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80 South Street Assemblage Acquired For $390 Million By Chinese Developer, Financial District

3:00 pm on August 7, 2015 By Reid Wilson

A U.S. subsidiary of Beijing-based China Oceanwide Holdings has made a deal with Howard Hughes Corp. to purchase the development site at 80 South Street, in the Financial District, for $390 million, according to Crain’s. Along with the five-story building at 80 South Street, the assemblage includes the 10-story building at 163 Front Street. The site boasts 820,000 square feet of development rights, with residential space allowed to span 440,000 square feet while the remainder designated for some form of commercial space.

175 Greenwich Street

Construction Update: 175 Greenwich Street aka Three World Trade Center Reaches Halfway Point

8:00 am on August 7, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

The last time we checked on Silverstein’s 175 Greenwich Street (aka Three World Trade Center), work had resumed, and the core had just begun rising again. Now, five months later, the future supertall has just passed the halfway point in its rise. A project insider has sent along several photos, as well as a few snippets of information, including word that the structure is up to the 41st floor (out of 80 total).

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91 Attorney Street, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 91 Attorney Street, Lower East Side

5:00 pm on August 5, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Most streets in the Lower East Side are crammed with 15-foot-wide tenement buildings dating as far back as the 1880s, but the one-block stretch of Attorney Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets was once more industrial, lined on the west side with an old brick factory converted to apartments, a 15-year-old residential building, and a series of crumbling brick garages. Now developer Morris Platt is going to fill a hole where one of those garages was demolished, at 91 Attorney Street, with an eight-story apartment building.

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Landmarks Approves Revised Plan For Former Chase Manhattan Plaza

7:30 am on August 5, 2015 By Evan Bindelglass

A new dawn is coming for a lower Manhattan landmark. With Chase gone, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a proposal for an adaptive reuse of the plaza in front of the building formerly known as One Chase Manhattan Plaza (now 28 Liberty Street since Fosun International Ltd. bought). There will be ground floor retail and major changes to the plaza that should bring a lot of it back to its former glory.

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Landmarks Says No To Design Of Hotel Proposed For 456 Greenwich Street

5:00 pm on August 4, 2015 By Evan Bindelglass

It was in November that the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved altering a 1942 garage building at 456 Greenwich Street (at the corner of Desbrosses Street) and turn it into a restaurant. Well, things have changed and the proposal is now to demolish the existing building and build a hotel that will stretch out of the Tribeca North Historic District.

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