Construction is now topped out at One Grove, a new 12-story residential property in Jersey City. Located at 221 Grove Street in the city’s Liberty Harbor neighborhood, One Grove is the latest project from Strategic Capital, the real estate investment and development platform of China Construction America.
YIMBY captured the recent construction progress on The Bellemont, a topped-out 13-story residential building addressed as 1165 Madison Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects with SLCE Architects as the architect of record and developed by Naftali Group, the ground-up 120-foot-tall reinforced concrete superstructure will yield a total of 67,680 square feet with 12 condominiums and 3,749 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Titanium Construction Services is the general contractor for the mixed-use residential project, which is located at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 86th Street. Compass Development Marketing Group is handling sales and marketing, and Achille Salvagni is the interior designer.
The Empire State Building has joined the race to attract new commercial tenants who demand an amenitized building for the next generation of workers. In an announcement from Empire State Realty Trust, current owners of the iconic property, the building’s amenity offering will be expanded to include a town hall meeting space for up to 400 people, a basketball court, a lounge, food and bar service, and an additional lounge with two golf simulators.
A new affordable housing development has broken ground at 201-207 7th Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan. The nine-story, affordable cooperative building will replace four aging properties at the corner of 22nd street, which are only partially occupied by five residents.
Construction on 310 East 86th Street stands topped out as a 21-story residential tower over the Upper East Side neighborhood of Yorkville. The ground-up project is designed by ODA Architecture with IGI-USA in charge of developing the 145,000-square-foot building. There will be 69 condominiums along with an undisclosed amount of commercial space. Hunter Roberts Construction Group is serving as the general contractor for the mixed-use Manhattan property, which is located between First and Second Avenues and sits directly across from the 86th Street station, servicing the Q train along Second Avenue.
