ventilate air directly outdoors, and energy-efficient, floor to ceiling windows. Anbau recently announced that it has completed the 60,000-square-foot project after inking retail heavyweight Sleepy’s (The Mattress Professionals) to a long-term lease for the Harsen House’s 4000-square-foot ground-floor retail space.
21Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
NBBJ Earns Manhattan’s Ninth LEED-CI Rating at 2 Rector Street
Global architecture firm NBBJ recently earned a LEED Silver rating from USGBC for its new New York City offices at 2 Rector Street downtown. The space is the ninth in Manhattan to cop a LEED for Commercial Interiors rating, and joins a number of other design professional spaces that have earned the designation. Three of NBBJ’s five U.S. offices have now earned LEED certification; the firm’s offices downtown occupy 15,917 square feet across the 25th floor of the 80-year-old building. The firm spent over five months reconfiguring its space, and signed a 10-year lease that takes advantage of a number of tax incentives offered to businesses relocating to Lower Manhattan. NBBJ principal Timothy Johnson said that the firm “had to solve the puzzle of taking an 80-year-old building with older infrastructure and making it sustainable.”
18Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
New School to Prepare Students for New York City Green Business Sector
In the fall of 2008, the New School will begin offering a multi-disciplinary program in Environmental Studies. Students may choose to take either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, and each brings its own level of specialization. The new program will be administered by the New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center, which is currently the main area of environmental studies at the university. It will focus on New York City as its laboratory, with a special emphasis on urban ecosystems and sustainable design.
27Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
MKDA Fits Out Offices on 34th Floor of 7 WTC
Architecture firm MKDA recently completed a 3000-square-foot office fit-out for WhenTech, an option pricing, risk management, and software development company, on the 34th floor of LEED Gold-certified 7 World Trade Center. Larry Silverstein has also retained MKDA directly to create two floors of pre-built, incubator offices for small businesses in the tower. MKDA’s design maximizes daylight in the WhenTech space, featuring all-glass doors and windows between individual offices.
25Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Rotating, Self-Powered, Prefab “Dynamic Tower” May Twist into Manhattan
The Dynamic Tower- a 1380-foot, rotating residential high-rise, will break ground in Dubai within a few months, according to Italian architect David Fisher, who discussed details about the project at a press conference today at the Plaza Hotel in Midtown. According to Dr. Fisher, a second Dynamic Tower will soon follow in Moscow with a third to come here in New York City. Although he did not provide specific details, Fisher noted that he is already talking to developers about bringing the concept to Gotham.
24Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
HL23 Litigation, Freedom Tower Up for Grabs, & No Rentals at Toren
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of June 15, 2008, including ongoing litigation in connection with Neil Denari’s HL23 condominium project in Chelsea, the Port Authority listening to bids from the private sector for the Freedom Tower, and Brooklyn’s Toren shooting down rumors that the condo project will turn rental, pointing to its LEED Gold application as a major drawing card for potential purchasers.
22Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Kimball Office Showroom Earns LEED-CI Certified Rating at 215 Park Avenue
Kimball Office has received New York City’s latest LEED for Commercial Interiors (”LEED-CI”) rating, copping the Certified designation from USGBC. Its 12,000-square-foot showroom at 215 Park Avenue South was designed in cooperation with TVS Interiors. The showroom officially opened back in January and features a number of sustainable design features ranging from 75 percent recycled construction debris to low-VOC, local, and recycled-content materials, low-flow plumbing, and energy-efficient appliances.
18Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Exhibition Profiling Neil Denari’s HL23 Opens at Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition profiling the construction of Neil Denari’s HL23 condominium project on the High Line opened to the public earlier this evening. Called “New York Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds on the High Line,” the exhibition will remain open at the museum (located at 1220 Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street) through September, featuring models and renderings of the development along with historic shots of the High Line.
16Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Daredevil Scales Times Tower “In Honor” of World Environment Day
Unfurling a banner reading “global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week,” daredevil climber Alain Robert ascended the 52-story New York Times Tower on 8th Avenue yesterday and was arrested upon reaching the top. Robert later claimed that he chose the tower for his climb because of its green features; the stunt was performed on the United Nations’ World Environment Day.
6Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Green Construction Booming in Manhattan (Photos)
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. As you’ll see, steel at 11 Times Square is well out of the ground and lagging just a few floors behind the tower’s concrete core.
2Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Condo Project from Barry Rice Breaks Ground at 180 East 93rd Street
Designed by Barry Rice Architects, Greystone Property Development’s 180 East 93rd Street broke ground last week and joins a growing crop of green condo projects on the Upper East Side (including the Laurel, Lucida, and Observatory Place). The condominiums will feature a number of green design features, including a geothermal heating and cooling system. The nine-unit development will rise on the south side of East 93rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, though it’s unclear whether the team will seek any sort of third-party certification for its efforts.
1Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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