420 Kent Avenue’s 857 New Apartments Nearing Full Completion Along Williamsburg’s East River Waterfront

8:00 am on November 30, 2018 By Michael Young

420 Kent Avenue‘s triplet of glass-covered residential towers rising next to each other along the East River waterfront in Williamsburg are nearing completion, with facade installation nearly finished. Designed by ODA New York and developed by Spitzer Enterprises, recent photos by YIMBY followers show the site’s substantial progress. The development is located to the south of the Williamsburg Bridge, along Kent Avenue between Broadway and South 9th Street.

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City Square, 50 Main Street, White Plains

Ginsburg Development’s “City Square” Revealed at 50 Main Street in White Plains, Westchester

7:00 am on November 30, 2018 By Vanessa Londono

The transformation of White Plains’s former Westchester Financial Center into City Square will be a grand one. The vision for the new mixed-use project by Ginsburg Development Companies includes renovation of Class A office space at 50 Main Street, an addition of 19,540 square feet of restaurant and retail space along Main Street and Martine Avenue, and converting the office building at 1 Martine Avenue into 188 rental units.

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177 Montrose Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Permits Filed for 177 Montrose Avenue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

6:30 am on November 30, 2018 By Vanessa Londono

Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 177 Montrose Avenue. Located between Humboldt Street and Graham Avenue, the interior site is situated in Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg neighborhood. Less than two blocks east is the Montrose subway station serviced by the L train, and the G train to Broadway station is half a mile to the west. Solomon Kubitchek of Zev Kohn is listed as the owner behind the applications.

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Site Work Commences for Bjarke Ingels-Designed “29th & 5th” at 3 West 29th Street in NoMad, Manhattan

8:00 am on November 29, 2018 By Michael Young

Known simply as “29th & 5th,” the site for BIG’s proposed NoMad skyscraper is located at 3 West 29th Street, several blocks south of the Empire State Building, in Midtown Manhattan. The future office tower will eventually rise 34 stories and 551 feet tall, making it stand out amongst the local vicinity. Covering 300,000 square feet, it incorporates a mix of a glass curtain wall on the eastern facade with staggered open terraces for workers to step out and see the views of the skyline. HFZ Capital Group is the developer of the upcoming project.

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